
Fun Facts
My current hobbies include composing books, songs, and poems, reading, giving speeches, teaching sermons, singing karaoke, conducting research, tutoring, playing televised and online games, watching game shows, watching movies, playing pool/snooker, bowling, volleyball, soccer, basketball, tennis, attending cultural events, doing impersonations, and playing music.
About Me
I am a certified and qualified teacher with 25 years of professional teaching experience, 10 years of substitute teaching experience, and 10 years of experience as a Y.M.C.A senior group leader in Broward County's After School programs, and 30 years of private tutoring experience in all basic subjects from elementary to college levels.
I use a variety of teaching techniques and strategies and I can take simple and seemingly difficult concepts and skills and simplify them using various pneumonic devices, graphic organizers, manipulatives, songs I write, role-playing, academic games, music, and movement. As a result, I have seen significant learning gains in practically all of my students over the years.
Experience
I am a certified and qualified teacher with 25 years of professional teaching experience, 10 years of substitute teaching experience, and 10 years of experience as a Y.M.C.A senior group leader in Broward County's After School programs, and 30 years of private tutoring experience in all basic subjects from elementary to college levels.
Approach
I use a variety of teaching techniques and strategies and I can take simple and seemingly difficult concepts and skills and simplify them using various pneumonic devices, graphic organizers, manipulatives, songs I write, role-playing, academic games, music, and movement. As a result, I have seen significant learning gains in practically all of my students over the years.
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Elementary Education K-6 with ESOL Endorsement
Bachelor of Arts in Education
English Tutoring
I am a qualified and certified educator for 25 years who have taught students of various ages in all subjects, including English. I have experience teaching students test-taking strategies with regards to reading short and long passages and correcting passages with errors in conventions. I teach my students how to recognize differences between topic sentences and theses and how to determine the mood, style, and types of passages they are reading.
Middle School Math Tutoring
I am a qualified and certified teacher for Elementary K-8 for 25 years. I have the ability to simplify seemingly difficult concepts to make them much easier to understand using a variety of teaching techniques. I am also a great problem solver who ensures that his students understand every step of the process when solving math problems.
Math Tutoring
I am a qualified and certified teacher for Elementary K-8 for 25 years. I have the ability to simplify seemingly difficult concepts to make them much easier to understand using a variety of teaching techniques. I am also a great problem solver who ensures that his students understand every step of the process when solving math problems.
7th Grade Math Tutoring
I am a qualified and certified teacher for Elementary K-8 for 25 years. I have the ability to simplify seemingly difficult concepts to make them much easier to understand using a variety of teaching techniques. I am also a great problem solver who ensures that his students understand every step of the process when solving math problems.
Writing Tutoring
I have 25 years of teaching experience in Elementary Education K-8. I teach students how to write narratives, expository, and persuasive essays and how to recognize the author's purpose for writing; namely, to persuade, inform, entertain, or share ideas (P.I.ES.). In addition, I teach students the 5 steps of the writing process and the importance of each step in the process from the rough draft to the publishing stage.
Reading Tutoring
I have 25 years of teaching experience in Elementary Education K-8. In Reading, I teach students phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. I know how to teach students how to decode and use words. I also teach students how to recognize their graphical root meanings and how to use these words with the correct syntax in sentences and paragraphs. In addition, I also teach students how to comprehend passages according to the author's purpose and style.
French Tutoring
I taught French to Grades K-8 at a public school with great success. I had started using the Vive Le Francais curriculum to teach French. I excelled in French from elementary to high school with an A average grade.
Homework Coach Tutoring
I have worked as a homework coach in the YMCA Afterschool program for 10 years.
Additionally, I have worked as a Reading and Math Coach in the FCAT Saturday School Program.
Finally, I have devised homework schedules for several students and I explain about the importance of structure in the home in my published book called, "Guidelines for the Successful Student: A Closer Look at Parenting Your School-Aged Child" available now on amazon and through my business website- mrbtheteacher.com.
