https://www.bevshawteacherwritermusician.com/home daily 1.0 2020-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f147f0a59259a47cf74d4e7/1597105044409-58U2E4OXPVRW1BTX7KS2/image-asset.jpeg Home - French Lessons/Tutoring K-6 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f147f0a59259a47cf74d4e7/1597095134125-QALRGA4JV6U6DO9MB7VQ/DSC03824.jpg Home - Violin Lessons/Music Theory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f147f0a59259a47cf74d4e7/1597095230011-TA5T2JJWM8QRHLCDR029/DSC03840.jpg Home - Fiction Writing/Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f147f0a59259a47cf74d4e7/1597095263200-YH1XJ8SMOYHU81WIQ808/12059336_10153971859736992_1889847613_o.jpg Home Performing https://www.bevshawteacherwritermusician.com/aboutbev daily 0.75 2024-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f147f0a59259a47cf74d4e7/1598129320245-B8M3QLU9QNTZFY7AQBA3/About+Bev1.jpg About Bev Bev has over twenty years’ experience as a teacher, published writer, and musician. Her teaching qualifications include Suzuki violin teacher training and RCM violin training, a Master of Arts in French Language and Literature, TEFL certification in teaching English as a foreign language, and training in Waldorf Education. Working in the arts as a writer and musician has given her a unique insight into the learning process. Her experience as a Waldorf School class teacher and day care assistant to children with special needs has equipped her to go above and beyond traditional teaching methods. 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Bev is a Suzuki trained violin teacher and an experienced class music teacher. Her career’s main focus has been classical violin and Suzuki pedagogy. She has also enjoyed exploring Canadian and Celtic fiddle styles with Gordon Stobbe, Kelly Trottier, Eilidh Buchanan and others. Bev has taught violin and fiddle at the Nova Scotia Suzuki Summer Institute, Buchanans House of Music, and the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival, as well as classroom music at the South Shore Waldorf School, where she started a violin program for children in Grades 4 to 6. . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f147f0a59259a47cf74d4e7/1598129507333-9XYUE9MYI343WUL75DXJ/Website+French.jpg Services French Instruction Bev offers both online and in-person French instruction. She has tutored French privately for many years, helping students achieve entrance into French schools, pass the DELF French language exam, and improve their conversational skills for fun. She has also taught French at the South Shore Waldorf School, and has worked as a French language pre-school and music teacher at École de la Rive Sud, now the Centre Scolaire de la Rive Sud. She has an M.A. in French from Dalhousie University and studied in Angers, France, for part of her undergraduate degree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f147f0a59259a47cf74d4e7/1597098775956-PQNOYDRTPPWQAIPI57S3/image-asset.jpeg Services - English Language and Literacy Bev offers both online and in-person English language tutoring to both native and non-native speakers. She is TEFL certified to teach English as a foreign language. She has extensive experience teaching reading and writing to native speakers, having taught English as a core subject to Waldorf School students, Grades 1 to 6, and worked with special needs children in school and daycare settings. Her experience as a writer and editor has qualified her to provide language and literacy help to high school students and adults. She particularly enjoys working one-on-one with students, tailoring her lesson plans to suit individual needs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f147f0a59259a47cf74d4e7/1597537277041-H3WXZII0TZ6AYIV7LT6Q/image-asset.jpeg Services Writing/Editing Bev’s first novel, Undertow, published by Galleon Books in the fall of 2025, earned her a Creation Grant from Arts Nova Scotia, as well as a spot as an apprentice writer in the Writers’ Federation of Nova' Scotia’s Alistair MacLeod Mentorship Program. 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