Greetings!
New Semester
February brings a new semester for many high school students. We
hope your first semester went well. Please give us a call or email
us if you need to secure a new tutor for the upcoming semester. I've recruited some excellent teachers to tutor in the greater Victoria area. Likewise, if you know of anybody who would benefit from tutoring, please pass along our contact information. Visit
our contact us page on our website www.schooliseasy.com to get in touch with me or call 1-250-483-5496 or email me at victoria@schooliseasy.com
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 Referrals
Referrals
- We appreciate your many referrals. Thank you for telling your friends.
More than 60% of our business comes from Word of Mouth. If you want
to introduce a friend to your Academic Advantage tutor please make sure
to contact Academic Advantage directly. Our tutors are on contract and
have agreed to work through Academic Advantage when referred by an Academic
Advantage client to a new client.
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First Session
If you are getting a new tutor, you have the option of doing a half
hour assessment or "get to know you" session. This session will
cost half of the one hour rate. This allows the tutor to establish the
student's needs. The parent can also get a sense of the tutor's
personality and method to determine if it is a good match. If you choose
this option please let Academic Advantage know so that we can inform
the tutor.
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 Supporting Your Child's Learning:
"The motivation
for learning should be the child's intrinsic interest, not an external
reward. And with school work, this can sometimes be a real challenge,
because not everything a child is asked to do will be interesting to
every child.
To help your child become
self-motivated and self-analytic, give specific feedback instead of
vague praise and rewards. Instead of saying, 'great job on the homework,'
describe what you thought was great about it. Instead of saying, 'you
didn't write enough of an answer,' ask your child to supply more details
about the plot. In this way, children will be able to take ownership
of their learning and of what they produced."
Dalton Miller-Jones,
Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology,
Portland State University
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 The Homework Battle:
Caught in a battle over
homework? Or working around the clock with your child completing a school
project? Wondering what to do when your child forgets to hand in an assignment
- a few days in a row? Baffled by experts who tell us we should help our
children enjoy school and become independent learners? "Great," you
might think, "but how?"
"Our children become
independent learners very gradually," advises guidance counselor Linda
Lendman, M.S.W. They learn at their own pace and you can support their process
at home by nurturing what they are interested in and giving gentle guidance
when they need assistance."
"What happens at home has
a lot to do with supporting your child's success as a learner - and this
goes way beyond making sure she gets her homework done or studies for the test.
You want to help kids learn how to feel competent and positive about their
learning. One way to begin is to help kids organize themselves (at their
developmental level); create a schedule for doing their work and discover how
they can follow it, so school work becomes a rich part of their after-school
lives, but not the only part," advises Diane Levin, Ph.D., professor of
education at Wheelock College.
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 Survey:
Your
input and feedback is always valued. One of the best
ways for you to share that with us is via our ongoing
survey. You can find it here and let us know
how we're serving you and your kids. Alternatively you
can call us at 604-439-1790 or
1-877-787-5854
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We hope that you're doing well, and we strive to give you the best service there is.
Sincerely,
Magnus Hanton
Academic Advantage |
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