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 Sylvan
Learning Center
While
I maintain no affiliation with, or ever have professional or personal
grudges against Sylvan Learning Center, I do have an awareness of what
it takes to operate a successful tutoring system, in general, and
after- school tutoring program in particular.
As an associate professor in English and colleague to an ESL professor
who enlisted me to help him open and run an after school tutoring
business, I have found out that the most important (most effective)
aspects in the tutoring business are the learner-center model and the
reinforcement of academic protocol techniques.
Well, this may sound like a lot scholarly, if you
are looking for details about Sylvan Learning Center, thus, I will
refrain citing pedagogic elements and offer you some specific
information, instead.
Sylvan Learning Center personalizes their teaching approach by
customizing a program for each individual learner. The
trained and credentialed members of the faculty create special
assignments and study tools, such as handouts with erasable plastic
covers, which cater to the specific needs of each student in his or her
area of discipline where he or she needs help.
The tutoring methods are academically sound, based on years of multiple
studies and practice. Those methods mimic and/or
reinforce the process each child learns in his or her regular school
classes. Officials at Sylvan Learning Center confer with
schools and teachers, in some cases, to ensure a more seamless process
and approach to learning.
You have probably seen, heard, or read about Sylvan Learning
Center’s advantage: with teachers performing
diagnostics, to identify each child’s areas of strength and
weaknesses. Customization follows next.
This is done with the use of handouts, texts, and computer-assisted
learning tools (hardware and software) to build learning skills,
enhance knowledge, and increase confidence levels.
Acquiring high esteem-level results in higher access rates in school.
In addition, Sylvan is no longer purely in-person or in-center, but is
now available as online support. This is live and also
personalized, which affords busy parent(s) the luxury of the
same level of support his and/or her child’s academic needs
get satisfied as if in actual school set-up.
And it doesn’t hurt the wallet.
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