“Parent-teacher conferences are often when parents become aware of their children’s educational deficiencies.  Unfortunately, many parents expect the problems to just go away,” notes Chad Schwartz President of Tutoring Club. “The sooner parents decide to take action to keep their children on track; the easier it will be for them and their children.”

Promote Effective Communication

Parents should talk with their children about their experiences in the classroom.  Find out what children feel are their best subjects and which subjects they like the least. See if there is anything your children would like you to talk about with their teachers. Moreover, assure your children they needn’t worry about the meeting; that they understand you and the teachers are meeting to help them.

Take Your Children’s Work to the Meeting

Taking samples of tests, homework, and progress reports can help parents focus the meeting on their children’s specific academic needs. It is important to know what to address when developing an action plan. Keeping a folder with these items may be helpful and could save time when parent-teacher conferences arrive.

Finding Improvement Areas

During the parent-teacher conference, make sure to discuss your children’s strengths and weaknesses.  It may be beneficial to understand how your children’s teachers grade assignments so you can help guide their classroom performance. Identify skill gaps with the teacher when developing the action plan suited for your children’s academic success.

Begin the Action Plan with Your Children

After the parent-teacher conference, review notes and discuss problem areas with your children. If specific problem areas have been noted, or if their overall grades seem marginal, talk to them about possible causes and solutions.  If the conclusion is your children need extra help or motivation, consider individualized tutoring.

Tutoring Club helps children reach their full academic level more quickly. Tutoring Club offers individualized instruction by professional tutors who work with your children, creating lesson plans to address their specific academic needs. According to Schwartz “When parents invest in tutoring, they show children they believe learning is a priority, and they are committed to their children’s success.”

Meeting with your children’s teachers can and should build strong parent-teacher partnerships. By participating in conferences and establishing a good relationship with teachers, you can help your children complete a great academic school year.

Tutoring Club’s exclusive TutorAid programs are guaranteed to improve individual skills in core academic areas like reading, writing, and math. Individualized instruction in science and foreign languages, as well as in basic learning skills such as note taking, outlining, time management and ACT/SAT preparation is also available. For more information on Tutoring Club, visit www.tutoringclub.com or contact Howard Stracke, Tutoring Club of Glen Allen, 804-405-4968.

Also, learn more about the how important Math is to education for kids!

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If your son or daughter has recently taken the SAT Exam or other standardized tests, you know how stressful and challenging those times can be. If your child is just now preparing for an upcoming SAT Exam or other tests, there are ways to help him or her be better prepared and more confident.

Tutoring Club of Richmond offers unique ACT Smart and SAT Smart programs for the ACT and the SAT can improve scores dramatically. A diagnostic test allows them to individualize your student’s program to maximize his or her time with professional tutors. Their special software system allows them to match up specific items on practice tests with those items missed on the diagnostic.

What does all of this mean?

1. It means that students know exactly what areas they need to study most to get the best scores.
2. They don’t waste time on a general study of everything – but they focus only on what they need to study for optimal performance.
3. Students spend less time and you spend less money to get the tutoring your child needs.
4. Students gain the confidence they need to successfully complete the exam and succeed.

Tutoring Club experts help your child choose the right test to take and the right time to take it too.  These tests are important to your child’s future and they may dictate whether or not your student is able to attend the college of his/her choice. Tutoring Club increases the chances of students scoring higher on tests for a better future.

Upcoming SAT Test Dates are just around the corner for many students. Let the Tutoring Club professionals prepare your student and give him or her the confidence, information, tips, and solutions he/she needs to perform at an optimal level.

For more information on individualized instruction that helps reduce stress and build confidence, visit the website to learn more.

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Mathematic skills are built one level at a time; a lack of mastery in one area makes reaching the next level difficult, if not impossible.

Unlike reading and writing, math skills build on one another – and failing to master a particular skill area creates a shaky foundation for all the skills that follow, which can ultimately lead to a loss of confidence and a loss of interest for the subject.

“By sixth grade, students need to have mastered their basic math skills,” says Chad Schwartz, President of the Tutoring Clubs.  “At this point, they will be ready to move into new mathematical territory with middle school math and pre-Algebra.  When students haven’t mastered the basics, however, their future success in math becomes highly problematic.”

What makes mathematics all the more challenging for students is that since each skill level builds on the previous one, a lack of mastery in one area makes reaching the next level difficult, if not impossible.  “Math skills need to be presented logically, but the key steps in mastery are to see it, understand it, and practice it,” Schwartz observes.

Students who begin Tutoring Club’s math skills program begin by taking a basic diagnostic test, which is then analyzed by computer to identify problem areas that need to be strengthened – known as “skills gaps.”  From this diagnostic software, an individualized lesson plan is created and then administered by professional teachers/ tutors to fill in those math skills gaps.  “We don’t leave a lesson until a student has mastered the material being practiced,” says Schwartz.  “Building and retaining math skills can seem like climbing Mt. Everest to some students, but our goal is to make it more like overcoming one mole hill at a time – and we literally leave no child behind.”

“With the Tutoring Club format,” states Schwartz, “We take each basic skill and then break it down into component skills.  We then create a series of repetitive drills that both teach and reinforce those skills, and we measure their mastery before moving on to the next skill level.”Tutoring Club not only provides the setting and expertise to develop and retain math skills, it also makes an unprecedented guarantee in the process:

Students will improve by one grade level for every 32 hours of tutoring, or the tutoring sessions will continue at no additional cost until the goal has been reached.

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