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Melissa Sandfort

Melissa's specialty is using unconventional tools for self-transformation to help middle and high school students achieve their goals in school, without sacrificing who they are as whole, authentic human beings.

Résumé

Education

• 3.9 GPA in double English major (literature and writing), B.A. with Honors, Northwestern University, 1993
• M.A., School of Communication, Northwestern University, expected 2005
• GRE verbal score, top 1% of the country

Experience

Private Tutor
• reading, writing, grammar, English, French, Spanish, science, history, health, geography, study skills
• SAT, ACT, and college application essays
• Résumés, cover letters, job applications and interviewing skills
• Experience with ADD/ADHD, NVLD, ESL, gifted, home schooling
• Focus on long-term commitments to 5th -12th grade and adult students

Speed Reading Instructor
• Northwestern University, Depaul University, University of Illinois: Teach two-hour workshops which increase comprehension, speed, concentration, and memory. Course unanimously rated highly effective

SAT Verbal Test Preparation Instructor
• The Princeton Review, Korean Community Services Center: Used speed reading, vocabulary games, and practice in analogies, reading passages, and sentence completions to raise verbal scores on the SAT

Clinical/Communication Skills Instructor
• Northwestern University Medical School: Instructed medical students, residents and doctors in clinical interview/clinical skills

Writing Instructor
• Korean Community Services Center After-School: Taught 1-12 grade grammar and prose; 100% school grade improvement

Study Skills Lecturer
• Northwestern University Career Development Center: Presented well-received five-part series of one-hour workshops

Training

• Speed Reading. 160 hours, Institute for Reading Development, 1995
• Professional Energy Healer. 220 hours, Dahn Institute, 2003
• Internal Family Systems Psychotherapy Training. 200 hours, Center for Self Leadership, 2004
• Co-Active Personal Coaching. 120 hours, Coaches Training Institute