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Teacher, Learning Handicapped & Regular Education

Fontana Unified School District, California, United States

Jan 1997 - Jun 2000

Learning Handicapped, Regular Education

I IDENTIFIED students whose skills were well above those of their Learning-Handicapped classmates' in math or English, and who as a result had been repeating the same mastered skills for years in the one-size-fits-all public-school teaching approach. I started special classes before & after school, during lunch and inside class, to bring these students to regular-education standards for entry into standard high-school classes the following year.

IN CONTRAST, I identified Middle-school students whose specialized needs had never been adequately identified nor addressed and so had never risen above reading their own name. I used unique, focused methods to bring these students to a reading level that could then be addressed by the more standard special-education teaching methods.

Teacher, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing

Fontana Unified School District, California, United States

Sep 1992 - Jan 1995

Regular, Special Education

Working with a highly-talented, dedicated Deaf teacher's assistant, we employed American Sign Language and a variety of informal and formal teaching techniques to meet the various educational needs of Pre-School through 1st-Grade Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing students. Their needs ranged from total language immersion to acquire language (some entered at 6-7 years of age with just a 20-word vocabulary), to socialization (they often used "language tantrums" to express their needs, lacking any language), to learning beginning reading, writing and math concepts. This was a most rewarding, intensive and creative teaching experience.

In 2000, after years of teaching in a variety of public- and private-school classes, I started my own private-tutoring business, and have taught ages from pre-school to adult, in subjects covering a wide range of skills in Math, Reading, Writing, Study-Skills, General Subjects, and Music.

SPECIALTIES - HIGHER MATH: I excel at identifying HIGHER-LEVEL MATH issues such as missing sub-skills, conceptual confusion, and organizational problems - from beginning math through Algebra I and II. I can teach Pre-Calculus given the problems 24 hours ahead-of-time.

SPECIALTIES - BEGINNING MATH: I can teach and remediate BEGINNING MATH skills such as basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), fractions, decimals, percents, etc. I can also teach (even online) more fundamental skills such as 1:1 correspondence and number-line structure.

SPECIALTIES - ADVANCED READING & WRITING: In READING, I can improve students' abilities to scan for information, comprehend, analyze and summarize texts, and apply the information to written assignments. In WRITING, I can improve students' ability to organize and clearly produce their thoughts on paper in a variety of styles such as creative stories, expository writing, persuasive essays, etc.

SPECIALTIES - BEGINNING READING & WRITING: I specialize in diagnosis and remediation of FUNDAMENTAL READING issues such as decoding (phonics and sight words), beginning reading comprehension, and mild to severe dyslexia problems. I also teach BASIC WRITING skills: grammar, writing mechanics, and topic/subtopic organization.

Post-Graduate Teaching Credentials

Victor Valley Jr College - University of California at San Diego - Univ. of California at Riverside, California, United States

Jan 1988 - Jun 1996

VICTOR VALLEY JR COLLEGE: MUSIC - I obtained an A.A. in Music (double-major in voice and piano)
RIVERSIDE COUNTY ROP: JOB TRAINING - I completed training as an electronics technician, together with certifications in Office Computing, Programming and Home Health Aide.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: ENGINEERING (and misc. Jr. Colleges for some lower-division courses) - I successfully completed four years of an Engineering Physics Major with a Computer Hardware Minor.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE: PROFESSIONAL CLEAR TEACHING CREDENTIALS - I obtained my Bachelor's in Human Development and completed all the teaching credentials (post-graduate) listed under "Professional Exams & Certifications" below.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT NORTHRIDGE: I successfully completed all coursework towards their Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing teaching credential

Clear Teaching Credentials

University of California at Riverside, California, United States

Year Of Passing: 1992

I have my Clear California Multiple Subjects Teaching Credential with Supplementals in Math, Computers, Science and Music, and Clear Specialist Credentials for Learning Handicapped and Severely Handicapped. I obtained an A.A. in Music (double-major of voice/piano), and later majored in Engineering Physics with a Computer Hardware Minor at UCSD, completing my Teaching Credentials at UCR.