...My Tutoring Experience When I was in the eighth grade, I received a letter from the Triangle Center asking me to consider being a tutor for younger students in my school. This letter convinced that I should try it. After all, I was getting good grades myself, so maybe I could help someone else to get better grades. Looking back on that day, I am glad that I made that decision. I was not sure what to expect when I started, but it has been quite an experience. Four years later, I still tutor and really enjoy the program. Over time, tutoring has taught me different things. Tutoring definitely had a learning curve for me as I learned about my student and what were the most effective methods for her. Tutoring was not about me; it was about my student Lupe. One incident that sticks out in my mind from the first year was one day when she was doing her reading homework. Lupe was doing a vocabulary question and was not quite sure what the word meant. When she asked me about it, I launched into a description, using easy words to explain it and hand gestures to show it visually. She looked me with a strange expression on her face at first, but then she suddenly understood. That moment made tutoring worth it because I saw that I was getting through to her. It felt good that I was able to help her. My second year was even better. I was paired with a middle school girl named Kaitlyn. She was fairly enthusiastic about school; she just needed help with certain...
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...Unit 9 Project: A Magical Solution for Urban Schools Reading Intervention Programs LaKisha Overton Kaplan University CM220 Professor Kerr March 31, 2014 A Magical Solution for Urban Schools Reading Intervention Programs Reading can be the gateway to a new world. Unfortunately today there are large numbers of inner city elementary school children who struggle with reading daily. For example, “According to the 2012 Maryland School Assessment, 34.5% of Baltimore City 3rd graders are reading below grade level, a figure that is double the state average” (Baltimore City Library Project, 2014, para.1). It’s the duty of inner city school districts to make changes that will embrace the issues which are effecting the academic growth of children. The letters in words are symbols and those letters make sounds. Putting them all together equals reading, and reading is the key to a child’s future independence. That independence allows them to be positive contributors to society. As well as prepare them to maneuver daily technological advances in our society. A child without a solid reading foundation could be led on a path to becoming a high school dropout. “One in six children who are not reading proficiently in the third grade do not graduate from high school on time” (Baltimore City Library Project, 2014, para.1). Many children have low to poor academic achievement. Multisensory reading intervention can be the solution to help break the cycle of poor reading skills amongst children...
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...My Tutoring Experience Using the Fundamentals Reading Program Shaundra Cartwright EDU: Phonics Based Reading and Decoding Instructor Jennifer Hanson October 22, 2013 In our second week of class we are asked to choose a student to tutor with the Fundamentals Reading Program. We are asked to pick a student from age’s five to seven and only one student. The Fundamentals Reading program is an intensive systematic phonics learn to read program that will improve comprehension, spelling and a child’s penmanship. This program is well-suited for absolutely every age group and it is an effective solution for any reading problem (actionreading.com). Formulated for use with learners from preschool through adult ages, this program is the key to learning to read the English language in a much easier way. Children struggle with comprehension the most and this program helps to build on being able to understand what you are reading. Our students that we will be tutoring should go from knowing little to nothing about reading to being more knowledgeable and finally able to hold their own in the classroom. Since I have been a substitute teacher at my daughter’s school for the past two years, I reached out to my friends there for a student to tutor. I let them know I wanted to tutor a student they had who had trouble with learning to read and write so they could really benefit from being tutored. My student’s name is...
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...Minds Academy, LLC Business Plan Name, CEO Name, CFO Name, COO Name, CMO Address of School Confidentiality Agreement The undersigned reader acknowledges that the information provided by Brilliant Minds Academy, LLC staff in this business plan is confidential; therefore, reader agrees not to disclose it without the express written permission of Brilliant Minds Academy, LLC. It is acknowledged by reader that information to be furnished in this business plan is in all respects confidential in nature, other than information which is in the public domain through other means, and that any disclosure or use of same by reader may cause serious harm or damage to Brilliant Minds Academy, LLC. Upon request, this document is to be immediately returned. ___________________ Signature ___________________ Name (typed or printed) ___________________ Date Table of Contents I. Table of Contents 3 II. Executive Summary 4 III. Company Description 6 IV. Marketing Plan 8 V. Operational Plan…………………………………………………………………………… 22 VI. Financial Plan 32 VII. Exit Strategy 39 VIII. Appendices & References 41 Executive Summary Brilliant Minds Academy, LLC (BMA) will be a private school that offers group tutoring, individual tutoring, and a student supply store. BMA is scheduled to open on August 13th, 2012 at 113 Cumberland Avenue in Madison, Tennessee. The school and tutoring programs are on a year round schedule where the classes will meet for 45 days and break for...
