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English teacher offering virtual classes with 11 years of experience teaching 6th-12th grade students
- English
- Reading
- Literacy
- Creative writing
- Redaction
- English Literature
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About Sandra
I am always changing and adapting as I explore new teaching strategies and methods. Through my 11 years of experience, I have engaged all learners, inspired inquiry, and facilitated teacher-educator learning. As a teacher and professional development leader, I hope to be your tutor!
As a teacher in a Battle Creek School, I plan instruction that invites students to discover and understand the way others make sense of their lives--I think this would translate well to being a tutor. With my project-based learning (PBL) training, my students become a community as they share their stories in a variety of multimodal ways. Before a teacher introduces a project, they, too, must have a clear goal and objective for the students. For example, one project: my students complete is called “Believe in Battle Creek.” In this project, students design, create, revise, and research. To conduct research, we partner with Willard Library, the Battle Creek Community Foundation, and local non-profits. Partnering with the community helps students to understand how others see the world, which in turn provides an opportunity for them to extend, refine, or challenge the way they understand themselves.
As a PBL teacher in Grand Rapids, I have had experience collaborating with a social studies teacher and the West Michigan Project Management Institute to transform the “typical” classroom experience. I filled the role of not only English teacher, but also a coach, facilitator, guide, and innovative curriculum designer. Since New Tech is a new project-based model, teachers work together to create projects and lessons that employ multiple subject areas. In addition, each student had a computer, and were taught how to use technology to effectively increase knowledge and creativity. For many students, using technology as a school tool is revolutionary and new; therefore, teachers work to intentionally scaffold different technologies and computer programs. This truly is “21st-century learning.”
Common Core State Standards have required all content-area teachers to rethink their curriculum. As a professional development leader at Ypsilanti New Tech, I facilitated discussions, activities, and presentations. At a summer conference, department chairs created our school-year’s literacy goals: to improve ACT and NWEA writing scores, and employ common assessments that are aligned with Common Core State Standards. The Common Core State Standards is known as “an integrated model of literacy.” For most of our non-ELA teachers, it felt overwhelming to implement literacy into their content area. As the professional development leader, I needed to scaffold the professional development meetings in a succession that promoted confidence, engaged, and created clear objectives. Therefore, as a staff we gathered data about students’ literacy practices, analyzed the data, articulated literacy goals, reflected on what was learned, and we related this information to possibility for practice and common assessments. Collaboration was key to implementing literacy into each classroom.
I would be excited for an opportunity to work with you!
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Teaching is an art and a science--it is ever changing. Each student has different needs and I am quick to adapt my teaching style to fit their needs. Currently, I work with 9th-grade English and 11th-grade honors English students. When students are asked to read, most of the time they feel that they read to learn, rather than learn to read. Unfortunately, there is a small percentage of students who have difficulty with reading and formulating a response based on readings. When students struggle, I model how to draft, revise, and complete a piece of writing work. I do not assume that a student has been shown these processes in writing. I also do the following: I confer with students about their writing work--including editing, revising, making suggestions, and eliciting their feedback; provide scaffolding throughout their writing; Include graphic organizers, prompts, and clear directions; and remember, writing is not a linear process. Overall, the model allows teachers to adapt the writing process as needed for each student.
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- £29,498
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- 5h: £145
- 10h: £290
online
- £29,498/h
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$20/hour
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