tutor, poet, teacher • in the Boston area

Specific skills taught and practiced:

• phonics and spelling
• decoding and reading fluency
• comprehension
• writing
• homework help
• organizational strategies

My approach:

• lessons are one on one tutorials
• to build success through introducing skills and strategies and time for practice
• to help the student understand his/her learning style and to develop best strategies for gaining a strong foundation for academic success
• to incorporate the visual, auditory, spoken and kinesthetic (tactile) aspects of learning to reinforce a student’s gains to maximize success
• provide opportunities for challenges when helpful as a student progresses, such as higher level reading and writing skills
• confer with parents/care-givers and teachers as needed

My qualifications:

• 6 years of teaching preschool, children ages 3-5
• 20 years of teaching 2nd, 3rd, 4th grades at Buckingham, Brown and Nichols School in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Advanced training:
  • Orton Gillingham Approach (course work and practicum), certified at Associate level
  • Visualizing and Verbalizing
  • Project Read: Framing Your Thoughts
  • Orton Gillingham: Beyond the Basics
• 12 years of tutoring experience