TUTOR SPOTLIGHT: BROOKE WILLIAMS
Name: Brooke Williams
Areas of Focus:
My main focus is with students who struggle in academics and/or behavior. I have many strategies that are beneficial to students who struggle with reading, math, focus, and social skills. My background is working with students who have a range of needs such as ADHD, Autism, Gifted, and Dyslexia. I am also Peak's primary evaluator for Comprehensive Educational Evaluations.
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TUTOR SPOTLIGHT: KERRILEE WING
We are so proud of our amazing team and would like to spotlight one tutor each month to share more about them. This month we are featuring Kerrliee Wing.
Areas of Focus:
Most of my thirteen years in the classroom have been in elementary and middle school grades. I have supported students in Spalding phonics for the past three years and I love working with my middle school students in lit/comp, grammar, and sentence diagramming! As a special educator, I enjoy helping students to develop strategies in the areas of executive functioning, task completion, and handwriting. My favorite grade levels to teach math are fourth and fifth, where we focus on fractions, geometry, and pre-algebra concepts.
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TEACHING FRACTIONS WITH THE COMMON CORE
There are several shifts in the way fractions are presented in grades three through six, in the new Common Core Standards. Recently, Education Weekhas published several articles about these changes; however, as long ago as August of 2011 other sources, such as Hung-Hsi Wu, have published related information.
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REFLECTIONS ON TEACHING
I am blessed to have a profession that I love. I get to spend months in Zurich (Switzerland), Maycomb (Alabama), floating down the Mississippi, working the fields in Salinas (California), practicing survival skills on a remote island during World War II, stirring cauldrons with witches on a heath in Scotland, watching fairies dance in the woods, defending the existence of books in the future, chasing a raven from a chamber door, navigating the horrors of Nazi camps, and journeying through the final months of a beloved professor's life. All that considered, it gets better. I get to be tour guide, taking along for the ride students whose curiosity and enthusiasm are the glitter on an already bright adventure.
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MANAGING SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS
The school year is over, finally! Long lazy days, kids sleeping in, and thoughts of escaping the heat fill the minds of every parent. Then WHAM! Reality sets in; your child has summer assignments to complete. Oh, the torture! You ask yourself, “Why do we have to do this?” and “How am I going to get my child to complete them?” Well, we have some answers for you.
SAVOR THE STRUGGLE
I love to see kids struggle. Let me rephrase that: I love to see a child persevere through a challenging task and enjoy a sense of accomplishment when he says, “I did it myself!” It has taken me thirteen years of teaching and sixteen years of parenting to learn the value of independent task completion and how to put aside my ego to let students fail and succeed.