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Debra Ann: Baltimore tutor
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...student's potential. I have taught for 17 years and specialize in students with dyslexia whether older or younger. I teach UFLI, Take Flight, Rewards, Reading Readiness, writing, and other programs to match your child's needs. These programs are Orton Gillingham-based. I teach prefixes and suffixes as well as morphology while making it fun. I am...
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Bachelor of Science, Business Administration and Management
Master of Arts Teaching, Special Education
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Recent Baltimore Tutoring Session Notes
Today the student and I reviewed factoring binomials of special cases and trinomials. Then we discussed how to solve quadratic equations, such as: 1. guess, 2. factoring, 3. quadratic formula and 4. completing the square. Then we went over how to solve quadratic-like equations that have exponents bigger than a square. We did a lot of practice problems and ended the session by playing a math game involving logic.
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We took a break from Math and worked on the section the student liked most: reading comprehension. In fact, she did extremely well on this section, with the exception of poetry. The student tends to rush into answers without thinking it through, so we are taking steps to correct that.
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Review: vector addition, decomposition of vectors, & trigonometric rules. Electrostatics: origin of electromagnetic phenomena and classification of materials, charge conservation, Coulomb's Law, electric fields, field lines, charge distributions, example problems.
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For our last lesson together, we wanted to do a final overview of all the application essays she has been working on. She intends to turn in her applications next week and wanted to make sure everything was ready and up to par. I think she was very happy with the way they turned out and only has to make minor changes on a couple of the short responses.
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Began working through the study guide for the student's physics final. We focused on problems involving kinematics (acceleration, velocity calcs) and energy/force balance. The student understands core concepts well. Final is on Friday, more sessions later in the week.
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We reviewed a written piece on the subject of the movie. The general topics we covered included: phonetics and pronunciation, the French style of writing, and working to make sentences less wordy. Specifically, we covered the tricky "eu" sound, liaisons between words, idiomatic expressions, and negations. She continues to improve each session and really absorbs the material that we cover.
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