Nicole
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My classes and lessons are communicative designed that is geared towards intermediate and advanced students. If you are up to a casual conversation and want to learn more about culture this is the best place to be, but do work on public speaking and communication skills. I am not taking any beginner level at the moment. I have a background in general and special education, specifically, history, biology, English, Spanish and communications (public speaking and advertisement) from Teacher's College, Columbia University and Brooklyn College. Growing up in the suburbs of NYC and the Caribbean have exposed me to different lifestyles and philosophies around the world. Starting to work under a family business at the age of 12, I learned to put together a telecommunications company to enhance the village life of an African based culture. This journey introduced me to a new world of politics and languages amongst their cultural aspects that enhanced the perspective of the importance of learning languages with their culture. Variation brings superiority, as the USA Founding Fathers speak of in their foundational laws. If you have any questions, as mentioned, please feel free to get in touch with any questions and we can plan the appropriate lesson.
Being a USA and Honduran citizen who has been educated at the top institutions has allowed me to travel and experience around the world. Growing up in the telecommunications and insurance industry, I continued to work and study in them throughout my university years. Reaching diversity ambassador status, I continued onto policy work in insurance, but changed to education to further my vision. Other than traveling, museums, sports, parks, learning of the local cultural norms, and hiking to take in nature and its beauty amongst the chaotic visions of "ce la vie" (this is life) are amongst my favorite things to do. As mentioned, learning different cultures is a hobby of mine, and so teaching the English culture from different angles is something I enjoy doing as I also learn from my students. This fulfills the anthropology aspect of my education career. Bringing these experiences to make a difference for the future has been the objective growing up to be a lawyer. Through this, the goal is to help policy makers in creating an effective education system.
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Communicative and feedback based. Class tends to be discussion based, but can create activities that bring in all four language skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening. The objective is to improve public speaking and overachieve listening skills as there are various forms of English accents and idioms.