I grew up in the United States, but am currently living in Zürich, Switzerland. I have a bachelor's degree in linguistics and Spanish, though I've since fallen in love with German & Italian. In my free time, I enjoy salsa dancing, growing vegetables, traveling by train, and hiking in the mountains.
Ich als Lehrkraft
I started out my professional career as a corporate educator for an company that makes electronic medical records. Since then, I've been a Spanish tutor for school students, a bilingual storytime leader for young children, and an ESL teacher for adults, an EFL teacher at a primary school, and I'm currently working as an English teacher at a secondary school.
Meine Stunden und mein Unterrichtsstil
I believe that language education should be enjoyable, relevant, and effective. I like to use authentic materials such as news articles, short texts, podcasts, videos, etc.
I think it's very helpful when mistakes are gently corrected. This way, the same mistake isn't made over and over again without knowing that it's incorrect. That's what makes having a teacher worth your time and money.
I create a virtually shared document for all of my students so that they can have a record of our lessons with all of the corrections and new vocabulary. This document doubles as a useful tool for making flashcards.
Want to escalate your English speaking confidence, just book with Marissa, she is just an amazing person and tutor to chitchat with and of course to have your mistakes corrected in a brilliant systematic way.
Thumb up for you Teaach 👍🏼
24. Juni 2021
Maddalena Rosa
71 Englisch Unterrichtsstunden
Auswahl der Lehrkraft
Excellent preparation and support. My
children love the lessons with Marissa.
16. Apr. 2021
Anastasia
2 Englisch Unterrichtsstunden
I enjoyed my first lesson with Marissa, liked her way of speaking and her art of teaching in such a short timeperiod! Thank you very much!
4. Feb. 2022
Tina
64 Englisch Unterrichtsstunden
Auswahl der Lehrkraft
Marissa is a very attentive, supporting and patient teacher. Although she is not a certified English teacher, I have learnt a lot during our conversation lessons and I am getting more and more confident in speaking English. I am always looking forward to our next lessons. 😊
21. Juni 2021
Olga Alexandra
26 Englisch Unterrichtsstunden
Marissa is an excellent teacher with great patience, who is able to motivate a lot. I’m very grateful to have found her as my communication partner and I’m looking forward to our next lessons.
16. Feb. 2022
ana klimova
5 Englisch Unterrichtsstunden
As always, had a really exciting lesson with Marissa! The way we start a discussion about one topic, and later it very smoothly evolves into something else - amazes me. So much more than just a usual English lesson