As we approach winter break, now is the perfect time to think about how you want to use your child’s winter break. You have several options. Your can just allow them to lay around the house during their break, you can plan outings and adventures, or you can use the two weeks of vacation to address some of the learning issues that they have this year.
Generally I wouldn’t recommend dedicating too much of your child’s winter break to tutoring sessions. However, you can work with a tutor before winter break to develop a series of self-guided activities that your child can work on to address the learning issues that have. For example, if your child is having a hard time with reading comprehension, then you can have their tutor set up question sheets based on a fun book that your child enjoys such as Harry Potter.
If your child is concerned about taking the LSAT, SAT or ACT in the early part of 2008, then you may want to use their winter break to work with a tutor on vocabulary, writing composition and math concepts to help them perform better. If your tutor is not available for live study sessions, then consider using an online tutoring service or an online test practice program.
Winter break is a great time to address learning issues. However, you don’t always need to work directly with your tutoring services to get results. You can have them set up self-guided programs or offer help via online tutoring services. Next week’s topic will be single skill tutoring methods employed by math tutoring services.
