Miss Kathy's English Tutoring

First, I ask the student about his/her interests and hobbies.  I then incorporate these interests and hobbies in every avenue which will help the student grasp the concept at hand. This process also makes the new student more comfortable because he/she has had the opportunity to talk about himself/herself.

I have had many workshops about ESOL and opportunities to work one-on-one with ESOL students.  I have also worked with them in a large classroom setting.

I always wanted to teach.  As a little girl, I would teach my dolls or younger children in my neighborhood who would play school with me.  I lived next door to a teacher and I would borrow a teacher book from her. I was happiest when I was playing school.  It was a natural progression for me to major in education.

I have worked with mainstream, ESOL students and Special Ed students.

Recently, I flew to Omaha to visit my daughter and her family.  She has three children and I was able to spend quality time with each of them.  My four-year-old grandddaughter stayed home with me one day.  We decorated snowflakes with sparkly jewelry-type stickers and I made a head from a paper plate by gluing skin-colored paper over the paper plate. I then added googly eyes and, using a marker, I drew the nose and mouth.  I cut different-size wavy streamers from construction paper and glued the long streamers on the back of the "head" and the short streamers above the googly eyes on the front.  The streamers represented hair and the ones above the eyes represented bangs.  I then gave my granddaughter a pair of safety scissors and she cut the "hair".  How much fun was that?

I would advise the student to look for someone who made them feel good about themselves.