Education/Credentials

  • Award-Winning Teacher

  • M.S. Education

  • B.S. Elementary Education

  • International TEFL Academy Certification

  • International Multi-Sensory Language Education Certification

  • NYS Teaching Certification

  • NYS Students with Disabilities Certification

  • Trained by President of International Dyslexia Association

Experience

Private Teacher:  Hamptons, NY (2010 - Present)

Personal academic coach and mentor for children of acclaimed celebrities, actors, and other families in the Hamptons and New York City


Learning Specialist:  Hamptons, NY (2007 - Present); Preschool - Grade 10

Teach students who attend competitive, special education, and alternative schools in NYC

Provide Orton-Gillingham instruction for beginning readers and students with language-based challenges

  • Teach skills in building block fashion to build a strong foundation of early literacy skills, enabling children to read words without error, reducing and/or eliminating memorization

  • Phonemic awareness, auditory/visual processing

  • Visualizing, making connections, decoding

  • Comprehension, inferences, fluency

  • Handwriting, spelling, sentence construction


Use Hochman Method for writing instruction

  • Evidence-based, scaffolded, explicit writing instruction

  • Sentences as building blocks of writing (fragments vs complete)

  • Grammar, vocabulary development

  • Focus on content knowledge

  • Deeper level comprehension, analytical thinking

  • Literal and interpretive meaning of text

  • Executive functioning skills

  • Produce clear, coherent, fluent compositions and essays


On-Set Tutor:  On Location Education, New York, NY (2016 – Present)

Assist young performers with subject-specific assignments during production of independent films and television shows including Billions, The Affair, Younger, Beastie Boy Story, and others


EFL Teacher: Cambridge International School for Girls; Qatar, Middle East (2016)

Taught Middle Eastern kindergarten and primary students in private school

  • Integrated English language with core subjects of IB PYP curriculum through various techniques

  • Communicative Language Teaching

  • Content-Based Instruction

  • Multi-Sensory Language


International TEFL Academy, NY (2015)

Utilized latest teaching methodologies acquired through TEFL Academy

(gold standard in TEFL certification, exceeding international requirements)


ESOL Teacher: Ross School: East Hampton, NY (2012-2014): Middle and High School

Used SIOP Model of Instruction to teach English to ESOL students

  • Adapted content/language objectives to accommodate proficiency levels

  • Integrated English with Ross spiral curriculum

  • Students’ native countries represented: China, Korea, Russia, France, Turkey, Italy, Brazil, Japan


Private Education Specialist: Sag Harbor, NY (2008 – 2010)  

Worked with a high functioning student on the autism spectrum to improve literacy skills, complete subject-specific assignments, and learn components of essay writing

Certified Teacher: Child Development Center of the Hamptons: Wainscott, NY (Grade 5)

Provided developmentally appropriate instruction for students with disabilities using strategies that reflected research-based practices required by IDEA

  • Used behavioral strategies and various techniques to teach a student with childhood disintegrative disorder

  • Simple, concise language; scaffolding; immediate feedback

  • Intensive/repetitive instruction using visual/multi-sensory cues

  • Collaborated with IEP teams to review academic achievement and develop measurable goals

  • Determined modifications, accommodations, adaptations

  • Monitored academic achievement, functional performance, promoted strengths

EFL Teacher: St Barthelemy, French West Indies (Grades K-5)

Taught English to native French-speaking children

Certified Teacher: Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Glen Cove, NY (Grades PreK-4)

Adapted curriculum to meet individual learning styles of children

EFL Teacher: Colombia, South America (Grades K-5)

Taught English to native Spanish-speaking children

Director of Early Childhood Development: CarePlus Health Plan, New York, NY 

Developed and implemented an innovative program ~ the only one of its kind in the country and recipient of the AAHP National Award for its literacy component.

  • Collaborated with Harvard-based, world-renowned child development expert, T. Berry Brazelton, MD, and Harvard-based child psychiatrist, Joshua Sparrow, MD

  • Wrote policies and procedures aimed to strengthen intellectual, language, emotional, social development

  • Created a fundamental component to instill foundation for early literacy