Your friend may need to adjust her teaching style. She may be teaching something he isn’t ready for. If he needs a tutor he may be at a very basic level, and he may need very short lessons with frequent breaks or changes in activity. Average first graders would probably need a change after about 20 minutes max. He probably needs a change much sooner. He sounds like he would do better with activity, learning games, maybe some computer games. Try reading short, colorful books with lots of pictures, maybe sitting on the floor. He doesn’t sound like a sit-in-the-chair, do-the-worksheet, listen-to-the-directions kind of kid.

Check out some websites:

www.hubbardscupboard.org

www.starfall.com

www.carlscorner.us

There are many other good ones.

Good luck! When the little ones “get it” it’s wonderful!

Take extra manage of what’s taking place within the periods. Tell them what you wish to have support on and ask well questions. Stay on subject. If the tutors nonetheless may not support you with what you wish to have, then inform your moms and dads what you advised us and feature them sit down in on a consultation or 2. I wager you have got plenty of matters you might be doing except losing a while with vain tutors. If one among your tutors is respectable, might that man or woman teach you in some other topics? Why do you have got 3 tutors? Do you suppose you continue to want that a lot tutoring? As a trainer, I have obvious a few of my scholars make satisfactory growth with a teach. On the opposite hand, a few youngsters simply look to be spinning their wheels. Maybe you wish to have an extra teach. Who is doing all of your tutoring? Many men and women imply good and would possibly actually have a measure, however they won’t have the enjoy to be a well teach. Maybe you might attend a studying core for the equal rate because the the 3 tutors mixed. A studying core will do an comparison up entrance and make very specified studying goals. When you met the ones objectives , you both set more difficult objectives or quit going to the core. Do you and the tutors have any specified objectives or do you simply go with the flow alongside from week to week? Remember, you’re your possess nice trainer.

A tutor is not a teacher. A tutor is usually hired to work one on one with a child having a problem. If the child is not working with the tutor and the tutor is under the direction of a teacher , talk to the teacher first. If the tutor is hired by the parent then speak to the parent. There is no to reason to give the child a test to demonstrate poor listening skills. Invite the parent to observe the session or show the parent the lesson plan for the lesson you planned to teach. Keep a log of what the child was asked to do and what he actually did. For example. at 9:45 Jon was asked to write the alphabet. Instead he crawled on the floor from 9:45- 10:05. At 10:05 he was asked to read the book Green Eggs and Ham instead he put his head down until 10:10. Remember you can NOT MAKE HIM LEARN. No one can. Keep on trying but be firm yet fair.

Perhaps the tutor could try to make the learning tasks into games- Concentration, “I have =who has” etc. Also, research indicates that male students respond better to more active types of learning. Toss a ball while introducing new concepts etc.

Your friend needs to teach using lots of attention-grabbing materials. Use teaching aids with lots of visuals/graphics/pictures/photos etc… Fortunately, these things are available for free downloading on many teaching/tutoring sites. For example: http://www.tuitionplaza.com/tutoring/

Bribery. “You get _____(one candy, sticker, minute on the computer, whatever he likes, ) when this ____(page of letters, numbers, reading, whatever) is done.