Rolling Valley and Hunt Valley Elementary Schools. 9/05 to present. Patty teaches skills used in media production, such as illustration and acting, to children aged five to 13. She prepares lessons that push the children to adult-level abilities while having fun. Her popular art class, "Cartooning and More," focuses on college-level drawing skills, including freehand drawing, shading, and composition. She publishes the children's work on the web site for her classes. From 9/05 to 11/07 she taught the classes through Fairfax County Park Authority.

Michael's Stores, Inc. 8/07 to 10/07. She taught painting skills to beginning adults by creating decorative painting projects, demonstrating the painting methods, and helping the students learn step by step. Skills taught included how to plan a project, create the initial image, handle the brush, use shading techniques (including one-stroke), and varnish the finished piece.

Rolling Valley Elementary School. 9/04 to 1/05. She worked as a volunteer assistant in the school art class, helping fourth and fifth graders learn drawing, pastels, pottery, and fiber arts.

Computer Learning Center. 11/94. Patty taught a hands-on class, Introduction to WordPerfect for Windows 6.0, to CLC company executives and other headquarters personnel.

The Borden Group Inc. 1/93, 7/93. She taught four hands-on seminars: Introduction to Desktop Publishing (methods and technology), Introduction to PageMaker, Advanced WordPerfect, and Drawing Techniques with Corel Draw.

VIP Systems, Inc. 10/92, 12/92. Patty provided two hands-on seminars: The Ventura/ WordPerfect Alliance for Producing Publications, Manipulating Database Information for Ventura Import.

JWP Information Services. 5/92. She taught a seminar to federal employees, Introduction to WordPerfect.

Forte Group. 6/91. She provided hands-on instruction in using customized WordPerfect macros to employees so they could produce a Department of Agriculture publication.

Patty informally instructed employees in computer and graphic skills at the following work sites: Wang Government Services, Commonwealth Scientific, Construction Specifications Institute, Freddie Mac, Curtis & Company, Hughes Training, Resampling Stats, Garruba Dennis Design, and Times of the Americas.