Amber Quirt

I worked for a few months with a middle aged African American single mother who needed to pass GED and had problems with all aspects of mathematics. She needed to cover fractions, operations with decimals, graphing, algebraic equations involving variables, and calculation of percentages. We went through a GED study book she acquired for testing and we covered all the sections she felt were her weakest concepts. We met in person on her off days and perused all her material, as I demonstrated how to solve each type of problem and provided her additional equations to work beside me to ensure she was understanding each concept.

I assisted with a female high school senior successfully testing out and passing all of her courses so that she was able to graduate. We met in person at the beginning and also later worked remotely by phone. Her main areas of focus included, but were not limited to, algebra, biology, and U.S. and world history. As a young single hispanic mother about to age out of foster care support services, this student needed to avail herself of government contracted and paid tutoring so she could graduate and get into a criminal justice program to help care for her son.

I worked for about one half of the semester with a young mixed raced 16 year old boy to help him pass his repeated 10th grade. As he was was poor in reading skills, I had to help him by reading aloud some of his daily material and prompt him as he then completed his coursework each day. I work 5 days a week 4-5 hours, like a regular school day almost, assisting him mainly with math, world history, English, biology, and a type of career/business preparation class. We worked in person each day and progressed through his online home school curriculum with K-12 classes. He passed all his courses and we would've continued the next year but his father had to work constracting abroad and we had no reliable transportation to meet each day after that.

I privately tutored a 9 year old young Caucasian boy in person to help him with reading and memory retention skills and increase his vocabulary. He had difficulty with focus (I believe he was ADD) and so we had to spend more time, involve more visual teaching aids and repetitive practice, as well as use assistive demonstrative aids and songs to help his memory retention.

I performed a variety of tasks, including (but not limited to) supervising the safe recreational play of children ages 5-17, taking the children outside during good weather for lunch/snacks and ensuring their safety, teaching a crafts class during the summertime for three different age groups: 6-7 years, 8-9 years, and 10 and up. In this position I also taught the children at the recreation center how to play various games, held special game days with prizes and communicated with the parents of the children and encouraged the development of social skills with their peers, as well as with the adults employed along with me. At times, the children might ask me to help them with their homework or read some words from their required reading and explain what the words meant, as they were confused or unfamiliar with the terms. On other occasions, I was asked to supervise room rentals during non-recreation operation hours, teach a storytime/craft teaching class for 3-5 year olds, perform minor medical aid like bandages, ice packs, and antiseptics when the children suffered minor injuries, and also assisted in their senior program with supervision of the monthly bingo/board game day.