...I taught ESL to adults at a variety of levels for 14 years. I have provided teachers with many hours of professional development. Also, for the past year I have been going to people's houses and tutoring their children. (read more)
...I get complete fulfillment watching my students gain confidence and strength in reading. Wilson is the best program for struggling readers. Reading is my favorite subject to teach. (read more)
...I use mentor texts to model good writing and teach my students to effectively vary their sentence structure which makes their writing more engaging and complex. I taught 6th grade math for three years in the gifted and talented program for my district which included prealgebra. I have taught Reader's workshop for the past 15 years. (read more)
7 Subjects: includingReading,Grammar,Elementary (K-6th),World History
...We will study new words to increase and strengthen your vocabulary, both independently as well as in the context of poetry and prose. We will practice what new words mean, the correct ways to use them in context, and how they ought not be used. My goal for our tutoring sessions is that you will become passionate about building a world class vocabulary through discovering and using new words! (read more)
...Additionally, I tutored other students on how to take and pass the Regents. I am a certified Middle School Social Studies teacher, and I have taken and passed the Praxis Middle school Social Studies examination. I have always been a US history buff - my favorite period of time is the American Revolutionary war, with World War
II as a close second. (read more)