...I have been teaching special education for several years to middle and high school students. I have taken and passed the Praxis II: special education content knowledge and have a masters degree in special education with a concentration in serious emotional and behavioral disabilities. I am a highly passionate basketball player and coach. (read more)
...I have two years of tutoring experience, providing English help to middle through high school students and adults. I specialize in tutoring for reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, proofreading, and ESL. In my tutoring experience, I have developed 10-week lesson plans for 1-on-1 sessions as well as a workshop curriculum for small groups of 3-5 students. (read more)
...For example, lots of students have trouble with rules that involve the usage of commas, semicolons, apostrophes with regard to possession, issues with writing tense, correct usage of pronouns, issues with homophones, incorrect word usage in context called "malapropisms", compound words, transitio... (read more)
...I take the time to discover each student's unique academic strengths, and then adapt my teaching style accordingly. I have over three decades of experience teaching students how to prepare for virtually every single standardized exam that assesses verbal abilities. I was an English minor at Columbia University and have scored as high as an 800 (a perfect score) on standardized tests. (read more)