• Undergrad:

  Ithaca College

• Grad 1:

  Enrolled, University of Rochester

• Tutors Out Of:

  Rochester, NY

• Travel Radius:

  10 miles

• Tutoring Certifications:

  algebra 1 - English - GED - geography - Microsoft word - powerpoint - prealgebra - proofreading - psychology - reading - SAT math - SAT reading - SAT writing - Spanish - special needs - study skills - trigonometry - vocabulary

• Tutor's Fee Per Hour:

  $31.50 * with a 10% discount after purchasing $360

Currently, I am enrolled at the University of Rochester and working towards a dual masters degree in childhood education and special education. I am also employed for the summer as a teacher assistant at a school for students with Neurodegenerative Disorders. The first half of my summer is spent working with students ages 18-21 and the second half I will be working with elementary students.
My undergraduate degree was in Community Health Education where I had the opportunity to gain teaching experience in two different internships. One internship was with the Learning Web Organization where I worked both at the Youth Outreach Center and in the Career Exploration and Apprenticeship Program. In the Youth Outreach Center, along with other responsibilities, I tutored homeless and transient youth in GED. In the Career Exploration and Apprenticeship Program I ran a job skills group with my supervisor for adolescents doing an apprenticeship through the program. My second internship was at the Franziska Racker Center where I was a teacher assistant in a classroom for preschool age children with Autism. I have also had the chance to work as a teacher aide for an Autistic student in a mainstream elementary school.
All of these experiences have allowed me to learn to work with students of all ages and adapt to individual learning styles. I have also learned how important it is to embrace creativity while teaching and provide positive feedback. Motivation is key in order for a student to learn because most students have the potential for success, but not necessarily the will to succeed. I have high expectations for all students I encounter because I believe it can not be decided for another person what they are capable of doing. As a teacher I do not give up on a student and am willing to adapt my way of thinking and teaching style to each individual.

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• GED

  GED tutoring is the only actual previous tutoring experience I have had. I had an internship working in a Youth Outreach Center for homeless and transient youth. Many wanted to attain their GED in order to attend the local community college and higher paying jobs. I worked with different youth on all of the different subjects using the preparation books in order to prepare them for their tests. Unfortunately, my internship was only a few months meaning I was only a portion of the tutoring they received before taking the test. My experience tutoring for GED has helped me to become very familiar with the material. It also helped me to learn different ways of explaining the various subjects. Many of the people I worked with found math and science particularly difficult. I came up with many different strategies to remember how to solve math problems. A lot of the strategies I had learned through my own education such as PEMDAS as a way to remember the order in which to solve equations. I tried to explain problems in words that the youth would understand because often Math is taught to every student in a class using the same teaching strategy. Many of the students I worked with also had lost interest in education and had felt like failures. I made a point to stay positive and encouraging while tutoring. Although I never got to find out the actual results of the people I tutored, over the few months I worked with them their knowledge had greatly increased. I hope to have the same impact on more students and actually be working with them when they pass the test.

• special needs

  I plan to pursue a career as a Special Education teacher once I have finished my graduate work and become New York State certified to teach. Through coursework, past employment, and field experience I feel very confident in this area. I will also be gaining further knowledge at the same time I will be tutoring. In the next two years I will be working towards a dual masters degree in childhood education and special education at the University of Rochester. This will provide me with knowledge of both theories and teaching strategies, along with actual experience through student teaching. I have had the opportunity to work with a variety of special needs students at many different ages. Currently, I am working at both a school for young adults and a summer program for elementary students with neurodegenerative disorders. I must learn to adapt the instruction to different individual learning styles for the students I encounter all have unique ways of learning. Some students may only understand written words while some only understand verbal instruction. This allows me to work on a lot of different strategies for working with a special needs population. During my time as an Undergraduate at Ithaca College I gained teaching experiences through my coursework. I ran an afterschool program with a group of my peers for adolescents at risk of failing high school. In another class I was able to teach my own health unit in a middle school special education classroom. I also had two internships in my last year of college. One required actual tutoring of homeless and transient youth in GED material along with running a job skills group for at-risk adolescents. The other internship was as a teacher assistant in a preschool classroom for children with Autism. More one-on-one experience was gained while working as a teacher aide in an elementary school for a student with Autism. I have learned to be creative and adapt my teaching style to each unique individual. In a special needs population the struggle often occurs in a setting where it is perceived there is only one right way of learning. I believe my experiences have given me a strong knowledge base in the area of special needs, and will only continue to grow as I work towards my Masters degree.

• study skills

  Study skills should be a subject in school for they are the most important, often untaught, skill required for success in our education system. They are something I have had to learn on my own in order to complete high school and college. I must still continue to work on them as I go for my Masters degree in Graduate school. Fortunately, I have acquired good study habits and have even had the chance to teach them to others. My undergraduate degree was in Community Health Education, and one component consisted of running an afterschool program for adolescents at risk of failing high school. We were allowed to choose the topics we thought would be most helpful in school success. Study skills was first on our list. Many of the students were doing so poorly because they lacked sufficient study skills along with different components needed in order to learn an efficient way to study. These included time management, sleep habits, and organization. Some of these students were not even writing down their homework assignments. We were able to provide the students with many resources to improve their study habits. I feel competent in teaching this subject since I have already had experience improving the study skills of students. I have also proved to be sufficient in my own academic career considering how many tests have been necessary to pass in order to get where I am today. There are many different ways to improve ones studying and I hope to be able to design study plans unique to each individual.