August 2023
Dear AAO families,
I hope you have enjoyed a wonderful summer and are excited for the beginning of the 2023-2024 school year! We have a fantastic year ahead of us.
My hopes and dreams for this school year are to immerse our students in the Spanish language and cultures as much as possible and to make this experience enjoyable for them through stories, games, skits, communicative and hands-on activities, celebrations and sharing.
I love teaching this beautiful language. Learning languages is a true passion of mine! I always say that my romance with languages began in Middle School, when I studied German and dreamed of visiting West Germany one day just like my mom did, when I was four years old.
Later, I went to a French Immersion High School. After graduating from college in Bulgaria with a B.A in French and Bulgarian Language and Literature, I taught Bulgarian and French for several years at the middle and high school level. In addition I completed two years of a three year master's degree program of Teaching English as a Second Language at Plovdiv University, Bulgaria.
I came to the United States in 2005 and continued my language studies at EMU by adding a Spanish K-12 endorsement to my teaching certificate. I also completed a Spanish program in Avila, Spain in 2008.
I am excited to share that I will be starting graduate school again this fall and I will be working on a Master's degree in TESOL (Teaching English to Students of Other Languages), which is part of the GYO program at AAPS.
I am very grateful for the privilege to teach in our wonderful school. This is my thirteenth year of teaching at AAO and I am looking forward to another terrific school year!
If you have a special skill or knowledge regarding the Spanish language or the countries where Spanish is spoken, and would like to present or volunteer in our classroom, please let me know!
Dear AAO families,
I hope you have enjoyed a wonderful summer and are excited for the beginning of the 2023-2024 school year! We have a fantastic year ahead of us.
My hopes and dreams for this school year are to immerse our students in the Spanish language and cultures as much as possible and to make this experience enjoyable for them through stories, games, skits, communicative and hands-on activities, celebrations and sharing.
I love teaching this beautiful language. Learning languages is a true passion of mine! I always say that my romance with languages began in Middle School, when I studied German and dreamed of visiting West Germany one day just like my mom did, when I was four years old.
Later, I went to a French Immersion High School. After graduating from college in Bulgaria with a B.A in French and Bulgarian Language and Literature, I taught Bulgarian and French for several years at the middle and high school level. In addition I completed two years of a three year master's degree program of Teaching English as a Second Language at Plovdiv University, Bulgaria.
I came to the United States in 2005 and continued my language studies at EMU by adding a Spanish K-12 endorsement to my teaching certificate. I also completed a Spanish program in Avila, Spain in 2008.
I am excited to share that I will be starting graduate school again this fall and I will be working on a Master's degree in TESOL (Teaching English to Students of Other Languages), which is part of the GYO program at AAPS.
I am very grateful for the privilege to teach in our wonderful school. This is my thirteenth year of teaching at AAO and I am looking forward to another terrific school year!
If you have a special skill or knowledge regarding the Spanish language or the countries where Spanish is spoken, and would like to present or volunteer in our classroom, please let me know!
