...I am a special education paraprofessional at a middle school, where one of the primary students I support has ADHD, as do others I support. In graduate school, I took a course on Teaching Diverse Learners, half of which was devoted to special education, one lesson of which was devoted to ADHD. I got an A- in that course. (read more)
...I speak, read, and write Russian fluently. I have visited Russia many times. During the 31 years when I taught at the University of Missouri I won numerous teaching awards. (read more)
...I have worked with hundreds of students (outside of Wyzant) to help them learn math. I have over 13 years experience as a teacher and tutor and have worked with over 500 SAT students. My students regularly increase their total SAT scores by 150 points or more, and many have scored 700-800 in SAT math. (read more)
...I found that having the student read short essays and answer questions helped tremendously and of course, going over vocabulary in which he had problems was beneficial. This helped me to know where his strengths and weaknesses were in order to improve on them. Reading
In the past, I had a 14-year-old student that was having trouble with his reading and comprehension. (read more)