Award-Winning Tutors in Western Springs, IL for Students in Special Education Programs

...for instructional gaps and then fill in gaps to bolster a strong subject area foundation. 3. Impart test-taking skills and strategies necessary for school success. I teach with the tenets of the Common Core State Standards in mind. As such, I do not aim to teach "tricks" for getting the right answer. Rather, I aim to wholly ingrain the skills, strategies, and overall thinking needed to fully understand how and why we can come to...

...also worked extensively with special needs children, doing everything from teaching special education to one-on-one in-home mentoring. Through my experiences, I have continued to carry my passion for working with children and have developed my skills in making successful and individualized learning fun. Math, science and test prep are the subjects I'm particularly passionate about tutoring, as I've always loved those subjects myself. Additionally, I've worked extensively with adults on business skills, marketing and social...

...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 learners achieve their goals, and determining what teaching methods will be most effective for each individual client. I believe that active student responding, personalized programs,...

...my junior) was my first tutoring buddy and assures even today that I get to help build a science fair project board every year. I was also a camp counselor for three summers caring for on average twenty children ages 5-10. Then I began professionally tutoring through my high school when I was sixteen until I was eighteen. I assisted middle schoolers and high schoolers, ages 11-18, on their core subjects: math, reading, social sciences,...

...am usually teaching. I have served as a graduate teaching assistant for U of I's Introduction to World Music course for two years. Before attending graduate school, I worked as a certified substitute teacher for K-12 general and special education in Michigan. I also volunteered as a literacy tutor with the Family Learning Institute in Ann Arbor, MI. While I am comfortable tutoring in a wide range of humanities and language arts subjects, I am...

...helping them succeed in their endeavors to master whatever tests, subjects, or ideas they wish. I am a student at Brigham Young University, and am currently an undecided major. I have a passion for tutoring and helping my pupils succeed. I am charismatic, fun, hardworking, spontaneous, and reliable! I am more than a guy with a brain; I have an ability to connect with people on a personal level. As you will see, my various...

...pull all nighters, and even sacrifice our social time to prove to the world that we retained what we learned that year. But are we *actually* learning? My goal as a tutor is to make your studies enjoyable. I love to use visual and real world examples to help you grasp difficult concepts. At the end of our sessions, it is my mission to make sure that you can not only solve sample problems, but...

I am a second grade educator who loves seeing students grow! ... Every student is like a crayon; all different, all sharp and all an awesome part of completing the box!... Discuss their needs and where they feel they are in their academics.... Giving them tools to be successful across all content areas.... Constant encouragement and celebrating the small success!... Motivate them to keep trying and redirect my instruction.... Give them skills to assist with...

...I have taught 2nd - 5th grades, as well as 7th and 8th grades. I have taught both regular education and special education. I majored in Elementary Education, and I minored in Fine and Performing Arts. I enjoy working with children and have spent most of my summers since I was a teenager working with youth at different summer camps. I feel that all students can learn and be successful; they just need a teacher...

...differences are not synamous with disadvantages. Different learning styles or varied personal interests are things to celebrate. By immediately identifying and leveraging an individual's strengths, I have helped students successfully overcome their weaknesses. With diverse strategies such as the use of mathematical models, pre-writing graphic 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 able to...

...where I have now taught for over three years. During college, I spent several summers working at an overnight camp with campers in grades seven through nine. It was a great opportunity to better understand the needs of middle school students, which are vastly different from both elementary and high school students. I am passionate about not only teaching my students the content of Language Arts, but also teaching elements of study skills, organizational skills,...

...tutoring and small group tutoring in the classroom. I also have experience with homework club. I currently work in higher education, working with individuals pursuing graduate school. My favorite subject to teach is anything with elementary school children. With older children, I enjoy many subjects such as reading, writing, social studies, and science. My teaching philosophy focuses on breaking things down so that they are simple and easy to understand, so that my students can...

...soda bottle water rockets, and working for and with wildlife by cleaning up their habitats and raising trout from eggs for release as fry (juvenile fish). Math is exciting to tutor, especially using manipulatives and other forms of representation-we can do that visually online as we work together. Reading for fun is one of my hobbies, but I know how to inspire struggling readers and teach them techniques for making sense of what they're reading....

...school children in downtown Los Angeles. In 2013 I graduated from UCLA with a major in English literature and minors in both French and Latin. I now work as an instructor for children with developmental disorders, using applied behavioral analysis therapy to decrease their maladaptive behaviors and increase behaviors that will help them to be successful in life. I love my job and working with children of all ages and will soon be applying to...

...disabilities. I have always loved math, from the time I was in elementary school up until now, while I am taking graduate level statistics courses. My favorite subjects to tutor are all math courses- from elementary up to statistics. My favorite part about tutoring is when a child really, truly starts to understand the material and they have that "aha" moment. Education is something that has always been important to me and I enjoy being...

...an adjunct professor at a nearby university. I am currently certified in Reading (K-12), Elementary Education (K-6), ESOL (K-12) (English Speakers of Other Languages), Middle Grades Integrated Curriculum(6-8), and Exceptional Student Education (K-12). I currently teach Intensive Reading at the middle school level. I design and implement engaging, data driven instruction using research based strategies, technology, and formative assessments. I believe in interactive, personalized, and fun instructional strategies. I believe in scaffolding instruction in order...

...success. Learning needs to be intentional, energetic, hilarious, focused, motivating, and inspiring, which requires passionate educators, such as myself, to create environments where all of this is possible. I approach education from a whole-child perspective. A student's success is not based solely on their academic achievement, but their social/emotional development, their relationships with their peers, family, surrounding community, culture, and world. This enveloping philosophy begins with developing a student's character, heart, intellect, and creativity equally;...

...who enjoys working with all types of learners, I bring a personal, positive, and professional approach to my work, with some educational fun thrown in for good measure. I am both a teacher and tutor with my master's degree and have nearly twenty years of experience as a professional writer and editor. I use all of this background to help identify my students' learning needs and to craft ways to help them achieve greater academic...

...I also worked in publishing creating a lot of the material you see on practice tests and various educational workbooks, textbooks, and media. I recently moved from NYC as I worked in the NYC Deptartment of Education as an English teacher and Social Studies teacher. The students I have worked with in the past are Gifted and Talented, Dyslexic, Dysgraphic, Anti-Authoritative, ADD/HD, Epileptic, Autistic, English Language Learners, and those with specialized IEPs. I'm also a...

...a facility that exclusively works with at-risk youth. I have also led several backpacking trips through Wyoming for teenagers. My passion lies in English, particularly writing, but that's not to say that I don't enjoy reading and analyzing a good book! I especially enjoy tutoring in English because I find English to be captivating for all individuals. Any person, regardless of reading level, background and experience, is capable of finding an affection for either reading...