\u00a1Bienvenidos! I am originally from Puerto Rico. I received my B.S. Degree in Business Administration with a major in Organizational Studies from the University of Puerto Rico. I went on to earn an M.A. Degree in Romance Languages with a concentration in Spanish Literature from The University of Memphis. I have been a part-time faculty member at Bellevue College since the summer of 2002. Before that, I worked as a full-time Instructor of Spanish, undergraduate advisor in Spanish, and a member of the Annual Language Fair at The University of Memphis. I have over 16 years of teaching experience and this includes several schools and community colleges. I have taught beginning, intermediate level, Honors Spanish,\u00a0\u00a0 and composition Spanish courses including Medical Spanish. I also facilitate a weekly Spanish Table to encourage conversational Spanish.<\/p>\n
My primary purpose as a Spanish Instructor is to have students interact with me in Spanish. I believe this is the key to effective language instruction.\u00a0 I expose students to a variety of activities that will help them achieve competency in Spanish through the five language skills i.e. reading, writing, speaking, listening, and culture awareness. I teach them to be open-minded to different cultures. Ultimately, I aim to enable students to express themselves in the target language taught in a safe and relaxed environment.<\/p>\n
In my free time, I enjoy outdoor walking and spending time with my husband and daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1276,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-787","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/worldlanguages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/worldlanguages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/worldlanguages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/worldlanguages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/worldlanguages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/worldlanguages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/787\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/worldlanguages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/worldlanguages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}