Adult Basic Education Teacher
Sacramento, California Area
Strengthened basic reading techniques such as, recognizing and using common compound words, abbreviations, contractions, prefixes, suffixes, antonyms, synonyms, homonyms, and roots.Defined unfamiliar vocabulary through the use of context clues, identified the main idea of a paragraph, and sequence of ideas/events.Applied reading skills to life situations, such as warranties, rental agreements, labels and employee handbooks.Taught addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of whole numbers, decimals, per cents and fractions.Interpreted charts, graphs, maps and schedules and solved every day verbal and written math problems.Analyzed simple patterns and chose the appropriate mathematical operations in a given situation.Compared units of measurement, made price comparisons and listed steps to solve problems.