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...parents and first discuss homelessness issue. What does their ideal solution look like? Are they open to what I have to offer? Ask about Case Management Consent and for Consent to ask for team meeting with shelter staff to discuss collaboration of services with Family and Shelter staff to find out what’s next? Planning Ideas /Resource, Support, Services available: If In such team meeting with family and Hew Horizon Staff: confirm with staff at New Horizon Shelter that this family will continue to be within reach of services that you will seek to provide for the issues to be addressed and if not what will their aftercare services look like for upcoming placements to match their needs? Goal :( measurable and attainable by objectives): After care Shelter network resources provided by the Shelter system will/can provide subsidized housing within one month as family completes eligibility process with First Avenues Subsidy Rental Process? If so then: Objectives: (smaller steps to goal) Meet with Shelter staff to find out qualifications Objective: Encourage Family to do Aftercare Orientation to understand resources available to them…Also ask if new family residence will have social work on sight for homework help, food pantry, mental health consultation and possible career counseling? (Parents/Shelter) Objectives: Help Family get those qualifications broken down into smaller steps to complete or discover things that might be holding them back, weekly, until move.(Parents/CM) ...
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...achievement gaps between socioeconomic groups is a language gap.” The purpose of this research is to determine how explicit instruction using interventions can help close the vocabulary deficits with children from disadvantaged backgrounds The Problem Children of lower socioeconomic backgrounds enter kindergarten with a less extensive vocabulary than those of higher socioeconomic environment. One study showed that three year old children from affluent families had larger vocabularies than children from impoverished families (Hart and Risley, et al 1995). Unfortunately, once the deficit in vocabulary is established, differences in vocabulary knowledge are hard to eliminate. This leads to continued gaps as students progresses through school. Another study revealed that children from affluent homes hear 382 words per hour and children from impoverished families hear about 167 words an hour. Throughout their lifetimes, children of poverty will have heard 32 million fewer words than children from more affluent families. Children from lower SES develop vocabulary four times slower than children from...
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...For the purpose of this assignment, I chose to interview the head counselor at Duncan Polytechnical High School, Thomas Yang. Yang has been with Fresno Unified School District as a school counselor for 17 years and a head counselor for 8 years. Prior to his current position at Duncan Poltechnical High School, Yang has worked at Fresno High School, Roosevelt High School, and Hoover High School. Although Yang does not have a caseload as the head counselor at Duncan Poltechnical High School, he shared with me that he is responsible for creating the master schedules for all the freshmen, sophomore, juniors, and senior teachers’ class schedules as well as many other duties head counselors are responsible for. In regards to what specific programs...
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...Peer Tutoring: Its Effect on the Achievement and Attitude in Physics Of high School Senior Students of Naval Institute of Technology ---------------------------------- A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School Leyte Normal University Tacloban City ---------------------------------- In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in Teaching (Science) ---------------------------------- by Minerva E. Sañosa February 1996 ABSTRACT This study attempted to assess the effects of peer tutoring on the achievement in and attitude towards Physics of high school senior students of Naval Institute of Technology, SY 1995-1996. Five high school senior students with the highest grade point average from first year to third year high school in English, Mathematics, and Science were used as peer tutors. The subjects of the study were fifty high school senior students randomly selected and assigned into two groups, the peer tutored or experimental group and non-peer tutored or the control group. The two groups answered the achievement test in electromagnetic energy and a scale to measure attitude towards Physics before and after the conduct of study. The result indicated that students in both groups increased their level of achievement during the study. Morever, with the use of two-tailed test, it was revealed that the level of achievement of students in...
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...vowels and 4 long vowels in Dutch. The training program included three parts: first, the child was shown a letter by the parent with the use of the letter card and told the corresponding sound and word. Then the child colored and traced the letter printed on the worksheet. Next, the child started with the computer exercises. The computer system consists of three types of exercise: the first one related to letters, the second to segmenting and blending, and the third to word decoding. Feedback was provided by either computerized (visual) or by parent who was tutoring the child. In order to promote and monitor the integrity of training, an instruction meeting was held for parents. There was a second meeting after about six weeks of training. One pretest and three posttests were conducted to measure children’s phonemic awareness, letter knowledge and naming speed. The three posttests include one short-term gain test immediately after the intervention (Kindergarten 2) and two follow-up tests in Grade 1 and Grade...
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...comprehension among students in today’s society is of high importance. The ability to be college ready in reading and writing categories is a need that many students struggle with at the college level. This paper will focus on an action plan to alleviate those needs and allow for students to be better prepared for future challenges in reading and writing that await them. This paper will address deficiencies, challenges, and strategies to improve the literacy program at Anywhere ISD in Anywhere, Texas. Reading Program Action Plan A reading program plan should be determined by meeting the needs of the students it plans to serve (Ediger, 2010). In determining an action plan for meeting the students of my school there are several key factors I have to evaluate. School funding issues are prevalent in every state in America and in order for this to be effective funding issues need to be established. For the sake of argument this reading program action plan is built on the assumption that funding is not an issue but student success is of more importance. This action plan will focus on 8th grade students at Anywhere ISD in Anywhere, Texas. Based upon data, two thirds of 8th graders read below grade level (Martello, Martello, Modder man, Peterson, & Pan, 2013). Gunning (2013) suggests ten principles in implementing a successful reading program for all students to be successful. In order for these principles to be effective proper monitoring of all students in the reading program...
