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Awards
and Honors:
Who's
Who in American Colleges and Universities; Regent's Gold Medal for excellence
in the study of Spanish, G.U.; Spanish Embassy Commendation for excellence
in Spanish; Recipient of Ford Foundation Fellowship to pursue M.S./Ph.D.
at GU; Consultant to Western Electric on Black English; Wrote the standards
manual for hiring foreign language teachers for Peace Corps.
My wife,
two children and I have been residents of the Tuscarora feeder area for
more than 20 years. I have been an active member of local community groups
over the years and have watched the area change and grow.
I look forward
to bringing to bear the full array of my education, talents and experience
to help every student who is motivated to learn to achieve at the highest
level of his or her potential. I have studied and lived in Spain, Germany
and France, and I have traveled elsewhere in Europe as well as Mexico.
Twenty years of experience in management, advertising and sales, have
helped enhance and complement the very fine education I was fortunate
enough to receive in the discipline of foreign languages. I have worked
with students from 8 to 68 in a variety of venues. There are perhaps no
learning contingencies that I have not faced somewhere, sometime, in my
broad range of experience. I have done original field work in phonology,
taught elementary, middle and high school students, as well as adults
at the college level and in professional language training schools, and
I have produced teaching materials in languages as disparate as Laotian
and Spanish.
I have a
talent for creating a non-threatening learning environment for students,
and I go to school every day with the belief and firm conviction that
I can teach any student who wants to learn and puts forth the effort.
High school is the vestibule of life. I treat students as young adults
and expect them to assume the responsibility necessary for them to learn
so that they may become productive members of society in that short time
frame from high school freshman to senior.
My educational
philosophy is embodied in a statement by a college French professor of
mine that needs no improvement:
"A
student is not a vase you fill, he is a flame you ignite."
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