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Frau/ Sra. Kopaz
It has been my privilege to teach the children from the Upper St. Clair community since 1999. I look forward each year to sharing my love of languages, people & culture with my students. I hope that my students will love languages as much as I do and share their excitement in experiencing a new culture at home!
I speak German, Spanish & Italian and have taken a little Chinese as well!
I earned a bachelor’s degree in German at Duquesne University and a Master’s Degree in Teaching and Spanish certification at the University of Pittsburgh. I spent a semester abroad studying in Firenze (Florence) Italy at Centro Linguistico Dante Alighieri, a summer at Cuahnáhuac in Cuernavaca, México, a summer at the University of Bonn, Germany & 2 weeks at the Colegio de España, Alicante, Spain. I worked for one summer at Bayer in Leverkusen, Germany.
I enjoy traveling & have traveled throughout Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, México & Japan. I taught German 1-3 and Spanish 1 in the Pittsburgh Public Schools and then began teaching at USC in 1999.
At USC, I have taught 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th grade German , German 1, Passport to German, German 2 & German 3 and 6th, 7th & 8th grade Spanish as well as Introduction to Spanish, Spanish 1, Intermediate Spanish & Spanish 2.
In addition to teaching, I also help to coordinate both the Spanish and German (Gapp) exchanges. I co-sponsor German club and in the summers I teach at a local Language Camp.
