General Programs
Remedial Tutoring
Remedial Tutoring focuses on a specific need: most often reading, math, writing, and/or study skills. This is for the student who has fallen significantly behind, or needs instruction one on one. Generally, this requires rebuilding the basics that have been missed rather than primarily focusing only on current schoolwork. Homework help pairs with remedial work as needed. This focuses on getting homework done correctly, uses questions as teachable moments, and reviews common needs such as fractions, multiplication tables, or spelling rules.
Remedial therapy
Remedial therapy retrains a student to learn a different way. Retraining or training a child’s ear to hear sounds and a child’s hand to write the letters efficiently are just two examples.
Middle and High School for-credit distance learning courses
These courses are for Middle and High School students who have failed a course and wish to make it up. Students take Brigham Young’s accredited coursework. They work one on one with a tutor who ensures that the student learns the material.
Enrichment Mini-courses
After school and summer academic enrichment. Students take hands-on science, math, literature, creative problem solving, and other courses that stretch the mind and go beyond what one gets in the regular classroom. These are small group classes with two teachers.
SAT/ACT/Preparation Classes
Individualized test preparation classes focus on the verbal, math, and writing sections of both tests. Starting with a pre-test, students learn both strategies for success and content to raise their scores.
GED Preparation Classes
Individualized test prep classes focusing on working through the GED Prep book from Petersons. The main focus is on reading for information, as that is the primary focus of the GED exam. The other focus is on the math portion for which we review the basic math skills needed to pass the exam. The one on one nature of the tutoring makes it easy to pass the exam.
Specific Home Schooling Services:
Home Schooling Support Services
Small group mini-courses in math, science, or other areas as requested.
End of year standardized testing for home schooled students
This testing is accepted by the local School District as the year end proof that your child has made good progress during the school year
Individualized Tutoring
We offer tutoring in subjects that may be difficult for a given parent to teach to their child. Examples are: accredited high school courses, early reading for children who are having difficulty learning to read, or any other topic that a parent or child might want to learn. Our programs are totally personalized to the needs of each child.
West Virginia Goals and Objectives training for Parents
We can show parents where to find the Goals and Objectives (wved.state.wv.edu then teach 21), to decide what level of mastery is appropriate.
Summer School Programs
Individualized Tutoring
The Tutoring Center Foundation is open in the summer for an 8 week session to allow children to catch up on missed skills, solidify weak skills, and get ready to enter the new school year with solid mastery and confidence.
Summer is the perfect time for a student to fill in those concepts that were missed during the year. Memorizing the multiplication tables, solidifying long division, and learning to add fractions with unlike denominators are three good examples from math. Reading more fluently, learning sight words, and building stronger reading skills are other outcomes. Summer is the time to learn more. With almost three months in summer, students can lose up to 30% of what they learned the year before. Use this opportunity to move ahead and become a stronger learner.
Summer Enrichment Opportunities
Summer is the perfect time to learn something fun. Try some art appreciation, learn about somewhere in the world you might like to travel, learn some Spanish. With a staff of 15, there are endless opportunities to learn about something fun.
Supported, on-line, Distance Learning to help make up for a failing grade
Students can make up a semester grade, or even a full year’s grades by taking accredited high school courses from Brigham Young University. The Tutoring Center will help you every step of the way, and you will get your scores from these nationally accredited courses on your transcript to replace a failing grade.