Teaching
Teaching Experience
I am currently substitute teaching at Campbell Hall, one of Los Angeles's -and Hollywood's top K-12 schools. It feels good working again with kids. I am flattered that many bring their friends to my classes rather than sit in a study hall. I make learning whatever I am teaching, fun, relevant and challenging. I also foster participation in such a manner that the kids are huge contributors to my -our- classes. We all have fun and we all learn. I have also been taken up on my offer to work as a substitute-facilitator running many various other types of classes per teacher instructions, for middle school, junior high and the high school. I love and enjoy kids of all ages. Somehow, I find I can relate to them and they appreciate and respond to my efforts. It is very satisfying. In this very special school, I have the pleasure of working with many of Hollywood's very succfessful and best known young actors.
I started teaching as a grad student on fellowships at University of Connecticut, and Boston College. Later I became part time faculty in many of Boston's finest teaching institutions. I have over 10 years of university level teaching experience teaching university level French from 1977 - 1988 as described below. With additional teaching experience as a corporate trainer from 1997-2005 which gives me a total of about 19 years of teaching. As a corporate trainer, I wrote custom instructional materials, quick references and PowerPoint training presentations on how to run various customized business software packages. As a Y2K trainer (for migrations to new software for post 2000), I also wrote and taught computer basics about Microsoft PC operating systems and the basics about MS office products such as Word, Outlook and Lotus Notes. As a corporate trainer I was responsible for teaching thousands of staff, and always got rave reviews with great appreciation.
My Studies and Teaching
Boston College,
While on a Teaching Fellowship working on my PhD (incomplete) I taught French language classes.
University of Connecticut,
While on a Teaching Fellowship working on my Masters, I taught French language classes.
My Teaching Experience as Part Time Faculty in Boston, MA
I concurrently taught various classes as part time faculty at these top Boston schools from 1980-1988 based on school needs while pursuing my Doctoral studies at Boston College . My classes always had waiting lists and students gave me great evaluations. I conducted all my classes entirely in French and I planned French cultural related outings
Boston College
Boston University
Northeastern University
Simmons College
Boston Conservatory
Education
Masters Degree , University of Connecticut , Storrs , Connecticut
• French Language and Education
• 10 year Teaching Certification to teach inConnecticut high schools
Bachelor of Arts , American College In Paris , France
• French
• Philosophy/Psychology (my 2nd Major-was actually more Eastern and Western Philosophy)
• Pre-Med Biology (took college chemistry in high school; was considering a degree science and technology)
• Art
• International Relations
Professional Certifications
French Language Certificates, Sorbonne, Paris, France
Web Design, Development, and Web Management classes at Cal State University Northridge
Web Design & Development; & Web Management Certificate -With Distinction, CSUN
PhD Studies (Incomplete) and Teaching
PhD preparations in Medieval Studies (incomplete) Boston College with a Teaching Fellowship
(The first three were my official 3 choices, but I took other classes before I decided on those.)
- Old French,
- Old Italian
- Provincial French
- German for Reading
- Some Old Spanish (very similar to French)
- Some Old English (for the Canterbury Tales)
- Critical Analysis
- Semantics, Grammar, Phonetics
Foreign Language Skill
- French Language Written and Spoken Native Proficiency
- Previously Assistant to French Attaché in Boston for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the French Embassy, Boston, MA, 1979-82
- Portfolio of legal, scientific, industrial translations (English to French or French to English) available upon request.
