Over the past 11 years, I have taught English for 7th-12th grades and tutored students in varying capacities. In addition to working on grammar and mechanics, I have tutored students for SAT prep, college essay editing, research assignments, reading comprehension, vocabulary development and classroom confidence building. I absolutely love working with kids and seeing them progress. (read more)
...This is why I believe in the value and effectiveness of tutoring. In teaching high school, I find there is a deeper opportunity to both connect with and teach students. So many of my college students arrive in the classroom struggling to express themselves in their writing, to correctly employ grammar, and to both comprehend and critically analyze what they are reading. (read more)
...As an undergraduate at Lyndon State College, I tutored for three years, assisting students in all class levels as well as a variety of subjects. The writing projects ranged from short essays to research papers that constituted an entire semester's grade. During graduate studies at Vermont College of Fine Arts, proofreading and critiquing fellow students' work honed my skills. (read more)
...Currently I am enrolled in an AUtism specialist certificate program. Within the past year I took the general curriculum for elementary education. In preparing for the exam I read and familiarized myself with American History. (read more)