With a Master's Degree and over 10 years of elementary experience, I enthusiastically enjoy teaching students in Pre-K through Grade 6. Although I am highly qualified to teach all elementary subject areas, I take the greatest pride in tutoring struggling readers. I have taught in New England and the desert Southwest, but recently moved to WNC to begin a new teaching adventure. (read more)
...I am no longer a full-time teacher as I have chosen to pursue a different career, but I am still passionate about teaching. I am AP Lang certified and am especially knowledgeable of the standards and expectations of that course, but I have privately assisted students of various levels with essay... (read more)
...My teaching style is experiential as I believe every student has the capacity to connect with literature and to write very well, and I enjoy showing a student how he or she does this naturally. I believe in finding the moment of engagement with a work of literature or a writing assignment and wo... (read more)
Hi, my name is Cathy, and I am a retired college professor. Before becoming a college professor, I taught in the secondary school system in the elementary level. I have two master's degrees. (read more)
...Each child is unique and there is no cookie-cutter method to maximize test scores, so I listen to the child and we work together as a partners. I have the enthusiasm of a novice and the experience of a greybeard. On a practical level, I can give more useful information in one hour than the vast majority of tutors can give in 2 or 3. (read more)