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...…………………………………………………………11 Proposed Business Problem Statement The importance of obtaining a college education to work in today’s society cannot be overstated. That is why in recent years high schools have started to encourage students to pursue a college education as well as begin to prepare the students for college. The current methods high schools are implementing offer general ways of preparing students for college that are often times ineffective and lack proper execution. Since college preparation is critical for high school students to increase their chance of successfully graduating from college, it is now more crucial than ever before to provide proper college preparation for tomorrow’s college students. However college preparation requires more than just helpful techniques for studying and teaching yourself. College preparation also requires a good amount of hard work and learning core subjects that form the foundation for which we build our knowledge upon in college. We are aware that the majority of future jobs involve science, mathematics, and technology skills to be successful in, that is why our tutoring subjects will primarily be focused on science and technologies. Overall, our mission is to provide a quality college preparation service paired with effective tutoring for high school students that potentially want to pursue...
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...After reading this article and watching the interview, my mouth hung open in awe. My brain, scrambled now, sorted through the statements made in the video. Cheryl Rios, the CEO of a small company in Texas, proclaimed that Hillary Clinton's hormonal issues as a woman make her unjust to be the president of the United States. The irony of the situation made me wonder if this article would have been more suitable for The Onion instead of CNN. I would like to bring to your attention some of the contradiction of this situation. Ms. Rios states that Mrs. Clinton's female hormones will create issues for her as a leader. The absolute lack of logic in her claim is baffling. Making a statement about Clinton's political history causing her to be a weak...
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...Last Name: Ismael First Name: Cyntia Recommendation Letter Worksheet The information on this form should only pertain to your performance in your classes. Be honest in your answers as this will best help your teacher produce a more thoughtful and effective recommendation. Please answer the following questions: 1. What do you hope to study in university? I hope to study in university because I believe that it will an opportunity to be professionally specialized in a specific area and bring impactful improvements to my community in the future; besides, I believe that studying in a university will bring me many other opportunities and will permit me to develop professional skills in Business administration and Economics. 2. Why do you want to study this...
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...Gallaudet University Attending university is a unique life experience most people dream of going through since they were young. While there are many types of higher education, 4-year universities, technical schools, online schools, there is one school that stands out in terms of quality and service; Gallaudet University. Established in 1864 and named after one of the founders of the school, Gallaudet University is the leading private university specifically designed for deaf and hard of hearing people and is located in Washington D.C. Gallaudet has much to offer such as programs in liberal education and career development, athletics, and an enjoyable campus life. Gallaudet University will build upon its rich history as the world's premier higher education institution serving deaf and hard of hearing people to become the university of first choice for the most qualified, diverse group of deaf and hard of hearing students in the world, as well as hearing students pursuing careers related to deaf and hard of hearing people. Gallaudet will empower its graduates with the knowledge and practical skills vital to achieving personal and professional success in the changing local and global communities in which they live and work. Gallaudet will also strive to become the leading international resource for research, innovation and outreach related to deaf and hard of hearing people. (Vision Statement of Gallaudet University; Gallaudet.edu) Gallaudet is achieving their vision statement...
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...C To: Financial Aid Committee Aloha, this letter is regarding the suspension of my financial aid. I am shocked to hear that my financial aid has been put on suspension. The reason it has been put on suspension, was because of the grade I received for my Intro to Communications class I took in spring 2013. After reading this letter of explanation I hope you will reconsider my suspension. I had the opportunity of taking this college class through a high school program I was in called Academy of Hospitality and Tourism. Only a selected few are able to take part in this program. They have to maintain a high GPA, and have a good attendance record. I met all those requirements and was able to take part in this program. Our senior year, this program allowed us to take skip our last period of the day and attend a college class. We were able to gain the college experience and get ahead. So I was taking a college class while still attending high school. I was doing very well in all my classes, I attended my classes everyday met all deadlines. I did really well in class. But towards the middle of the semester my parents had got a disturbing phone call from Sri Lanka. They were told that my grandmother was in the hospital, and that she was very ill. Family in Sri Lanka told us that we should “visit before it’s too late” My grandmother had a stroke several years ago, and lost her speaking ability. So it’s been hard for my parents not being able to see her every day. Listening to...
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