Tips for Parents

How to Make Tutoring Services Work For Your Child:

Learning Together Educational Services and its referral tutors exist to help your child improve academically. Therefore, his/her active participation in the learning process is expected. Tutors ask that your child:

Come prepared to each session. Your child needs to bring all necessary materials, such as textbooks, notes, recent quizzes and test, pens, pencils and writing paper or notebook.

Read his/her homework assignment ahead of time and, if applicable, work through as many homework problems as possible before the tutoring session.

Have a plan about how he/she wants to use the session. What needs to be done? Homework? Review for an upcoming quiz or test? Draft an essay? Memorize biology terms? Making a decision before the tutor arrives will allow the student to get the maximum benefit from his/her session

Have a positive attitude. Many students who receive tutoring initially think that because they are being tutored they are less capable than other students. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE! No one. no matter how "smart" he/she may appear, knows everything. The tutor will help the student to understand and be successful both in and outside of the tutoring session, it's up to the student, however, to keep an "I can do it" attitude, even when he/she doesn't feel that way. We believe in our studentsand ask them to believe in themselves.

Be prepared to work hard during the session. The student should stay focused, ask questions, and keep the notes from the session, so that the tutor can fit in as much instruction and/or practice as possible.

Additional Notes:

Locate a place where both the tutor and the child can work comfortably. It should be warm, well lit, and free from distractions.

While we enjoy getting to know the whole family, we ask that siblings be occupied elsewhere during the tutoring session.

The tutor will have about 5-7 minutes at the end of the session to talk with you about what was accomplished and other mutual concerns. Because he or she may have another tutoring session after yours and may need to leave promptly, we ask that you schedule any major discussions for another time or plan to contact each other by phone during the week.

Please arrange with the school for the tutor to speak with the child's teacher. Please also let the tutor know if you would like him/her to provide you or the school with written progress reports so the tutor can build this task into his/her schedule.

The tutor may be ordering the teacher's edition of one or some of your child's texts to use during sessions. The tutor can also, by request, purchase supplementary workbooks from the textbook manufacturer for use by the child at home on his/her own or during sessions. The workbooks must be paid for by the parents.

Yes, the tutor would love something to drink!