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Learn More About Jourdan's Experience:

ESL/ESOL I am a certified ESOL instructor. I received my TESOL certifcation from the University of California (UCI)in Irvine. I also taught ESOL at UCI to students from all over the world. I taught the following classes: accent reduction, speaking/listening, reading/writing, grammar, phonics, conversation and culture,idioms, basic living skills, study skills. I've been a teacher for over 8 years. GED General Education classes are a group of classes the fall under a portion of the reading category, with which I am highly certified to teach. I conduct a lot of group work and kinesthetic activities. I have the students keep daily journals, do a final group presentation, current event debates, read alouds. grammar I would like to be able to tutor in both grammar and proofreading. I have taught grammar classes for over "8" years from beginning to advanced levels in the ESOL program. I've taught everything from nouns and verb tenses to gerunds and prepositional phrases. In the reading classes I taught, proofreading was a major part of my job. I had to proofread my students paragraphs, expository, and narrative papers for spelling and grammatical errors. phonics I use phonis when I work with beginning, intermediate, and some advanced ESOL students for accent reduction and pronunciation. It is one of our more popular classes. The class entails sounding out the letters of the alphabet one by one and then blending them with another letter or vowel...each time adding more letters and vowels...noticing how the words are changing and how our mouths are moving. Typically, I have the students bring a large hand held mirror to class so that they can see the movement of their moth and the placement of their tongue when they make these new words. I also tape record them. We also play some fun phonics games. proofreading I would like to be able to tutor in both grammar and proofreading. I have taught grammar classes for over "8" years from beginning to advanced levels in the ESOL program. I've taught everything from nouns and verb tenses to gerunds and prepositional phrases. In the reading classes I taught, proofreading was a major part of my job. I had to proofread my students paragraphs, expository, and narrative papers for spelling and grammatical errors. study skills These are rules of thumb that can enhance a students learning potential, although much of it is common sense. Go into a quiet room or a library to study with no distractions (no TV/computer , stereo, ipod, pets, cell phone) .Focus on only the task at hand. .Organize everything you will need in order .Highlight important parts, dates, names, etc. .Don't take the time to look up every vocabulary word up in the dictionry that you don't know .Keep a notebook by your side where you can jot down ideas