About me |
If you can read, you can do almost anything in life. My motto: "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
I have 30 years of experience teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) at East Lansing Trinity Church, MSU International Programs (CVIP), I've taught privately and abroad in China. I've taught refugees and students of all ages and professionals.
EDUCATION:
Sociology/SW * 2013 * NMU, cum laude
Legal Assistant * 1994 * LCC, magna cum laude
Certified TESOL Instructor * 1998 * Canadian Global Training Institute
I've developed curriculum for illiterate refugees (Pre-literacy through Low-Intermediate)
I've presented my programs at ESL Conferences and Workshops. These have been at Cornerstone University, and the International TESOL conference in Seattle. |
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Students, I will enroll you in order to track your progress. Maybe you need help, so don't be afraid to ask. Email: word2power4u@gmail.com
To enroll, please send: First and Last Name, email address, and phone #. Then I will enroll you in a class. Please keep your login information ID or Password a secret. SO, log out when finished.
The material will be easy for some and a littler harder for others. Skip ahead to find your comfort level and to start building your skills at that place. Student information is meant to be private.
There are short stories in the Reading Comprehension quizzes that have 8-12 questions. Submit your answers and you will get immediate feed back on how well you've done. When you answer all the questions fast and easy, you know you are ready to take the next quiz. It's good to find where you are comfortable. These exercises range from 3rd grade to college level.
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'[L]iteracy is still about dignity and freedom. When we forget this, we are in real trouble.
That's why it was so shocking to learn that rates of improvement in young people's literacy have slowed down disturbingly since 2006 and that a quarter of children and young people do not see any connection between reading and success or stability in their lives. Yet the figures clearly show the correlations between inadequate literacy and a variety of social ills - unemployment, lack of a stable family life, and, significantly, apathy about voting. The percentage of functionally illiterate people in our prisons (nearly 50 per cent) tells its own story.
More worrying still are the figures for young people in London. One in three children does not own a book. One in four leaves primary school with a substandard level of literacy.
Part of the problem is that illiteracy is surrounded by shame and stigma, so that people are unwilling to ask for help. As with any potentially humiliating difficulty or disability, the first step is for society as a whole to take a positive, not a contemptuous, approach and not to blame people who have been let down because of poverty or exclusion or struggling institutions." (London Evening Standard - "What are dignity and freedom without literacy?" June 7, 2011.) |
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