...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 have twenty years' experience teaching English in every environment and with every kind of student imaginable. I have taught in a village school in Jamaica, UNC-Asheville, North Buncombe High School, the Juvenile Evaluation Center and at Christ School, a preparatory boarding school in Asheville. ... (read more)
I have 20 years of experience as a standardized test tutor and have raised student's scores by as much as 200 percent. I also teach speed reading and make math fun. I have Master's degrees from Northwestern University and Columbia Teachers College. (read more)
...I try to teach reading and writing as organically as possible. 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 simp... (read more)