Tutoring Services
Gayle
Weinand has a California Teaching
Credential with a BCLAD, emphasis in Spanish. She has also obtained a
Master of Arts in Education from Concordia University in Irvine, Ca specializing
in the effects of movement on learning. Gayle has taught a wide arrangement
of ages including: preschool, second, third, fourth grade, and junior
high school students. Gayle served in Costa Rica, Central America for
fifteen years and taught in a second grade classroom for six of them.
She brings these experiences into her classroom daily. Gayle worked with
the Brain Gym program in her classroom this past year and successfully
increased test scores across the board for most all of her fourth grade
students. It is her desire to bring this program to all students in order
to improve their learning potential and increase their test scores in
a variety of subjects.
Laura
Heyne received her B.A. in English
from Concordia University in Irvine, California in 2005. She spent her first
year out of college teaching ninth, tenth, and twelfth grade English classes
at Saddleback Valley Christian Schools in San Juan Capistrano, California.
She has also completed courses at the University of California, Riverside
in AP Vertical Training and attended seminars at the annual ACSI Convention.
It was during her experience of teaching in a classroom that Laura recognized
a need for students to receive extra help in writing, literary analysis,
and reading skills. The most frustrating realizations within her classroom
were that she could not individually work with the students that need extra
help without neglecting the rest of the class. Sometimes students need personal
attention, especially with their writing, because of a teacher going too
fast, not explaining properly, or the student is tired and unable to pay
attention. Writing is an essential tool needed for college as well as the
rest of life. It is in response to her classroom experience and a deep love
for children that Laura has created a formula for writing an essay that
most every student understands and is able to utilize.