Private, Individualized Tutoring Sessions
Sessions Individualized for Student Needs:
Identified Subject Area Weakness
My first session with a new client typically involves administering an assessment to gauge performance in the identified area(s) (ex. reading comprehension, decoding, encoding, writing, oral reading fluency, etc). Clients are then provided with a written description of their student's performance and a proposed plan for remediation of any identified weak areas. Data is collected to monitor client growth over the course of tutoring sessions and shared with families on a continual basis.
Executive Functioning Weaknesses
My goal is to help clients develop the skills, strategies, and self-talk needed to navigate school and life. The child may be having difficulty because of one, or combinations of, the following:
1. Underlying skill weaknesses
2. Underdeveloped compensatory strategies needed to “work smart” or to work around skill weaknesses
3. Limited/inadequate self-talk directing the use of skills and strategies
My job is to help identify how these three areas are playing into academic difficulties and support the child to grow in all three areas. Together we’d explore which specific executive functioning areas are presenting challenges and target these systematically.
Bachelor of Arts, Elementary Education, and Liberal Arts from Emmanuel College
Master of Education, Special Education (Moderate Disabilities preK -8 and 5 - 12), from Fitchburg State University
Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study (Inclusion Education), from the University of New England
Wilson Level 1 Certification
Sheltered English Immersion Endorsement
Title I Reading Teacher Grades 3 & 5
Elementary Classroom Teacher Grades 3 & 4
Special Education Teacher/Liaison Grades 5 - 12