She also taught them to sing `` I wish I could shimmy like my sister Kate ''.

She had taught classes in botany, astronomy ( with the aid of a telescope ), geometry, and psychology.

She bound Andrew as a boy as an apprentice tailor ; Johnson had no formal education but taught himself how to read and write, with some help from his masters, as was their obligation under his apprenticeship.

She taught her husband arithmetic up to basic algebra and tutored him to improve his literacy, reading, and writing skills.

She intermittently took classes at Portland State University studying English, as well as San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Art Institute, where she took a film class taught by George Kuchar and starred in one of his short films.

She was also taught domestic skills, such as needlepoint, lace-making, embroidery, music and dancing.

She once described him as a teacher " that could have taught the stones to draw correctly.

She taught a one-quarter seminar on writing about science.

She taught herself German out of books and practised piano.

She taught for five years at Bickley, Surbiton and Chessington, writing in her spare time.

She was a classics major at Scripps College, worked for the Delta Ministry in 1965 and taught at Howard University School of Religion from 1966 to 1976.

She then taught for three years at John F. Kennedy Elementary School, a Houston Independent School District school in Houston, until 1972.

She taught at The New School and Columbia University, where she was an adjunct professor from 1954 to 1978.

She founded and taught at the Columbia Religious and Industrial School for Jewish Girls.

" She believed that children were born persons and should be respected as such ; they should also be taught the Way of the Will and the Way of Reason.

She taught first at Eunice Kenyon's Friends ' Seminary, and then at the Canajoharie Academy in 1846, where she rose to become headmistress of the Female Department.

She taught in Mississippi and Tennessee before going to Tuskegee to work.

She was also taught archery, falconry, horseback riding, and hunting.

She performed her own stunts and was taught martial arts by Bruce Lee.

She was the daughter of prosperous surgeon Dr. Prosper Malapert, who owned a private practice in Poitiers and taught anatomy at the University of Poitiers ' School of Medicine.

She found herself continuing her education in Germany, being taught by Archbishop Bruno of Trier.

She then taught kindergarten for four years.

She was the eldest of four children and was taught to always share with the less fortunate, despite her family ’ s meagre earnings.

She educated all her sons and in particular taught her human sons the art of war, helping them to fashion and use weapons.

" She has taught at the University of British Columbia ( 1965 ), Sir George Williams University in Montreal ( 1967 – 68 ), the University of Alberta ( 1969 – 70 ), York University in Toronto ( 1971 – 72 ), the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa ( 1985 ), where she was visiting M. F. A.

She graduated from Harvard University in 1977 with a BA in English, and later attended Stanford Business School ( 1979-1980 ), but dropped out in favor of the University of Iowa Writers ' Workshop, where she earned her MFA in fiction in 1983.

She founded the Maritime Writers Workshop, and has served as writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, the Cape Cod Writers Conference, East Word One, and Bemidji State University.

She also administers the Clarion West Writers Workshop.

She has written for film ( notably Teach Me to Dance, NFB, 1978 ) and for stage: 1985, Edmonton, Workshop West, 1982 ; No Kidding, Vancouver, Green Thumb, 1988 ; After the Fall: The Erotic Life of the Left, Edmonton, Catalyst " Write on the Edge " cabaret, 1992 ; File # 3168, Edmonton, Catalyst, 1993.

She became a member of the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop.

She joined the Central Junior Television Workshop when she was 13 and was soon being offered small-screen roles.

" She has written for the Peabody Award-winning children's series, " Little Bill ," and has written a parenting column for the Sesame Workshop web site called " Talking Outloud ".

She was also involved in Megalo International Screenprint Workshop in Canberra as a community artist at this time having become interested in poster making from her time at the ANU and her participation in the occupation of the Vice-Chancellors residence in 1980.

She then appeared in Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop production of Make Me An Offer in 1959, and her other early West End appearances included the revue One Over the Eight with Kenneth Williams in 1961, and starring in Rattle of a Simple Man in 1962.

She is one of the founders of the Children's Television Workshop ( now known as Sesame Workshop ), the organization famous for the creation of the children's television show Sesame Street.

She was a member of the National Workshop on Internet Voting that was convened at the request of President Clinton and produced a report on Internet Voting in 2001.

She became a member of the Oldham Theatre Workshop, where she befriended Antony Cotton, who now plays Sean Tully on Coronation Street.

She graduated in 1985 and went on to study at the Iowa Writers ' Workshop.

She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Southern California and heads a class in surrealist writing at the UCLA Extension Writers ' Program and has been a senior artist at the non profit theater workshop The Imagination Workshop, helping mentally ill and at-risk individuals write, direct and act in their own theatrical creations.

She also appeared in J C Williamson's Woman in a Dressing Gown starring Googie Withers, Juggler's Three for the Melbourne Theatre Company Workshop, and The Secretary Bird starring Patrick Macnee.

She is an alumna of the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women where she produced and directed the short film, Behind God's Back, based on an Alice Walker short story and starring Beau Bridges.

She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers ' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

She has appeared in productions at the Great American History Theatre, Nautilus Music-Theater, Mixed Blood Theatre, The Minnesota Festival Theater, Illusion Theater, and Dudley Riggs ' Brave New Workshop.

She was in charge of the Lyrical and Choral Workshop of the Opéra de Lyon between 1991 and 1998.

She was one of the original nineteen women admitted to the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women ( AFI DWW ) " who, upon her untimely death, left a good chunk of funding for the DWW.

She trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and Harvey Lembeck's Comedy Workshop.

She is a graduate of the Clarion Workshop and is on the board of directors of the Clarion West Writers Workshop.