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Iyabo is a Language Arts educator and a cinematographer and director of both documentary and narrative films. Besides speaking her native English, she is also proficient in French, Spanish, and fluent in Portuguese. Iyabo used her training in film to design and implement a film-based curriculum to students in California and Brazil. Iyabo received her BA from Spelman College with Read more...
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I am a certified elementary teacher with a Master’s in Teaching and additional coursework in reading instruction, as well as a background in science and the arts. I currently am working as a Teacher in the Library at a branch of the Chicago Public Library (through a program that places certified teachers in libraries), tutoring students after school. I absolutely Read more...
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I am a certified teacher with 16 years of teaching experience and nearly seven years of tutoring experience, specializing in preparing students for the ACT and SAT. I have a solid history of results with students typically making gains of 5-8 points on their ACT composite, and increases of between 150-300 points on their SAT total scaled score. I also Read more...
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Greetings! I am interested in helping your child be a successful, independent learner within the classroom setting. My extensive background in teaching has been in not only nursery school (endorsement area for my Bachelor’s of Arts in Education), but in Primary Grades (second, third, and fifth), as well as Middle School (sixth grade). During my years teaching (more than 10 Read more...
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Hi! My name is Kelliann, and I have been a special education teacher for the last 20 years. I’ve supplemented my teaching with tutoring, serving as the PTA co-president at my children’s school, and working toward my doctorate in educational psychology. I have my BA in elementary education, my MeD in special education, my CAS (Certificate of Advanced Study-a few Read more...
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Hello! I am a newly retired middle school Language Arts teacher. I have taught at the same Skokie public school for the last 18 years. During that time, I have worked with 6th, 7th and 8th grade students. The school district where I was employed has a diverse student population, representing a wide range of student skills, abilities and interests.I Read more...
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Before I began teaching, I was fortunate enough to spend a year with two master teachers, attend the Chicago Area Writing Project, attending a Dorothy Heathcote drama institute, and participating in a progressive education conference in Europe. These conferences solidified what I had already learned. My experience with writing lead me to give numerous writing workshops over the years in Read more...
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I am an experienced French tutor. I graduated from Loyola University Chicago in May 2016 with a B.A. in French. I have taken French for 12 years (or ever since third grade in elementary school). I have read many novels in French, including En Attendant Godot, L’√©tranger, Germinal and Le Fant√¥me de l’Op√©ra. I have studied a wide variety of Read more...
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As a college/University Professor in English, Reading, English Language Education, I have taught extensively students of all backgrounds starting from K-12 to University. I also have taught ESL and ELL students. I can use my dual Masters in English and Linguistics and Ph.D in Language Education in teaching English, Reading, Language Arts, study Skills, Reading, Composition, and more. I can Read more...
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Hello! As a tutor of all things verbal, I bring a wide range of experience and training. I hold an MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. I did two years of additional graduate work in Comparative Literature at Kent State and I studied English and American Literature with a concentration in Modern Literature Read more...
