What We Do
- Identify the problem (with both parent AND child)
- Assess the need
- Establish the required standard
- Establish the current standards
- Provide a tailored programme to move to the required standard
- Ensure full adherence to the relevant curriculum
- Maximise the opportunity for examination success
- Provide a costed programme of tutoring
- Deliver the tutoring to client specification and convenience
- Review progress with parents regularly
Timing
Timing is sometimes crucial - if a problem arises in the run-up to an exam,
it can mean an intensive effort to be ready in time. That may impact on when
and how often we need to meet with the child,
Generally however, it's not so pressured, and we can build the programme around
what suits you best. Evenings are the most popular, perhaps immediately after school.
We can offer the programme as a home based series of visits, or sometimes
geography will allow the child to visit the tutor, if this is a better solution.
Whatever your needs, we can usually find a solution.
How We Do It
What we do is share your desire to see a child makes the best of his or her opportunities.
We like to talk to both parent and child in the first instance. Its important
to strike a good rapport, and through that to establish if the learning issue
is simply a missing basic building block for the subject, or if the approach is causing
a problem, or perhaps if there are personality issues affecting a particular class or
lesson. We also like to clearly identify the start point, and the desired end
point - often an exam in a subject.
Talking to the parents is also essential - they may be able to contribute a great deal
to the solution, either through the extra help they can offer with a tutors guidance,
or in the way they deal with the problem. The best of us can be frustrated by lack of
progress when we know just how bright our kids are, and unwittingly apply pressure.
Once we can see what the issue is, we can consider the best way to tackle it. Knowing
that start point, we can then draw all the threads together and work on all aspects.
That will produce actions for parent, child and tutor, within a programme which will
be given to you to consider.
Then it's up to you !