• Education:

CE of Spanish, attaining CEAS for Spanish with Monmouth University.

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design (University of the Arts, Philadelphia)

Bridge the Gap Certification, Simultaneous translation in Medical field. ○

• Experience:

18 years as a Spanish teacher in private schools (ages 2- 13 yr old) and professional adults.

6 years as business owner of a Language Learning Program.

4 years as Spanish teacher for Bellmawr School District

• Philosophy of Teaching:

Being a World Language teacher provides me with a unique opportunity to broaden students’ views, giving students tools to shape a future where global awareness will impact all aspects of a community, near and far. When students successfully learn a target language and the intercultural communication needed to be part of today’s social, environmental, and economic changing world it creates a more flexible, accepting and inclusive global citizen. I believe that exposing students to cultures different from their own, while encouraging them to identify similarities and differences that shape each culture, will give them an academic advantage thereby strengthening problem solving, deduction and strategies useful in other subject areas ○

• Native Spanish speaker. Born in Havana, Cuba, lived in Mexico D.F. (Mexico) and in Bogota (Colombia). Proud mother of two engineer daughters, and one very vocal toddler granddaughter. Love nature walks, indoor gardening, foreign movies and reading novels in Spanish.