Why Tutoring?
Everyone Requires Tutoring--- Sometimes
It can be as straightforward as a one-time test prep forum, a re-stating of the obvious, the application of an expansion technique, or providing an example. It can also be as complex and layered as reinforcing a behavior goal while assessing a students’ communication needs, expanding and building upon prior semesters work, reinforcing new concepts, or introducing an abstract concept. “Tutoring ranks with interpreting and note-taking as one in a triad of fundamental academic support services for deaf and hard of hearing … particularly among those in mainstreamed settings. (Instructors) Identified as providing services to these students during the 1989-93 period, two-thirds of American educational providers cited the use of tutoring as a special service to assist their deaf and hard of hearing students with their ongoing coursework,” according to the National Center for Educational Statistics (1994).
Parents:
Here are some signs indicating that your child may need a tutor: Continued failing grades in school. If your child is constantly making excuses as to why he or she is not doing homework. If they are unhappy in school or having academic and or social problems in general that you are aware of. Does the teacher send notes requesting that you meet at school because there of a disruptive behavior pattern. Patterns can be a bad report card in the first and second semesters, Unexcused absences or personality changes to name a few possible examples. Beginning in February through May is when most parents take action and get a tutor because they don't want their child in summer school or to repeat a grade," Gordon says. There are no lazy children; Laziness is a symptom. There are many things from home life to academic stresses to consider when evaluating the problems the student is encountering.
So, if your child is falling behind, it is recommended to get a qualified tutor to help him or her catch up. Tutoring reinforces the learning process, makes-up lost skills and gets the child back to an instructional level so the teacher can continue the learning process with the child. Most tutoring programs work with the child on average three to four months, seeing the child for an hour's session two to three times a week. According to Gordon, "Less than twice a week is not enough assistance”. Although a tutor cannot give a guarantee, the tutor can give parents benchmarks from the child’s current schools assessments. This should include the expectations for success.
There are various aspects of tutoring. The tutor should have access to the child’s IEP requirements. The tutor needs to customize their tutoring style to fit the needs of each deaf and hard of hearing student. The tutor will influentially guide and enhance the knowledge. Parent shouldn't do the child's homework, but they should
be willing to help, if needed.
Deaf and hard of hearing students have a unique way of learning and they learn best when opportunities that allow them to discover and use their own way of learning are applied. As reported on February 11, 2009 By Tatiana Morales (CBS), There are several signs that will indicate to parents that their child needs a tutor, according to Edward Gordon, a tutoring consultant for the federal and state governments and author of "Tutor Quest." Parents spend over $8 billion a year on tutors and the federal government spends approximately $1 billion for tutors due to the "No Child Left Behind" Act reported Morales. Currently, all children have the option to transfer to better schools and to receive (school supplied) tutoring if they attend schools that do not meet government standards and are "failing" for two consecutive years.
Until now, it has been extremely difficult finding available and qualified tutors; let alone those who also posses oral or signing skills.
Current estimates (2009) show that the cost to hire a private tutor for a hearing student in the U.S. ranges from to $40 to $150 an hour, depending on what the tutor is doing. Most school districts rely on their state school for the deaf to find tutors for mainstreamed students.
It can be as straightforward as a one-time test prep forum, a re-stating of the obvious, the application of an expansion technique, or providing an example. It can also be as complex and layered as reinforcing a behavior goal while assessing a students’ communication needs, expanding and building upon prior semesters work, reinforcing new concepts, or introducing an abstract concept. “Tutoring ranks with interpreting and note-taking as one in a triad of fundamental academic support services for deaf and hard of hearing … particularly among those in mainstreamed settings. (Instructors) Identified as providing services to these students during the 1989-93 period, two-thirds of American educational providers cited the use of tutoring as a special service to assist their deaf and hard of hearing students with their ongoing coursework,” according to the National Center for Educational Statistics (1994).
Parents:
Here are some signs indicating that your child may need a tutor: Continued failing grades in school. If your child is constantly making excuses as to why he or she is not doing homework. If they are unhappy in school or having academic and or social problems in general that you are aware of. Does the teacher send notes requesting that you meet at school because there of a disruptive behavior pattern. Patterns can be a bad report card in the first and second semesters, Unexcused absences or personality changes to name a few possible examples. Beginning in February through May is when most parents take action and get a tutor because they don't want their child in summer school or to repeat a grade," Gordon says. There are no lazy children; Laziness is a symptom. There are many things from home life to academic stresses to consider when evaluating the problems the student is encountering.
So, if your child is falling behind, it is recommended to get a qualified tutor to help him or her catch up. Tutoring reinforces the learning process, makes-up lost skills and gets the child back to an instructional level so the teacher can continue the learning process with the child. Most tutoring programs work with the child on average three to four months, seeing the child for an hour's session two to three times a week. According to Gordon, "Less than twice a week is not enough assistance”. Although a tutor cannot give a guarantee, the tutor can give parents benchmarks from the child’s current schools assessments. This should include the expectations for success.
There are various aspects of tutoring. The tutor should have access to the child’s IEP requirements. The tutor needs to customize their tutoring style to fit the needs of each deaf and hard of hearing student. The tutor will influentially guide and enhance the knowledge. Parent shouldn't do the child's homework, but they should
be willing to help, if needed.
Deaf and hard of hearing students have a unique way of learning and they learn best when opportunities that allow them to discover and use their own way of learning are applied. As reported on February 11, 2009 By Tatiana Morales (CBS), There are several signs that will indicate to parents that their child needs a tutor, according to Edward Gordon, a tutoring consultant for the federal and state governments and author of "Tutor Quest." Parents spend over $8 billion a year on tutors and the federal government spends approximately $1 billion for tutors due to the "No Child Left Behind" Act reported Morales. Currently, all children have the option to transfer to better schools and to receive (school supplied) tutoring if they attend schools that do not meet government standards and are "failing" for two consecutive years.
Until now, it has been extremely difficult finding available and qualified tutors; let alone those who also posses oral or signing skills.
Current estimates (2009) show that the cost to hire a private tutor for a hearing student in the U.S. ranges from to $40 to $150 an hour, depending on what the tutor is doing. Most school districts rely on their state school for the deaf to find tutors for mainstreamed students.