To achieve learning is a mission, not a job.
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I earn student trust by using creative and innovative methods to make them comfortable.
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When my student feels cared for and relaxed, they are open to the learning experience.
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I enhance lessons with my storytelling ability and humor.
How We Succeed
My clients come to me because of my years of experience helping children struggling with learning a new language. I use the child's talents to help them succeed and to show them what they can do. My highly effective teaching techniques remove fears and barriers to language.
Reading
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I build on the student's familiarity with patterns from their native language.
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I focus on combinations of consonants and vowels.
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I use cartoons and visual cues to make it memorable.
Writing
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I highlight patterns to teach basic grammatical structures.
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I present funny pictures to encourage writing.
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I build on the writing patterns from the student's native language.
Conversation
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I set up challenging situations which call for conversation.
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We expand the student's descriptive vocabulary.
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We diminish the foreign accent using rhythmic phrases.
Parents Educational Guidance
You see your child is struggling: Confusion about classroom content, hesitant reading, difficulty in speaking, homework refusal. Are you frustrated, and wishing you knew how to help? I listen and offer suggestions tailored to your child and home, to make the learning process more successful and comfortable.
Support
I advise parents on how to create a positive, educationally-sound home environment, throughout the school year.
Resources for Parents
We use my years of experience to create a coordinated plan for the parents, teachers and student to address the issues that are preventing student advancement.
Special Needs
Students have diverse needs and learning timelines. My warm, welcoming, experienced one-on-one instruction gives them the tools which support learning challenges and the skills to improve interaction with classmates. It is the triumph of diversity in action.
Our Clients Say
“Naomi is amazing!!! She has been working with my son over Zoom and he’s doing great, thank GD!!! We live in NY, but hope to make aliyah in the near future, GD willing!!! We wanted to get our son started on learning conversational Hebrew. Naomi was a perfect fit!!! We really could not be happier!!!💕”
Goldie Leib, NYC, NY