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Alice's Tutoring specializes in K-8 educational services in math, reading intervention, social thinking, play-based infant speech, and emotional regulation. Alice has a master's degree and California teaching credential in special education. She has 10 years experience in both private and public school classrooms with three additional credentials, one for teaching students with autism, one for speech and language, and another for teaching English language learners. She has received extensive training on how to teach reading using Orton Gillingham methodology. She has also written and illustrated three decodable books to support parents in teaching their children how to read. Our books can be ordered through Amazon.
One of our goals is to support students in developing their ability for self-regulation. The curriculums chosen for this course are The Zones of Regulation, SuperFlex, and "How Does Your Engine Run?" Our self-regulation course will help student identify and use tools to attain the right level of self-regulation for any given situation, although we primarily focus on the right level alertness for academic work. In the social thinking class, we work with students on understanding other's perspectives through social thinking, social situation mapping, and problem-solving skills.
We believe that all students can learn and enjoy math. We foster a growth mindset in mathematics which means helping students take risks, learn from mistakes, and stick with challenges. Students who adopt this mindset show more persistence and success in math. Teaching math through the big ideas helps students see patterns, make connections, and build lasting understanding. Our brains are wired to think visually about math so we use visual models helps students build deeper understanding, confidence, and flexible reasoning. We rely heavily on Jo Boaler's Mindset Mathematics in our math instruction.
Alice also received the Education Specialist Instruction Credential: Language and Academic Development. This authorizes her teach students with expressive or receptive language disorders with academic communication and language needs in the following areas: language development, school readiness and social skills, and literacy development. She also received the Hanen program It Takes Two to Talk certification. This program forms the basis of her speech instruction methodology. The goal of her speech program is to promote children’s social, language and literacy development during everyday activities through play-based instruction.
