Irina Shuvalova
Specialist with a Higher Education Degree · English Translator · Teaching Assistant, Elementary School (Virginia)
Irina Viktorovna Shuvalova completed professional retraining in Methods of Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language to Children at the Russian Language Training Center in Moscow. She works as a teaching assistant in the elementary grades at a school in Virginia.
"I love working with children. Teaching is my calling. For many years, I've worked with children of different ages who speak two, three, and sometimes even four languages. A person's ability to master several languages is a remarkable thing. That said, raising a bilingual child in a multilingual family isn't easy — it's often genuinely difficult. But it's possible! I know this for certain, both as a teacher and as a mother. I'm convinced that every child is naturally talented and deeply curious. Turning complicated things into simple ones is my main job as an educator."