America needs to wise up about need for quality tutoring

…Research reveals that tutoring is most effective when it helps students literally "learn how to learn." What does this mean? It may surprise many people that students often fail to master important basic skills because of subtle undiagnosed learning disabilities, dyslexia, underachievement and other learning issues that may limit study skills.

Good tutoring -- particularly diagnostic/developmental tutoring -- closely observes and records student learning strengths and weaknesses on a class-by-class basis. Using this ongoing information, the tutor can better individualize tutoring instruction, using the student's stronger skills to build up personal learning weaknesses...

Other key factors that research tells us will make tutoring more effective include:
1. Better-prepared tutors produce better results than tutors with little or no special preparation. College courses in the skills to be tutored, a degree, special teaching certification and prior teaching/tutoring experience can improve tutoring quality.
2. Tutors need to follow a written curriculum that helps individualize their instruction. They need to record their learning observations in an organized manner and track the gradual development of the student's new skills class by class.
3. Tutors need to coach parents on how to better encourage good study habits and motivate their child's daily learning at home. Parental support of this process will have a very powerful influence on improving a child's classroom achievement.

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