Tutoring Specialties

Autism, ADD & ADHD, Dyslexia, Learning Disabilities, Students with varying disabilities, Gifted/Advanced population, EL (English Learners)

Bio

Hello, My name is Mary Scott. I have taught in Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, KY for over 30 years. After 28 years in the classroom full time, I retired and became an interventionist at a JCPS school. As a former struggling learner myself, I believe that students learn best when you regularly monitor their progress in a scientific and systematic way. A teacher must learn where the child's level is using assessments for baseline data and then from there design instruction that best fits the child being tutored. All children need to feel you care about them before they will care about what you're teaching. I think starting the first few sessions getting to know the student pays big dividends in the future. Teaching is a mixture of science and art. The science part involves data collection and observing the student and the art is being creative and thinking outside the box when it comes to planning lessons.

Teacher Specialization

Even after 30 years, I try to keep lessons fresh and up to date with the trends in children's lives. I like to use Pokémon in math lessons, some of my advanced students did a math lesson on different kinds of angles and other geometric concepts and they planned out their own putt-putt- golf course. I like to culminate a concept by having them apply what they learned to create something to show for it. I have used JamBoard during the pandemic to teach students in an afterschool program that was part of a Non-profit. Concepts in reading such as theme, genres and inferences are taught in ways such as picking one object that best represents the theme of the text, creating a short dialogue as thought the character was on a talk show, making a report card for the character and justifying the grades with information from the text. I use reader's theater scripts, kid jokes and kid appropriate songs to work on fluency. I just love kids and love watching them that learning can be fun.

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