37 years teaching Gr. 7-12, college, and university: social studies, Spanish, English, ESL, humanities; published Spanish and ESL grammar books; court-appointed interpreter for murder trial; translator
interactive lectures in Humanities; critical thinking; conversational Spanish
Lambda Theta award for Spanish; innovation in curriculum design; 3 mini-grants to develop materials for "Voyages of Discovery: Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Spain; NEH fellowship for research in Egypt; Mellon Fellow with Tulane University to study a summer in Mexico City
B.A. in Spanish and history -- Case Western Reserve Univ, M.A. in Spanish CWRU, grad work in English Lit at University of Florida and Florida State Univ. and Latin American Studies; junior year at the Universidad de Madrid; summer at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico
Love to travel, photograph, and research abroad. Plan to turn travel journals info into Social Studies culture modules. Play Mah-jong and crochet. Interested in archeology.
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool, Staff, Not Grade Specific
English Language Arts, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Arithmetic, Fractions, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Other (Math), Science, Anatomy, Archaeology, Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment, Other (Science), Social Studies, Ancient History, U.S. History, European History, World History, World Languages, French, Spanish, Latin, Italian, German, Chinese, Other (World Language), Arts & Music, Art History, Drama, ESL-EFL-ELL, Health, Other (Specialty), ELA Test Prep, Geography, Other (Social Studies), Other (ELA), Religion, Critical Thinking, Arabic, For All Subjects, Literature, Economics , Word Problems, Study Skills, General Science, Cooking, Short Stories, Writing, Asian Studies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Presidents' Day, St. Patrick's Day