Award-Winning Tutors in Placentia, CA for Students in Special Education Programs

...learning difficulties, learning disabled, reluctant readers, building confidence in areas where students have had difficulties reaching grade level standards. I am AVID trained and certified teacher and use these strategies to engage and support students in their learning needs. I am most passionate about building my students confidence areas they struggle with and watching them...

...from Northwestern University with a degree in Human Development and Psychological Services, and am currently working to complete a Master's in Professional Behavior Analysis. I have been working with children with developmental disabilities at an ABA agency in the Washington, DC area for the past few years. My job includes creating measurable milestones to help...

...I love getting to know learners one-on-one, discovering their strengths and their potentials. My past students have come from a wide variety of learning backgrounds and abilities, so I am very comfortable with diversity in every way. My professional experience in the classroom gives me a good idea of the expectations placed on students throughout...

...organizers, and mnemonic self-monitoring reading strategies, my students have developed the ability to successfully demonstrate their knowledge. Through the use of formal and informal data collection, I am a ble to evaluate my successes and failures. Just as I say to my students, "failure is not final". Using my data, I am able to model...

...to improve and grow. It is my job to foster that hunger and to enable the student to progress at the right pace, to achieve his/her potential and then break the barrier even further! My hobbies include reading science fiction/fantasy novels, writing short stories, and playing tennis. I'm also an on-and-off Celtics fan. I am...

...and teachers helped me realize that I am capable of overcoming difficulties through perseverance, and that's a skill that I want to pass on to the students I tutor. Everyone makes mistakes and has struggles, but the important thing is that you can move past those roadblocks. As a tutor, I try really hard to...

...my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and I will be receiving my Masters of Arts in Education with emphasis in Elementary Education December 12. Since returning home to St. Louis, I have been student teaching in a first grade classroom. I have experience with tutoring at all ages, from first grade to college-level. I tutor...

...english, science, and history. I try to make subjects relatable to everyone, using cooking, sports, or other analogies to break down complicated principles. I began as a teaching assistant my sophomore year at Brigham Young University. Since this time, I have performed as a teaching assistant for 14 University-level courses. I have also tutored students...

...I recently graduated from Lewis & Clark College, I majored in psychology and minored in Latin American Studies. I have completed coursework in many other areas, such as statistics, geometry, physics, Spanish, chemistry and art. I'm no stranger to standardized testing either. I have worked with kids of all ages in a variety of educational...

...for their course work. I believe my teaching style is very flexible, as I think the best teachers are those who meet the student where they are and accommodate for the student's needs. In my spare time, I enjoy yoga, meditation, playing the piano, and enjoying a range of holistic and mind-body-spirit activities that promote...