The Tutoring Club in Scotts Valley Helps Make Distance Learning Work

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The Tutoring Club in Scotts Valley Helps Make Distance Learning Work

Parents and children have been struggling mightily to balance the demands of work, family and school. Sadly, some have already given up as evinced by the 10% loss of students who are disconnecting from their schools by just not showing up online.

Many students who are staying connected through distance learning have expressed dissatisfaction with the suitability of their education.

Astonishingly, our students are asking us for more teaching! As responsible adults, we know that our school and personal resources are already stretched to the maximum. So how can we provide more teaching when the resources that we have at our fingertips are already being used to the point of saturation?

Also, as soon as workable new teaching resources are developed, they are also gobbled up or offered as alternatives to schools, often while being difficult to use. Many of these resources are too generic in their approach to work effectively with student’s specific needs.

The kind of teaching that students most prefer is more in-person classroom time with their local teachers. Some parents are considering hiring teachers to come into their homes, or in pods to teach their students, a costly and perhaps unworkable solution given both office of education and health department directives.

Merging the desire for a more personal touch with classroom teachers might seem impossible, but there are solutions available in our local community that can be tapped into. While in-person teaching is presently restricted within Santa Cruz County, there are still alternatives. Here is a partial list: 1) District or County distance learning resources — contact your local school district and county education offices. 2) Small group or one-on-one Zoom,

Facetime, Google, or Skype video with The Tutoring Club of Scotts

Valley. Over-the-telephone connection can work well enough too, for some courses and some students. 3) Pre-packaged online courses XL,

Accelerate Education, University online courses offered thorough your local school district, community college, Colleges, Universities and the

Santa Cruz County Office of Education (SCCOE).

More than 25% of each SVHS graduating class is coming to, or has been to, the Tutoring Club, received higher grades and benefitted from the college test prep services for the PSAT/ NMSQT /SAT /SAT II /ACT /CAHSEE / CAASPP / CHSPE / ASVAB/ GRE / CBEST / CSET/ CSU and Cabrillo entrance assessments/ Fire fighter’s exam/ Union-Skills exams — all carefully tailored to each student and guidance on college application essay and scholarship applications.

Assessment tools are used to focus on each student’s needs, then establishing an individualized, student-tailored learning plans. Students learn study skills development and refinement in an enlightening 24-lesson course that includes organization, speed reading and other skills.

Here is a sampling of the subjects covered at the Tutoring Club: Writing/ English/AP/IB/TOK, Mathematics Life and Physical Sciences, Engineering statics/ mechanics, Physics, Biochemistry, History, Government and Economics: IB/AP US/ and World History, HOTA, Gov. and Economics and Languages.

Test proctoring for online universities (for supplementary courses, independent study, remediation or home schooling).

The Tutoring Club offers a proven, awarded, comprehensive, yet very budget friendly program for all ages, with free assessment testing and without requiring an attendance contract.

It is locally owned and operated by Pat Perkins and Randy Klein.

Pat Perkins is an experienced technical writer and retired executive assistant in several Silicon Valley high-technology companies.

Randy Klein is a retired electrical engineer. He substitute teaches for the SCCOE and SVUSD and is the Interact Youth Chairperson for the Rotary Club of Scotts Valley.

The Tutoring Club is a member of the Scotts Valley Chamber of Commerce and a supporter of the Scotts Valley Educational Foundation and several other community service organizations and events.

Pat and Randy know that teachers are among the “real heroes” in our community! •••

The Tutoring Club of Scotts Valley is located at 221-D Mt. Hermon Road in the Graham Plaza shopping center. Tel: 831-4398886 or Email: prtutoring@sbcglobal.net and visit their website at www.TutoringClub.com

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