Virtual, At your home, or Being Home schooled: Preschool to ninth grade tutoring services that are just right!

At VAB Tutoring, your child will be given the individualized instruction and attention to build not only academic skills, but self confidence. Your child will be engaged in age appropriate lessons, including hands on activities, to build greater understanding.

Each lesson is designed to meet your child’s own unique strengths and needs while incorporating individual interests. Lessons incorporate school curriculum content as well as other foundational teaching techniques and instructions based on over fifteen years of teaching experience! Homework support is also available during each tutoring session.

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Why VAB Tutoring

Professional Teaching Licenses: Master and Bachelor in Education

Personalized Reading, Writing, and/or Math lessons

Complimentary 20 minute risk free online intial meeting

Consistent communication with parents/guardians

Individual or small group options, up to 3 students and within one grade level

Tutoring at your own home in person, and/or online options

Tutoring for public/private, or homeschooled students

Twenty years teaching experience in public and private schools and tutoring experience

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Tutoring Service Options

A) One-on-one tutoring session(s)

B) Small Group session(s)

C) Vitual/Online One-on-one tutoring session(s)

D) Vitual/Online One-on-one tutoring session(s)

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Tutoring Service Locations

At home tutoring services for the towns/cities of: Acton, Berlin, Bolton, Hudson, Lancaster, Marlborough, Maynard, Northborough, Shrewsbury, Sterling, Stow, Wayland, Westborough, Weston.

Approach

An age appropriate learning approached is used that incorporates a multi-sensory approach. This multi-sensory approach includes use of concrete manipulatives, visual supports, mnemonics, paired with verbal instruction and practice. Examples of manipulatives for math include unifix cubes, place value chips as well as Elkonin boxes and phonetic objects for reading younger students. This also includes visuals from place value charts and fraction cards to prefix and suffix charts for older students.

Testimonials

"Ms. Biglow has been tutoring our daughter, she is very professional, organized and always on time. Ms. Biglow makes learning fun for our daughter who can’t wait for her next lesson. We have seen such an amazing growth in our daughter’s confidence and improvement with our child in school. We can’t thank VAB tutoring/ Ms. Biglow enough, she is amazing, patient and kind with our daughter!" Leonora M

"Thank you for all your help with the girls." Cristina P.

"Our son had a hard time with the basic Reading Comprehension skills - identifying the main idea of a paragraph or a story, be able to retell beginning, middle and ending of a paragraph coupled with a poor vocabulary. Ms. Biglow is very professional in every aspect- she was very well prepared for her first session, readily identified his challenges and was very willing to work with his school teachers and generalize the strategies used in school to make tutoring more successful. I also very much appreciate the detailed feedback given at the end of each session, it gives me an insight into what our son is working on each week and be able to collaboratively work with his school based on the feedback provided. I also like the fact that Ms Biglow integrates games in their sessions so its not monotonous and makes it more fun. We are very happy with Ms Biglow and her professionalism. School has noted good improvement in overall reading comprehension skills from the last parent teacher meeting and we believe she has a big role to play in that. We look forward to working with Ms Biglow in the future as well and highly recommend her." Shefali W.


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Philosophy

VAB Tutoring is here to support your child on the path of lifelong learning. Individualized attention is given to support the whole child by focusing on each child’s unique strengths and needs as well as interests to not only build skills, but also a desire to learn. Whether it is reading, writing, or math, your child will be engaged in activities and lessons that correspond to foundational and essential concepts and skills to move towards greater understanding and confidence. Your child’s individual interests are taken into consideration to provide extra incentive, motivation and fun while learning! Your child’s education is taken seriously, but is delivered in fun child centered way!

Educational Background and Experience

Teaching Experience:
Inclusion Grades Kindergarten, First Grade,and Second Grade
Special Education Learning Center Grades Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade
Preschool Lead Teacher Ages 3-5
Substitute Teaching Kindergarten to Fifth Grade Paraprofessional in grades K to Fifth Grade

Qualifications:
Early Childhood Professional License: Students with and without Disabilities Pre-K-2: Students with and without Disabilities Masters Degree in Early Childhood Pre-K –2: Students with and without Disabilities Graduated with a 4.0 QPA Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Pre-K –2 Students with and without Disabilities Graduated Summa Cum Laude

Tutoring Experience:
Preschool to Fifth Grade

Curriculum Experience:
Reading:Fundations, Project Read, Lively Letters, Words Their Way, Daily 5 and CAFÉ Strategies
Writing:Lucy Calkins, Mary Ellen Giacobbe, Handwriting Without Tears
Math:EngageNY Math, Math & Focus, Kathy Richardson

Events

Empowering Your Child’s Body and Mind: Nutrition & Academics Event

Thank you to everyone who attended our Empowering Your Child’s Body and Mind: Nutrition & Academics Event! A special thank you to Rose and Marcia of Good Earth Holistic Kitchen for hosting and co-presenting at this event with me/VAB Tutoring! We had such a wonderful time with great discussions and questions! Sorry to those who are not in the group photo including Marcia! We were all in wonderful conversations and almost forgot to take pictures!