Demystifying Multiplication Facts for Older Learners!

I love teaching elementary school students to enjoy math, reading, and writing.  I also am passionate about maps,  Greek Mythology, and looking at art.  
A teacher with 25 years of public-school classroom experience, I came to teaching with prior formative experiences in theater, dance, and art.   I studied art history at Columbia University where I received a Ph.D. in 1992.  I worked as an art historian teaching at the college level and was a writer for the Departments of Sculpture and Manuscripts at the Getty Center Museum in Los Angeles, CA when it first opened.   I still am very involved in art, theater, and dance, and feel that they inform all I do.  
My learning philosophy is based on two observations I have made over the course of my teaching career.
1.  Learning is active.  We build knowledge on a foundation of experiences and prior learnings, which is different for each of us.   Learners must actively engage with the material to incorporate it into their own knowledge systems.   This includes activities we traditionally associate with learning such as listening, explaining, questioning, responding, reading, and writing.  It also includes creating, playing, drawing, dramatizing, and moving.
2.  Learning is social.  Especially in this time of online learning and isolation from our wider communities, we all crave social interaction!  Being with others increases engagement.  I truly believe that our  ideas and skills are built by hearing others, responding to them, and having them hear and respond to us.
I look forward to working with your child!