...I eagerly look forward to assisting you and your child on your own educational adventure. As a first grade teacher, I taught reading strategies that focused on comprehension, fluency, phonemic awareness, sight words, and deciding. In math, I taught basic skills focusing on number sense, addition, subtraction, word problems, money, time, basic geometry, and basic fractions. (read more)
...I believe in finding the moment of engagement with a work of literature or a writing assignment and working from there. In SAT and ACT preparation, I enjoy sharing the strategies not only for vocabulary mastery and answer selection but also for mental preparation for the testing environment. My... (read more)
...I also can help students to begin to incorporate better grammar into their essays in a natural and easily-learned manner. I was a full-time counselor for 9 years, and worked with many students to enhance their study skills. Because I understand psychology so well, I can help each student to find the motivation that may be hidden within himself or herself. (read more)
...I believe that a student needs to fully understand the goals of writing an essay or reading a complex text before they can succeed at these things, and I believe that is better to explain the logic of reading and writing than to simply state the "rules." As a teacher, I look for my students' weak... (read more)