Tutoring Advantage was founded by Joan Robertson in 2006. Joan is a licensed teacher, trained in the Orton-Gillingham method and specializes in Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and learning disabilities.
Joan attended Bemidji State University where she earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Elementary Education with a math emphasis in November 1992. In May of 1992 she completed her kindergarten student teaching and kindergarten intercultural course work at Vaxjo University in Sweden. She later went on to complete course work in all four levels of the Orton-Gillingham Method through the Upper Midwest Branch of the International Dyslexia Association, Orton-Gillingham of Minnesota and Hamline University.
Joan started her teaching career as an enrichment and remedial kindergarten reading teacher in Bloomington, Minnesota. She worked for 5 years as a special education kindergarten teacher at Groves Academy in St. Louis Park Minnesota. She continued her passion to help students in the Hopkins & Robinsdale School Districts as a reading and math tutor. Before beginning in private practice she worked as an academic therapist with the Integrative Medicine Clinic at Children's Hospital in Minneapolis and Park Nicollet Alexander Center in Eden Prairie.
I offer both online and in-person tutoring out of my home office in Bloomington, MN. I have additional training in the following programs:
Orton Gillingham Method
Wilson Reading (Orton-Gillingham Based)
Remediation Plus (Orton-Gillingham Based)
Barton Reading Program (Orton-Gillingham Based)
Kansas Writing Strategies
Read Naturally
Handwriting Without Tears
Study Tools
Singapore Math
Bemidji State University
Bachelors
Elementary Education
1991
Hamline University
Enrolled
Oroton Gillingham Reading
2006
Math
English
Language
Other
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