FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
If the student has to travel to me from a long distance, I will take five dollars per lesson off my price.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
First I do what I call a "baseline". I ask questions to my customer regarding their desires for their goals. After that, I ask for a brief background of who they are and get a sense of their personality, and most importantly I find out their educational background. Next, I see what scholastic level they will be on going forward. After that, I look for the proper educational tools that I will use with them. Then we can begin the learning process, through speech and study.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I have studied at Skidmore College, a former Seven Sister to the Ivy Leagues ( until it went co-ed in the 1970's) where I earned a 3.9 out of a possible 4.0 my first semester; I am a graduate of the National Theatre Institute, an immersive college program at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in Connecticut, where I studied the gamut of English and American playwrights; I went to Douglass College at Rutgers University and took French classes as part of my schoolwork, because I lived in the French House on campus; and also spent 5 weeks traveling in France and studying French Government, the French language, and Art History at the Sorbonne in Paris. I have also traveled extensively---to Denmark and Norway; Colombia, South America; and on bicycle as a teenager, through Benelux, France, Scotland and England. I am very open-minded culturally. I possess two degrees, one in Theatre, for which I graduated cum laude, and a second degree in French, for which I have been honored with three certificates of a 3.0 or above G.P.A. per semester. My final G.P.A. for my French degree was a 3.3. Additionally, I was the Early Learner Specialist in our local Kumon Tutoring Center for three years. I worked with children up to the age of seven in English and Math, and graded their work.