Academic Tutoring


	ACADEMIC TUTORING for ALL AGES At Kaulele Education Services, learning specialist Mark A. Carey offers individual academic tutoring tailored to the needs of each student. Tutoring can directly support the student in the school curriculum, providing supplemental teaching to review or preview school work and helping him or her more successfully or thoroughly complete assigned work. Tutoring can provide a separate program of remedial work for students needing to build skills to which they have been exposed but have not mastered. Tutoring can provide a separate enrichment program, providing new opportunities to gain or extend skills and information in areas not being addressed in their regular school placement. A combination of these approaches is often appropriate. Most students attend regularly scheduled, one-hour individual tutoring sessions in the Kilauea office. Weekly or twice weekly sessions are most common during the school year, while summer tutoring offers a wide range of scheduling options. Written, daily reports are provided summarizing each session. A tutoring relationship is an effective means to better understand a student's learning strengths and weaknesses. It is an excellent way to develop confidence, organization, motivation, and study skills in successful students as well as in struggling students. A tutoring relationship can be the scaffolding which allows a student to climb to greater heights of direct responsibility for his or her own education in the long run. [Fees and scheduling]

What Good is a Tutor?

Creating graphic organizers helps students
organize their thoughts before writing.

Tutoring and the family system: A tutor can be a welcome resource even if teachers and family are available for assistance, and especially when they are not. The tutor can be an important adjunct to the family system, allowing parents with limited time or emotional energy to focus their interactions with the child on other areas which only they can best provide. Parents often report important gains beyond the academic goals.

A tutor can be a mentor who guides even the most capable students to:

broaden, deepen, or focus ideas about the content of their work
enhance the expression of those ideas in oral and written form
utilize resources (books, computers, teachers, family, peers, etc.) most effectively
tackle difficult, discouraging, or uninteresting tasks with greater enthusiasm
evaluate and develop their own participation in the learning process, including understanding educational strengths and weaknesses and managing time effectively
respond to concerns about social interactions and personal matters which may be interfering with the ability to put their best foot forward in their schoolwork
face the many often small but important decisions in their lives which can either clarify values and build character or, alternately, muddle priorities and erode integrity

Not all tutors are alike. Depending on where you find them, tutors may be teachers-in-training who seek more instructional experience, classroom teachers who seek to supplement their regular income, retired teachers who want to maintain some involvement in their work, full-time tutors with specialties in a variety of areas, etc. Each type has its own merits.

Throughout history, private tutors have been highly valued as the basis of or as a supplement to such an education. Tutoring has been a critical part of the formula for success for many students in our local schools, whether or not that student has an identified learning problem.

Mark A. Carey brings over thirty years of teaching experience, advanced training, and expert credentials to his work with students, families, and schools.

Keeping track of calendars, schedules, and to-do lists
is an important part of helping a student stay organized.