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Tutoring Takes Off
Parents today enroll their children in a variety of sports programs - not so
they will become professional athletes, but for the physical and emotional
benefits of exercise, teamwork and discipline.
Parents have not typically invested equal amounts of time or money in
"training" their children to become successful learners.
That, they think, is what schools are for. While parents who want their
children to be successful soccer players would not depend solely on a school PE
class to achieve that goal, teaching children to become successful learners is
a process that needs to take place outside of as well as within the classroom.
Training successful learners is the role of tutoring.
For years, tutoring was seen as being only for "slow" children, or those who
struggled in a particular academic area. Now, however, that perception is
changing and there's an explosion in the enrollment of children in tutoring
programs. According to Larry Schwartz, Tutoring Club founder and CEO, "Many of
the kids at our centers are already at or above grade level- we are helping
them hone their learning skills in the same way that a child would go to a
basketball or soccer camp to improve his or her playing ability."
Historically, tutoring was characterized by one-on-one teaching. More recently,
companies have created software to achieve the same result through computers.
For Tutoring Club, which was recently ranked as one of the top 10 new
franchises by Entrepreneur Magazine, blending these approaches makes the most
sense.
Explains Schwartz, "We see computers as useful tools for diagnosis and for
compiling lesson plans based on that diagnosis. At that point we turn the
individualized instruction over to a staff comprised of people who are either
credentialed teachers or who hold advanced academic degrees. The focus is not
on the tutor so much as the consistency and relevance of the individualized
lesson plans applied to each child."
Parents who enroll their children at Tutoring Club get an unprecedented
guarantee: to raise each child's academic level by a full grade in less time
and at lower cost than any other program on the market. "Parents are realizing
that tutoring is a means of giving children the confidence they need to become
successful learners," says Schwartz, "That's a skill that will serve them long
after they finish Little League."
For further information, contact:
Chad Schwartz
Tutoring Club
(702) 588-5288
cschwartz@tutoringclub.com
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