Dalena: Plainfield tutor
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Graduated from the University of Central Florida with a Masters degree in Education, where I also received endorsements in Reading and ESOL instruction. I am originally from the Caribbean and was raised in West New York, NJ.
Fluent in Spanish, written and spoken. I was in bilingual classes through some of my K-12 Education. Because English was considered by second language, I, like many of my fellow students, struggled in reading.
Currently in a doctoral program in Central Florida for Educational Leadership. My personal motto is that "Failure" is a sign that you are trying. We learn more from failure than we do from success.
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Undergraduate Degree: University of Central Florida - Bachelors, Psychology
Graduate Degree: University of Central Florida - Masters, Elementary Education
Travelling, reading, cooking, spending with my dogs, listening to music, yoga, kayaking, hiking.
- Adult ESL/ELL
- Adult Literacy
- College English
- Conversational Spanish
- English
- ESL/ELL
- Essay Editing
- High School English
- High School Writing
- Languages
- Middle School Reading
- Middle School Reading Comprehension
- Middle School Writing
- Other
- Spanish
- Special Education
- Writing
What is your teaching philosophy?
TPR- Total Physical Response. The fastest way to stimulate the mind is to move the body. I can use a charades game to act out story to teach "summarizing". I can use a beach ball with key comprehension questions to ask. The student is responsible to answer the question where his/her thumb landed. I also use Kagan Strategies, such as rolling of the dice, round-robin, Jig-Saw, etc.