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Closing Time for Tutor Coach The time has come, after a decade of taking care of this website I've decided I can no longer keep up with it! This website has been such a great community and I've met some amazing people who just blow me away with their talent for...
10 Ways to Spot Dyslexia in Your Tutor Students
|This post contains affiliate links and I will be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on my links.| During my time as a tutor, I've taught reading to several students. I LOVED it, but there was some that I just didn't know what was up until I read...
Tutor Lesson Planning Series: Math
Have you been feeling overwhelmed about how to plan for your math tutoring students? In this post, I’ll share how I plan in addition to what resources I use over and over with my students. We’ll begin with the student inquiry and move on from there to assessment and...
Tutor Lesson Planning Series: Dyslexia
As you've heard me mention many times before, dyslexia affects 1 in 5 children. As a reading tutor, you are going to come across this more than once. I am excited to share with you how Jennifer Lynn Hoffman of WYN Dyslexia Specialists prepares for her students. She...
Tutor Lesson Planning Series: Reading
Many tutors feel overwhelmed at figuring out how to serve their students best when for many their background stems from working within a school where scope, program, sequence, and pacing is all provided for you. After tutors had filled out my last survey, I...
Tutor Lesson Planning Series: ACT, SAT , and PSAT
Andrew Vickery is a civil engineer by day and math/test prep tutor by night (a modern day Clark Kent perhaps--saving students one at a time). He is having great success with his students and wanted to share with the readers here at the Tutor Coach how he creates...
Practical Tips for Working with ADD Students
One day, I was working with a student on order of operations with my student Ray (names have been changed). We were doing an activity that involved math riddles. It was stretching him to his focus abilities. I can't make too much eye contact with this student,...
Getting Organized for New Students: Assessments
This is part 2 of a series of posts where I am sharing my intake process or my new student procedure for tutoring. We'll be covering assessments in this post. If you missed the first part of the intake series, please click here. How I Use Assessments in My Tutor...
AT 004: How Do I Choose an Assessment?
Selecting Assessments This question comes from Catia! She's wanting to know more about selecting assessments to use with her students. Do you have a question about assessments or some other aspect of running a tutor business? Submit your question to...
Get Your Students to Stay Seated, Organized, and Focused
Today is part two of a fantastic set of posts from Anne-Marie Morey of the Bay Tree Blog. I absolutely love the monkey thought idea from part one, I've immediately put that one to use! If you missed part one, you can read it here. If you enjoy this content in any...
Why Your Students Can't Stay Seated, Organized, or Focused (And What To Do About It)
I have a treat for you today! One hot topic in the education world today is executive functioning. Anne-Marie Morey reached out to me to write a post about how to help students that are distracted and disorganized. I would say that 90% of my students fall into that...
How to Use Let's Go Learn Assessments as a Marketing Tool
Grow Your Business by Marketing with Assessments I've written a lot recently about Let's Go Learn assessments. First, I told you how I was going to use them to assess my students and plan-- then I shared how I used the assessment to guide my summer tutoring. Now I...
Summer Tutoring Plans
Using Let's Go Learn Assessments to Guide My Summer Tutoring I've been wanting to write this post for some time, but the month of May got a little crazy as the school year ended. Today, I wanted to show you how I am using my assessments from Let's Go Learn to guide...
The Gift of Learning with Beth Shier
What do dyslexia, ADD, ADHD, laziness, and motivation have in common? You'll have to watch to find out more! Beth Shier, director of NOIT has real life experience with watching her bright, smart child become labeled as difficult, lazy, and uncooperative in the...
Math Test Checklist
Blair of One Lesson at a Time shared a fabulous independent thinker freebie checklist that helps students get to the root of what they really need help with. With her permission, I've created a checklist for math students! This checklist is appropriate for older...
Tutor Reading Assessments
Welcome back to my next assessment discussion - Reading! Whew - Reading can be really overwhelming to pin point exactly where a student needs help. Assessment is vital in finding the missing pieces in the students knowledge. There are two types of assessment:...
Tutor Math Assessments
Thanks for coming back to my tutor assessment week! If you missed my kick off post, you'll want to read it here. Today, let's jump in and look at both free and paid options for assessing your students in math. Math Mammoth: Grades 1-6 This is a wonderful site with a...
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