Once you have made the decision to tutor your own child, One-to-One Home Tutoring will assist and support you at every step of the process.

The Home Tutoring Parent Support Program provides you with the following materials and services:

        Tests and Assessment:  Parents will be able to assess the child's academic strengths and weaknesses and confirm progress by administering simple skill surveys.

        Instructional Manuals for each subject:  Methods and procedures for teaching each skill are explained using familiar, easily understood terms and uncomplicated directions.  

        Instructional materials:  Parents will be able to use a variety of stories, worksheets, games and puzzles to reinforce skills at a level of instruction appropriate to their particular child.  These materials will be neither "too hard" nor "too easy."  If they are, parents simply have to go up or down a level and try again. 

       Guidance and support:  Parents are encouraged to ask questions or express any concerns they may have in regard to the program via telephone or internet..
 

For those parents who are still undecided about tutoring their own child because they feel "unqualified," I would like to bolster their confidence by reminding them that public education by specialized professionals is a relatively recent development and that, throughout history, most parents taught their own children to read and write at home using few materials. 

Of course, there were fewer skills to master and standards were lower, but, in many ways, the learning environment was far superior to the typical classroom of today.  The teacher/student ratio was ideal, there were few distractions, authority was respected, motivation was high, and, perhaps most importantly, it was assumed that every child could and would learn to read and write.  Little Johnny might take a little longer to learn to read than sister Sally, but that was okay because he'd "get it" sooner or later. 

Perhaps it's not fair comparing two historical periods that are so vastly different, buy I still believe that the parents of the past did a pretty good job educating their offspring. 

Why? It is because NO ONE knows a child, loves a child, and recognizes a child's potential better than that child's parents. 

It is tragic that today's parents have not only lost confidence in their own judgment, but even hesitate to become actively engaged in their child's education when it is obvious that the methods the school is using are failing miserably.  

Why not give The One-to-One Home Tutoring Support Program a try?  What do you have to lose?  More importantly,  what might you gain?