Antonea Denene P. - Tutor in Columbia, SC (29209)

Hi, my name is Antonea. I have a Bachelors and Masters degree from West Virginia University in Morgantown, W. Va. I have 28 hours above my Masters degree. I am a retired teacher with 28 years of teaching experience which includes kindergarten through college. I am certified and qualified to teach English, language arts, writing and special education (learning disabilities and mentally challenged).
During my 28 years of teaching, I taught special education (K-12) and language arts (grades 7th and 8th). Since my retirement, I have taught college English, level 100 and have tutored students in 4th and 5th grades. I love literature, English, creative writing, poetry, acting, oral interpretation and music.
As a result of my years of experience in special education, I learned how to individualize instruction according to each student's learning style, and I use a multisensory approach to teaching because that approach includes all learning styles and modalities.

phonics

I taught my son and daughter to read at the ages of three and four by using phonics. They both became very good readers, and they love reading. I was a special education resource teacher for the first ten years of my teaching career, and except for those students who were not phonetic learners, I taught all of my students to read with phonics. As a self contained special education teacher, I also used phonics as one of the methods of teaching reading. For those students who did not learn phonetically, I used a multisensory approach which incorporated phonics. I have a Masters Degree in special education. Of my 28 years of teaching, eighteen of those were teaching special education. Because of my training and my experience in teaching phonics, I am requesting certification in that subject area.

special needs

I have a Masters degree in special education (learning disabilities and educably mentally challenged). I taught special education for 19 of my 28 years of teaching. I have taught special education, levels K-12, resource and self-contained models. Because each student has a different learning style, I used a multisensory approach to educating special students. This approach is beneficial to all types of students because it includes all of the learning modalities. My greatest joy was watching the self-confidence grow in my special students as they began to see themselves learning, especially in being able to read a book independently, write a short story, and/or add and subtract. I, too, became the student as I found myself learning so much from them.