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Ellen K.

Ellen, M.E.D in Special Education

Fairfax, VA (22032)

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My name is Ellen and I am a retired Fairfax County Highly Qualified Teacher who has been teaching for over 30 years in both private and public school settings. During these thirty years, I have also served as a private tutor and have worked with elementary, highschool and special education students. As an educator, I have had the opportunity to utilize various reading, math and technology programs.
I truly enjoy the advantage of teaching in a one-to-one setting and I feel that my patience, sense of humoe, diligence, and vast educational knowledge makse me a a great tutor. I am eagerly looking forward to working with your children.

Ellen's Subjects

English:
Test Preparation:
Language:
History:
Special Needs:
Elementary Education:
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American History

I happen to love all types of history and have taught grades 1-8 in American and World History. In addition, I have also tutored privately on the high school level. Having taught in Fairfax County, I am very familiar with the elementary history SOL curriculum and have made many types of study guides for both ESOL, special education and regular students.

Reading

I have been teaching reading for over thirty years. I am certified to teach Cognitive Reading Strategies, Read Naturally, Reading Mastery, Wilson Reading, Visualization and Verbalization and other strategies. These strategies address comprehension, fluency, and phonics as well. I believe in using a variety of strategies to address my student's individual needs.

English

I have been teaching English since 1978. I even attended Oxford University in England and obtained 12 credits in English. This was accomplished after I had received my Master's Degree. In addition, I am considered a Highly Qualified Teacher of English.

ESL/ESOL

I began my teaching career in New York City. For many of my students, English was their second language. Thus, I had to use numerous ESOL strategies to help them comprehend many of the subjects. I also taught science to second grade bilingual (ESOL) students by using numerous visuals. I also had my second graders say the terms in Spanish while I gave them the English translations and we learned together. In addition, I taught English to adults at a Korean after school program as well. We role... Read More

Proofreading

As stated previously, I have been teaching English since 1978 and am also a highly qualified Fairfax County English teacher. I have taught Elementary, Junior High and High school English. I also obtained 12 credits in English from Oxford University in England.

Elementary (K-6th)

I am currently certified to teach k-6 students and have been doing so for over 25 years. I have taught math, science, language arts, art, social studies,and P.E. I have designed and adapted curriculum (including study guides) and have helped my students prepare for SOLS for over 17 years. I have also scored VGLA Tests and VAAP tests. In addition, I have administered and interpreted educational testing and have designed curriculum based on the results of these tests. I am a very experienced teacher... Read More

Phonics

I am a certified Wilson Reading Instructor. The Wilson Reading Program is a highly structured remedial program that directly teaches the structure of language to grade 2 students through adulthood using a multitsensory approach based on the Orton-Gillingham Method. It provides a systematic and cumulative approach to teach total word structure for encoding and decoding. This program has controlled and decodable text. In addition, this program also includes a program called Fundations which caters... Read More

Study Skills

I have utilized numerous study strategies with my students. However, I am not going to mention every single technique right now. We have made flash cards with visuals and the definitions on the cards. Each subject would be on different colored flashcards. I have also included the page number of the text where the essential vocabulary words were located so we would not have to continually refer back to the book. I have also had my students create study guides in lieu of flashcards with numerous... Read More

Special Needs

I became an elementary school teacher in 1978. While teaching, I discovered that many of my students had special needs so I obtained my Master's Degree in special education at Marymount University in 1983. Since then, I have taught and tutored kids with Emotional Disabilities, Autism, ADHD, ADD, Learning Disabilities and Mental Retardation. I have also tutored and taught at the Lab School of Washington which was created for students with special needs. I also tutored at RICA, which was a residential... Read More

ADD/ADHD

I have been a special education teacher since 1988. I even taught at the Lab School of Washington, which is a school that was started by Sally Smith, a former professor at American University and a mother of children with special needs. During these years, I have also taught many students with ADD/ADHD. As a matter of fact, I filled out numerous Conners' Rating Scale requests from parents and doctors for students who were suspected of having these conditions. I helped qualify these students for... Read More

Aspergers

I have been teaching since 1978 and obtained my Master's Degree from Marymount University in Special Education in 1983. I was a Fairfax County Special Education teacher since 1993. During those years, I have taught many autistic students on various levels of the spectrum, including those with Aspergers. In addition, I served on the Local Screening Committee and the Eligibility Committee. The Committee identified students with special needs and then I was involved in writing IEPS and 504 plans... Read More

Autism

I have been a special education teacher since 1993 in Fairfax, Virginia. During these years, I have taught many autistic students on various levels of the spectrum. In addition, while serving as a Local Screening Chairperson, I was involved in the testing and eligibility process for these students. I also wrote IEPS for these students and conducted many social skills classes for them. I have also taken courses such as Autism Spectrum Disorders:Nature and Management and Behavioral Intervention... Read More

Dyslexia

Many students with dyslexia have difficulty visualizing letters within words. Thus, they have trouble with rapidly perceiving sounds in words. This difficulty can impact a student's spelling, comprehension, as well as their fluency. I am trained in several programs which were specifically designed to help dyslexic readers. Two of these programs are the Lindamood Seeing Stars Program and the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program for Reading, Spelling, and Speech. The Lindamood Seeing Stars Program... Read More

SOL

As stated previously, I have been teaching elementary school students in Fairfax County for 17 years. During that time, I was involved in preparing numerous students for the SOLS. I have developed study packets and taught after school remedial SOL classes. I have also been involved in administering these tests and making appropriate accommodations for special education students. I have helped prepare students for reading, writing, math, social studies, and science SOLS. I have used such writing... Read More

Social Studies

I have been teaching social studies since 1978. I have taught New York State and City history, including units on immigration to Ellis Island and the history of the Hudson River. I took my students to visit Ellis Island and we made dioramas of the Island as well. I have also taught and tutored American History to high school students. In Fairfax County, I taught about China, Greece, Rome and Mesopotamia (third and fifth grade curriculum and posted power point presentations on the County website... Read More

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