Tutor in Bronx, NY 10458

Hello, my name is Michelle. My level of education is NYS Certified ESL in Education for Adult. I am an employee in the NYC Public School as a Certified Substitute Teacher. I have taught the Early Intervention as well as Pre-K and Early Childhood Education for the Department of Education as a Teacher. When I am working with a scholar I model the work for the student and to make sure he/she understands the work I ask him/her to repeat the work back to me. I also instruct the student in low functioning setting to recall through a picture walk while verbally expressing what it is. I work extremely hard to have the children on grade level by the time school year end with instructional materials.

When I am teaching Phonics, I read the directions thoroughly because I want my student/s to understand what he/she or they have to do. I take all the time I need on that lesson with my scholars so they can understand the concept. It's all about the student understanding what he/she/or they are doing. For example: "Beginning Sounds," I will show multiple pictures to the student/s with the same beginning sounds and maybe one or two pictures with a different beginning sound just so the student can hear and differentiate the different sounds. I will always model the lesson to the student/s first.

Next I will have a student to come to the front of the class and model it for his/her peers. Then, I will have two students to come to the front of the class and one student will be the teacher and the student who is being the teacher will model the lesson to the other student.

When the students can model the lesson that I have explained to them to each other then I know they understand the concept of beginning sounds. Once the Beginning Sounds have been mastered by the students then I can move on to introduce another topic.