...With four years of classroom teaching experience and two years of tutoring elementary-age children, I adopt a hands-on, student-centered approach in my teaching. I utilize a variety of techniques to address the diverse learning styles of my students. In the classroom, I create a nurturing atmos... (read more)
...The students make connections between the text and their lives, global or historical events, and other texts. We practice making inferences, predictions, visualizations, and observations. I lead students through the process of essay writing, from brainstorming and note-taking to research and structure, and sentence-by-sentence syntax and eloquence. (read more)
...As a lecturer at a state university, I also have 5+ years of teaching experience working with both college students and older adults, teaching classes on phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. My specialty is linguistics, but I also have a background (B.A.) in sociology... (read more)
...I give my students the strategies needed to approach the SAT - finding the main idea, author's purpose, and deciding which passage to read first. I also discuss the types of questions students will encounter on the test and how to decide which ones they should answer. We look at inference questions, questions involving graphs or charts, as well as vocabulary in context. (read more)
...I student taught in Pawling High School in a PACE resource room where I worked specifically with a student with ADHD, I worked a leave replacement in Haviland Middle School in a reading AIS classroom with students who were diagnosed with ADHD, and I've helped my brother with his school work and h... (read more)