Do you need a Mastery Tutor?

Is your child having problems with school? This does not mean that your child cannot learn. It means that your child needs help from the right tutor. Call Mastery Tutors to discuss the problem. We are experts in learning. Problems with school can grow over time. Or those problems can be turned around with the right assistance. Mastery Tutors can help make that happen.

It is time to consider hiring a Mastery Tutor if your child:

• Is struggling with one or more subjects--math, writing, reading, spelling.
• Has been identified as having a learning problem.
• May be at risk of being held back.
• Has lost confidence in his/her ability to succeed in school.
• Has begun to dread school or find it stressful.
• Needs to improve study skills in order to be more successful.

Mastery Tutors will perform a free in-home Learning Needs Assessment that will be used to develop a personalized learning plan for your child. Then Mastery Tutors will hand select the tutor best able to help your child find and master those little missing pieces in the learning process. In-home tutoring sessions then will be custom developed to give your child the gift of understanding by building on how they learn best. When your child learns through the engagement of their own mind, their success will improve dramatically. We have seen this happen hundreds of times.

“Mastery Tutors are the very best. From the very first day Ms.Simendinger was organized efficient and professional. She took a personal interest in Christian not only has a student but as a person. Christian immediately began to show progress and passed his EOG test. We highly recommend Mastery Tutors.”
Bob & Kim in Denver, NC

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Learning... One Mind at a Time

When a child fails to learn in school, does this mean he or she cannot learn? If, in fact, he or she can learn, but has not learned yet, what needs to be different to make this happen? And if he or she does not learn, but just moves on, what does this cost his or her future? What difference can a tutor make to change the outcome, early on, before it becomes a limit for life? Consider the surprising story of Minnie.

Minnie Blackwell did not succeed in math when she was going through school. She spent the first 40 years of her life believing that her limitations in math would forever limit what she would be able to do with her life.

When Minnie turned 40, she decided to try one more time to fulfill her lifelong dream to be a teacher. Now, back in school all these years later, math was her roadblock again. She tried two times to pass the math section of the standardized test that was required for her to qualify to do her practice teaching. If she failed this test one more time, she would not be allowed to retest, and would be blocked from teaching for life.

As a last effort, Minnie looked for and enlisted a math tutor. One-on-one tutoring brought the focus to her learning style and what she needed to master math HER way. Her tutor was able to discover her individual misconceptions, engage her very visual mind, and turn her problems around. If she had had a tutor earlier, when her problems began, she could have saved herself 30 years.

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Learning Your Way: Learning Styles RULE

Learning is an active process that takes place in the mind of the child. How information gets into the child’s mind, and what happens to it once it gets there, is a function of the child’s learning style. There are no “right” learning styles. What is right for one, can be wrong for another. But the only way that works for a particular child is to learn THEIR way.

A one-on-one tutor can work with a child's individual learning style, adapting to it to ensure that the child does learn, and learns completely. Building on learning success, a tutor can build the child's confidence in his/her own abilities. Equally important, a tutor can help the child understand his or her own learning style in order to carry forward his learning success into the future by knowing HOW to learn.

Two key and distinctive elements of learning style are the style for taking in information and the style for processing it once it has been taken in. To input new information using their senses, some children learn by hearing. These are the auditory learners. Some learn by seeing. These are the visual learners. Others learn through action. These are the kinesthetic learners.

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Using Learning Assessment to Guide Tutoring

Assessments (also called "tests"----shhhhh!) are feared and dreaded. But there is a very good “why” for the use of assessment. That reason is to discover what has or has not happened yet in terms of learning---to find the edge. An experienced tutor can put assessment results to work to guide the future learning plans for each student.

For an assessment to be useful to guide a tutoring plan, it needs to be flexible. It also needs to be low threat, low stress. It needs to take into account the complexities of individual needs and learning styles. And it needs to point to “what happens next”.

Mastery Tutors Learning Assessments are created child-by-child, and adjusted to fit the child and the situation through a one-on-one in-home interview. The value to be gained from an in-home assessment is:

• To find the learning edge.
• To find the missing blocks of learning.
• To find any misconceptions that are impeding the learning process.
• To find how the child’s mind works.
• To find the child's passion and learning wants.
• To find where there are disconnects that need to be closed.
• To determine the learning style of the child.

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