Diane S.
- Plant City, FL 33563 ( 22.9 mi )
- French Tutor
- Female
- Member Since: 11/2007
- Will travel up to 20 miles
- Rates from $39.00 to $47.00 /hr
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I have worked with students from age 7 to 25, and have loved each age group for different reasons. My standpoint is that a teacher acts like a mentor in a student's life, not as a nurse. They don't provide solutions, but provide the circumstances which will lead a child to figuring out the solution on his/her own. An approach which I have used while teaching college students, and which has been the one I have had the most success with is the "Observing/Verifying/Deducting Approach" used mostly when learning grammar. If a student is learning to add an 's' to plural nouns, he/she would read a sentence which demonstrates the usage of this rule. "Mary has one pen. John has three pens. But Peter has many pens." The 's' could be written in bold, and we could ask the student, "Why is there an 's' here"? We then move on to the Observing part where the rule is explained and the Verifying part, wh ... read more