...I am especially passionate about tutoring 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students to help them build this solid foundation. I specialize in identifying areas where students have difficulties with math problems, explaining where they made a mistake, and helping them make the needed corrections to both s... (read more)
...I am also a Certified Academic Language Therapist through the Academic Language Therapy Association. I am trained in Alphabetic Phonics, an Orton Gillingham-based training program. I use multi-sensory techniques to remediate reading, writing, and spelling errors. (read more)
...Learning happens in many places! I started my teaching career as a substitute, but chose not to be the typical sub. In whatever class/subject I was assigned, I took it upon myself to actively instruct the students rather than babysit them, and help them with whatever they were having difficulty with. (read more)
As of this writing, I have no formal experience or training in teaching or tutoring scholastic subjects. However, I do have experience training co-workers in fairly complicated tasks. I believe that if I can train folks well, I should be able to tutor them well also. (read more)
...Most importantly I want students to love coming to school because they know they are not wasting their time and what they will learn will be directly applicable to their lives. I am a strong believer in using Best Practices in the classroom. This means that the teacher is not the only one doing work, the students learn through investigation and prediction of answers. (read more)