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I am a New York City public school teacher, who is also currently earning my Masters in Special Education. I teach 9th and 10th grade health and science. In the past, I've had careers as a fashion designer and a magazine editor. I love being a teacher.
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Bachelor in Arts, English
Master of Science, Special Education
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Recent Rockville Tutoring Session Notes
Primarily spent time covering the rhombus, and the relationships between the angles, sides, and diagonals. Specifically reviewed how to solve for unknowns given some information about the rhombus. The Pythagorean theorem was crucial to this process.
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During our session we worked on all her subjects. We focused more on her math then other subjects. Her science we discussed animals and plants in the forests. We reviewed contracted word and practice spelling. For reading we review the vocabulary used in her reading. In math we organized data using tally marks and graphing. She is getting to great at the multiplication card game.
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The student and I finished and reviewed a physical science section that she started. Then we completed most of a biological sciences section. She will continue taking practice tests this weekend, and has her first official test date next Thursday.
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Worked a great deal on the student's essay writing skills, which are already quite good. Spent the majority of the session on science review. It seems that she's entirely able to reason out any science problem if I'm there talking her through the key points -- the trick now will be to teach her she can do this entirely on her own.
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The student and I worked again on assumptions and logic games. The questions that we did today were particularly difficult. Despite this, I do see overall improvement since we started.
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Covered new material on Newton's three laws. Went over her upcoming homework assignment and then went back and did some review over parabolic motion problems. She is good enough at the math. I decided to focus more on setting up problems in a systematic consistent way for her to always do.
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