...More important is teaching children to think-to think through their problems and have the strategies to solve them. My skill as a teacher includes all the best practices when developing a learner. I am a trained Lindamood Bell instructor in LiPS and Visualizing and Verbalizing as well as the math program On Cloud Nine. (read more)
...Twenty-seven years experience as a homeschooling teacher who designed much of their own curriculum. Reading has always been one of my favorite things to do. I carry a book everywhere I go and have a house filled with them. (read more)
I am IMSLEC certified in Initial, Advanced, and Trainer for Orton-Gillingham Multisensory Language instruction. I work with students from 6yo through adult bringing to them the gift of reading using strategies and methods unlike the standard classroom methods. The Orton-Gillingham method is a scie... (read more)
...I also have homeschooled my own two children. To have a strong reading skills it is necessary to have a strong foundation in phonics. I have seen students struggle with reading and become frustrated because they lacked the phonetic skills. (read more)