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Approach to helping with learning struggles - Education Tutor
Approach 3: Tutoring
Tutoring provides extra help with an academic subject area. Often this is the approach parents take when they learn their child is struggling with reading or academics.
In certain instances, tutoring works well: when a child has fallen behind, for example, after moving from school to school or because of an extended illness. Sometimes gaps in a student’s academic knowledge have developed for unknown reasons. Extra help can quickly correct the deficit.
Tutoring may help the child keep up in various subjects, but just keeping up effectively means that the student will never get beyond the need for extra help. The child often ends up wearing the “tutoring needed” label throughout his school career.
Approach to helping with learning struggles - Education Tutor
Approach 3: Tutoring
Tutoring provides extra help with an academic subject area. Often this is the approach parents take when they learn their child is struggling with reading or academics.
In certain instances, tutoring works well: when a child has fallen behind, for example, after moving from school to school or because of an extended illness. Sometimes gaps in a student’s academic knowledge have developed for unknown reasons. Extra help can quickly correct the deficit.
Tutoring may help the child keep up in various subjects, but just keeping up effectively means that the student will never get beyond the need for extra help. The child often ends up wearing the “tutoring needed” label throughout his school career.
Education Tutor – Is it the right choice?
If weak cognitive skills are the reason a child has fallen behind academically, however, tutoring will most likely just conceal the real problem. As a parent, if you see that your child is not doing better in the subjects being tutored or that tutoring is needed year after year, more than likely, underlying learning skills need strengthening.
Excerpts of the book Unlock the Enstein Inside by Dr. Ken Gibson
