Innovative Tutoring
by Deborah Bown
Individualized Tutoring
with an Innovative Approach
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PROGRAMS & SERVICES
Brain Highways makes it easy for adults and kids to learn about their brains and how to ensure they're working in the most efficient way. It teaches people how it’s possible to create a positive, calm, energized brain. Their website contains 14 entertaining videos (for kids and adults) that show how incomplete lower brain development affects behavior and performance. There are 100 short audio clips, with accompanying transcripts, to give people a chance to learn information through either auditory or visual sensory pathways. There are also correlation pages that explain how behaviors commonly associated with diagnoses such as autism, ADHD, PTSD, OCD, sensory processing disorder, dyslexia, and more may also be explained by incomplete lower brain development. There are online lower brain assessments to make it easy to discover whether your own brain is working as intended. There are also blog posts that cover topics such as depression, attention, reading problems, and others.
Pathfinders teaches reading, writing, math, spelling, attention, organization, and memory skills by going after and developing the brain processes that are necessary for these foundational skills and successful, independent learning. Pathfinders uses cutting-edge, researched, brain-based tools and methods to provide cognitive training and solve underlying learning problems so that children, as well as adults, who find learning slow, painful, and difficult can increase confidence, learn with ease, and work independently.
Stowell Learning Center is a tutorial center for students with learning disabilities. It is their goal for each student, regardless of age, to become as comfortable and independent a learner as possible. In order to do this, they work closely with parents, communicate with schools, and are continually seeking to find and implement the most effective and efficient strategies and programs. They work one-to-one with students in a positive, caring environment to provide instruction that is targeted to their specific needs and learning style.
Social Thinking is a great website with materials and curriculum developed by Michelle Garcia Winner that targets improving individual social thinking abilities, regardless of diagnostic label. Professionals and parents alike are using these methods to build social thinking and related skills in students and adults. Social Thinking books, workshops and trainings, created by Winner or based on Winner's work, now offer a range of strategies that address individual strengths and weaknesses in processing social information.
SCHOOLS
Pathway School offers an innovative approach to education, featuring individualized instruction taught through a Christian perspective. The School equips students to overcome obstacles blocking their way to academic success using research-based, multi-sensory teaching methods.
TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES
Quizlet can be used on the web or as a mobile app. Use Quizlet to help you study for any test. Make flashcards, test your readiness, and play fun engaging games that make you forget you are actually studying. You can create your own flashcards or search flashcards already made by other users.
The 30/30 Task Manager app offers potential to help all of us who struggle with focusing and getting a task done - especially the ones we keep putting off! By alternating tasks with breaks, this app can be a great homework tool for kids. It’s free, has a nice look, and can be synced with multiple devices. Give it a try!
This is a dyslexic-friendly font designed to make reading clearer and more enjoyable for people with dyslexia. Dyslexie uses heavy base lines, alternating stick and tail lengths, larger openings, and semicursive slants to ensure that each character has a unique and more easily recognizable form.
DragonBox by WeWantToKnow AS> has three great apps to help students learn Algebra or Geometry. DragonBox Algebra 5+ is designed for ages 6 to 8, DragonBox Algbra 12+ is for ages 9 to 11 and DragonBox Elements which teaches the fundamentals of geometry is for ages 9 to 11.
The PhotoMath app reads and solves mathematical expressions by using the camera of your mobile device in real time. It makes math easy and simple by educating users how to solve math problems. Learn how to solve captured expressions and equations through 'human like' solving steps.
Voice Dream is a text to speech app. It can read aloud a PDF, Word doc, webpage or any file you have on Dropbox or Google Drive. The app costs $9.99 and is of great benefit to children and adults who are auditory learners and benefit from hearing things read aloud vs. just reading alone.