About Teresa

I have 20 years of experience in education. I have an early childhood degree from Ferris State, an AMI Montessori certification through the Montessori Institute of San Diego, a masters in education through Loyola University, and I am Orton-Gillingham trained through the Michigan Dyslexia Institute and Central Michigan University. I can provide video demonstrations of my lessons upon request. Here's what I can offer: Math skills: linear counting, introduction to the decimal system, exchanging, introductory geometry, fraction operations with same denominator, operations into the millions, long division, introduction to squaring and cubing Writing skills: cursive, development of the hand for writing Reading skills: beginning encoding and decoding using the Orton-Gillingham Method, sound-symbol (phonics) lessons, syllable lessons, dyslexia support Grammar skills: noun, adjective, article, preposition, conjunction, verb, adverb and sentence analysis lessons