I am a licensed teacher, certified to teach English / Language Arts (middle and high school); Reading K-12; Secondary Remedial Reading; Secondary Developmental Reading; and Traffic Safety). I have taught in public schools and worked with kids and adults of all ages, and have even taught for the Cus... (read more)
...I have helped students significantly increase their scores from a practice pretest to the actual assessment through targeted and customized instruction. I taught high school juniors English and created lesson specifically to prepare for the English portions of the ACT. Learning a couple grammar rules can increase an ACT score by two points. (read more)
...I help students develop their skills and teach them new techniques to reach their own goals in math. I have experience teaching students at different ages: I have taught students who have just been starting elementary school to students who are seniors in high school. I am a current tutor at a ... (read more)
...We meet Thursdays after school and even publish the campus literary magazine. My students inspire me daily, so I wrote the club's motto: All Skills, All Stories, All Students. As for tutoring, I have over 25 years experience mentoring students one-to-one. (read more)
...Additionally, I'm working with U of I to develop a new approach to teaching geometry at the K4-K6 level. I had a young friend J.J. back in California who, though extremely intelligent, hadn't yet learned how to read. This was creating all kinds of social/academic problems. (read more)