Many students who want to learn English cannot drive to another location for classes. Premiere provides teachers who can go to the students' places of business or homes for intensive ESL studies.

Currently and for the past 6 months, I have been teaching the most advanced levels at BEI. It is such a pleasure to teach Advanced English grammar to these smart students from Africa (Angola, Congo, Senegal, Mali and more), South America (usually Brazil and Venezuela), various regions in China, Viet Nam, and Saudia Arabia. I enjoy helping these students prepare for University or their career, and also enjoy learning from them about their countries and cultures. At these high levels, the students usually can converse very easily and have an excellent vocabulary. One of my goals is to help them be able to write with the same ease and fluency as they speak. Another goal is to continue improving their ability to pronounce words in American English, and further, to understand when an American is asking them a complicated question. English is so very complex. They deserve congratulations for achieving these high levels of competency.

Assist advanced English speakers to improve their pronunciation in an American accent. Working with adults from Venezuela, Angola, Oman, Libya, Japan and China to improve their fluency and become more natural in their speaking ability.

What a great experience I am having teaching ESL to adults from all over the world. The Bilingual Education Institute offers corporate and privately-paid classes and has an extensive refugee program funded by government and private grants. I teaching evening and day-time classes. My classes are filled with a mixture of people from Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iran, Iraq, and Turkey, plus China, Korea and Japan. I always have students from Mexico and many countries in Africa and South America. I also teach private lessons for Premiere Language, a wonderful company that primarily works with companies from Mexico.I teach all levels--from pre-Beginning to Advanced. I've been focusing this past year on the Advanced Levels since my Master's Degree in Professional Writing is helpful for these students. It is quite a wonderful work.

Responsible for preparing written & detailed lesson plans that fit with the syllabus provided by the Institute.Research and use learning tools in addition to the textbooks provided. This includes using the internet (often YouTube), using online games and tests, TED talks appropriate to the topics, and supplemental instructional information from other text books and online searches.Tailor the class instruction to the specific needs of each student.Hold regular group conversations to improve listening and discussion capabilities of the students.Teach and grade reading, writing, grammar, listening and speaking skills, as well as idioms, practicing pronunciation, and understanding metaphors and inferences.Administer tests, record grades & attendance in a database, attend staff meetings, and assist students in understanding the application process to a college or university in the U.S.Teach private classes for Accent Reduction (improving an American accent). Work with professionals who have retained an accent that makes it difficult for other people to understand them. I use various text books and online resources to assist them in recognizing problem areas in their speech and making appropriate corrections.

Assist adults in businesses and in homes to communicate in English. Work with students of all ages to learn English grammar and vocabulary, and write essays & business papers, and prepare for exams. Advise intermediate-level English speakers with accent reduction and understanding idiomatic (slang) expressions.

As a Master Naturalist, I have learned how to be more scientific about what I see. I identify the correct names for the birds I photograph and I often post about them on the Fauna blog. It turns out I have had some amazing experiences (inadvertently) with snakes and have posted a few times about these encounters.

In addition to writing for QuiltMania magazine (published in France), I am also running 3 blogs now. See the latest posting at: http://naturexplored.com/2012/05/27/look-see-observe-examine/

Teach English as a Second Language (ESL) to international adult and teenage students. This includes native speakers of Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Chinese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, and Amharic. The programs offered by BEI that I have taught includes 9-week/5 hours x 4days, evening classes 7-9, and Saturday classes from 9-12. The classes will include mixed nationalities and therefore mixed languages; English being the only language spoken in class. It is possible to start a course at the Pre-Beginner level and proceed through Level 7. TOEFL preparation classes are also offered. Private classes are also available to coordinate with the student's time allowance.

Consult with clients who have extensive collections and want to have them catalogued, photographed, listed, and/or memoralized

Managed the nonprofit org with 5 employees that exhibited contemporary art, offered frequent events for the public, had an art education program for chldren & adults & taught art classes, also allowed other arts orgs to use the space

Managed the 225-acre complex of antique buildings, barns, dorms, and other facilitiesMember of the Executive Committee of the Center of American History, UT-Austin & reported to the Executive Director

selected quilts with the assistance of other sme's to exhibit at the Center and other places, such as the International Quilt Festival in Houston and in Long Beach, CA.

Responsible for planning and presenting art exhibits in the 20,000 sq. feet of exhibition galleries and performances in the black box theatre space.

Assisted Chief Designer and collegues with installations of new office modules. Liaised with Preparators and Curators on installation schedules.