Teaching Background
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Lindamood-Bell Learning Programs: Seeing Stars, Visualizing & Verbalizing, LiPs
Handwriting Without Tears
Davis Dyslexia Symbol Imagery
Educational Therapy Certificate Program: UC Riverside Department of Education
Experience
Classroom Teaching: Kindergarten through Third grade classroom teacher for 6 years. K-8th grades substitute teacher if you want to go way back.
Tutoring Center: After school tutor at a Marin County tutoring center for 3 years
Private Practice: Opened my own private practice in 2000. This is my favorite job!
Principles of my Educational Therapy Practice
- Provide interventions promoting literacy that enable the child to access education across all curriculum.
- Learn about the child’s interests, feelings, experiences, and views to respect the child’s individuality and promote positive sense of self.
- Empower the student and parents to work with me to make decisions
about the best interventions that will help the child function in natural
settings.
- Work on the child’s areas of weakness while identifying and helping the
child develop his or her strengths.
- Teach organizational skills and help the child choose ways to organize
himself or herself to maximize learning and independence.
- Encourage the child to reach for higher levels of mastery and deeper
levels of learning as sequential increments of mastery are achieved.
