Monday, June 27, 2011

Academic Coaching

Academic coaching services play a vital role when it comes to shaping a student's career. They help students analyze their short comings and motivate them to get better. Academic coaching is all about ensuring that students fair well in the examination and show improved results. It is also the responsibility of an academic coach to ensure that students develop interest and passion in a subject and begin to enjoy studies a lot more than before.


Academic Coaching | What to Look for in a Learning Center
(taken from "Ending the Homework Hassle" by John Rosemand)
  • Look for a Learning Center that:
  • Comes highly recommended by other parents and professional
  • Has been in business more than two years
  • Employs teachers who are state-certified and have classroom experience
  • Uses a variety of learning materials, thus enabling adaptation to a broad range of learning styles
  • Uses computer-assisted instruction as a supplement to teacher-based instruction, rather that as a primary instructional technique
  • Retests your child periodically to check his/her progress
  • Guarantees they will contact and continue to communicate with you child's regular classroom teacher
  • Promises to keep you regularly posted concerning your child's progress in their program


What services will Academic Coaching provide?
  • Professional staff and teachers who understand the learning process
  • Diagnostic assessment of your child
  • On going conferences with the parents and teachers
  • Progress testing
  • Personalized program to help your child
  • Prevents students from falling through the cracks