Olga Tcherviakova, author of Spanish 1 has taught Spanish at levels One, Three, Four, and Five at Nazareth Area High School in Nazareth, Pennsylvania for five years. As an author of the Spanish 1 book, Ms. Tcherviakova intends to equip teachers with a clearly structured material covering all the beginner grammar topics in depth and allowing for the immediate development of speaking skills. Originally from Minsk, Belarus, Olga taught English at the Suvorov Military School and two public schools in Minsk for two years and tutored Spanish and English privately for five years. She is a graduate of the Minsk State Linguistic University. She majored in Spanish, while earning her Master’s Degree in Teacher Education. While a student at the university, Olga spent her summer 1997 in Andalucia, Spain in the capacity of a monitor, translator, and interpreter for the children from radiation contaminated regions near Chernobyl. Olga is fluent in four languages other than Spanish. These languages are Belarusian, English, French, and Russian. Along with being fluent in five languages, Olga is capable of comprehending six other languages. Olga utilized her multilingual skills in 2001 – 2003, when she taught English to adult immigrants at the Adult Literacy Center of the Lehigh Valley at the beginner and advanced levels. Ms. Tcherviakova was acknowledged in the 2003, 2004, and 2005 editions of Who’s Who among America’s Teachers and featured in local TV and newspaper editions several times. Olga Tcherviakova is dedicated to her work and devotes a lot of her free time to students. She encourages her students to work to their maximum potential, just as she does.
