The Future of Education

I began my career as an international ESL Teacher in Mexico City in 2008, one year after graduating from The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA): I began my career teaching Business English to managers of international corporations in Mexico City; this was followed by teaching high school students at a private university. In the Summer of 2009 I received a contract to teach at The Princeton Review in Seoul, South Korea: I taught American literature to elementary school students and SSAT test preparation to middle school students: since leaving South Korea in 2009, I have taught for a variety of education organizations in both The United States and Mexico: In addition to being an ESL Teacher, I am a classically-trained opera singer and theater-trained actor: I have incorporated my classical music and theater training into my teaching practice: language is communication: communication can be delivered with either sound or silence. Music is a language. Music is comprised of sounds and silence. Languages have unique sounds: we group sounds together to create words: we group words together to make sentences. In music, there are rhythmic patterns; in foreign languages, there are also rhythmic patterns. We can produce rhythmic patterns by clapping our hands. We can tap our legs. We can tap our head. We can tap our chest. When I learn a piece of classical music, I have to get the music into my body: the rhythmic patterns. When we learn a foreign language, we have to get the language into our bodies: the rhythmic patterns. Over the years I have incorporated my training in both music and theater into my teaching practice: I have taught all ages: elementary school; middle school; and high school: I specialize in Adult ESL students, Beginner-level to Pre-Intermediate.