...I am a retired attorney with over 30 years of experience in the education field; including teaching k-6, middle school, high school, and college. As an attorney, I specialized in Juvenile Law; including delinquent children, abused/neglected children, children with special needs, and children wit... (read more)
...I couldn't resist doing some teaching at Pellissippi State Community College and I also became a homeschooling mom--developing our curriculum and teaching our first-grader and kindergartner at home. Fabulous fun for us all! Those young children are now successful high school students. (read more)
...I don’t subscribe to standards or schedules and prefer to go at the student's pace; if a specific topic is taking a while to understand, or is simply interesting to them, then I see no issue taking more time on it and will adjust subsequent lessons to accommodate it. I am enamored by the subject... (read more)
...I have a BA, Masters degree, and a PhD. My areas of competence include: history, philosophy, religious studies, biblical studies, and Greek. My style for one-on-one teaching is very flexible toward what the student needs as well as adaptable to various learning styles. (read more)
...I am a Wilson Certified Instructor and I have a doctorate degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Carson Newman University. I use The Wilson Reading System because it is a systematic and explicit approach to reading. It is researched based and integrates the 5 critical components of literacy- phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. (read more)