Elementary Math Tutoring
I am a qualified and certified teacher for Elementary K-8 for 25 years. I have the ability to simplify seemingly difficult concepts to make them much easier to understand using a variety of teaching techniques. I am also a great problem solver who ensures that his students understand every step of the process when solving math problems.
2nd Grade Math Tutoring
I am a qualified and certified teacher for Elementary K-8 for 25 years. I have the ability to simplify seemingly difficult concepts to make them much easier to understand using a variety of teaching techniques. I am also a great problem solver who ensures that his students understand every step of the process when solving math problems.
3rd Grade Math Tutoring
I am a qualified and certified teacher for Elementary K-8 for 25 years. I have the ability to simplify seemingly difficult concepts to make them much easier to understand using a variety of teaching techniques. I am also a great problem solver who ensures that his students understand every step of the process when solving math problems.
4th Grade Math Tutoring
I am a qualified and certified teacher for Elementary K-8 for 25 years. I have the ability to simplify seemingly difficult concepts to make them much easier to understand using a variety of teaching techniques. I am also a great problem solver who ensures that his students understand every step of the process when solving math problems.
5th Grade Math Tutoring
I am a qualified and certified teacher for Elementary K-8 for 25 years. I have the ability to simplify seemingly difficult concepts to make them much easier to understand using a variety of teaching techniques. I am also a great problem solver who ensures that his students understand every step of the process when solving math problems.
6th Grade Math Tutoring
I am a qualified and certified teacher for Elementary K-8 for 25 years. I have the ability to simplify seemingly difficult concepts to make them much easier to understand using a variety of teaching techniques. I am also a great problem solver who ensures that his students understand every step of the process when solving math problems.
Science Tutoring
In my 25 years of classroom teaching, I have taught K-8 students Earth, Life, and Physical Science. Students performed classroom experiments and they completed classroom and take-home projects which they were able to share and display in the classroom. They also enjoyed responding to videos, conduct cooperative discussions, and complete hand-on activities.
Social Studies Tutoring
In my 25 years of classroom teaching, I have taught K-8 students history, geography, civics, and economics Students have completed classroom and take-home projects which they were able to share and display in the classroom. They also enjoyed responding to videos, engage in cooperative discussions, and perform hand-on activities.
Study Skills Tutoring
I have worked as a homework coach in the YMCA Afterschool program for 10 years.
Additionally, I have worked as a Reading and Math Coach in the FCAT Saturday School Program.
Finally, I have talked exclusively about the importance of developing sound study skills with several students in my 25 years of teaching and I explain this in great detail in my published book called, "Guidelines for the Successful Student: A Closer Look at Parenting Your School-Aged Child" available now on amazon and through my business website- mrbtheteacher.com.
Religion Tutoring
Having been a bible scholar for 30 years myself, I have studied and read the entire Holy Bible twice and have analyzed it in terms of both the old and new testament periods. I have received an intermediate level certificate in Bible studies from my former church in 1990. I have been a Christian for most of my life and I was a member of Faith Alive Fellowship Center before the COVID pandemic.
I taught Religion to students in grades 2-5 in my last school for 6 years with great success. In addition, I have conducted many Chapel Service sermons and teachings in the school with student involvement and have led many staff and student chapel prayer devotion times.
Algebra Tutoring
I am a qualified and certified teacher for Elementary K-8 for 25 years. I have the ability to simplify seemingly difficult concepts to make them much easier to understand using a variety of teaching techniques. I am also a great problem solver who ensures that his students understand every step of the process when solving algebraic problems.
Reading Comprehension Tutoring
I have 25 years of teaching experience in Elementary Education K-8. In Reading, I teach students phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. I know how to teach students how to decode and use words. I also teach students how to recognize their graphical root meanings and how to use these words with the correct syntax in sentences and paragraphs. In addition, I also teach students how to comprehend passages according to the author's purpose and style.
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