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5 Reasons Families Prefer In Center Tutoring Over Online Tutoring

When students need additional help with their classes and coursework, they seek help from other sources. While parents may be able to help initially, there generally comes a time when the family decides they need a third party involved. So, they decide to hire a tutor.

Over the years, several types of tutoring options have become available. In recent years, there has been an increase in online tutoring. With so many services now being offered online, it seems almost natural that tutoring would move in the same direction. But we have found that families still firmly believe in the success of in person tutoring at an AdvancED accredited tutoring center and find that, overall, it is a better choice.

Why families prefer in-center tutoring over online tutoring…

 

1. DEVELOP STRONGER CONNECTIONS

The key to a successful tutoring experience is a trusted relationship between the tutor and the student. A student who is comfortable and relaxed with a tutor will be more productive and see more progress. It is much easier to build a personal relationship in person than online. You can read body language and social cues. Omega tutors discover how each student learns most effectively and uses the best teaching resources for that student!

 

2. REQUIRES LESS TECHNOLOGY

Online tutoring requires that a student have several basic components — a computer, a webcam, and a microphone…for starters. Not to mention a connection to the internet. Advanced tutoring may even require digital drawing pads. And if one of those components breaks or one party loses electricity, the tutoring gets put on hold.

 

 3. EASIER TO FOCUS

When a student and tutor are working face-to-face, it is much easier to stay focused on the task. By choosing an AdvancED accredited tutoring center, developed to optimize the learning experience, the tutor can have the student’s undivided attention. And it’s still easy to get up and stretch if you need a break.

 

4. VERIFIED TUTOR BACKGROUND

Not all online tutoring comes from a reputable source. While there are many online tutoring sources out there, it can be difficult to ensure your online tutor is qualified. Online businesses rarely interview their tutors in person. A person may be thoroughly background checked and have a Ph.D., but that is not an indication of their character or teaching style. How can you tell from an online profile if a tutor will be a good fit for your student? You can’t.

 

5. TUTOR PERSONALITY

Is your child’s tutor a good personality fit? In order to build a positive, trusting relationship, it is important that your tutor is sensitive, creative, and flexible to your student’s needs. These qualities are hard to distinguish from an online profile. But, when certified teachers are hand-selected by an AdvancED accredited tutoring center, you can rest assured you are getting the best of the best!

 

Before you hire a tutor, ask Omega Learning® Center how we select, background check, and train our certified teachers. Find a center today: 770-422-3510

Get To Know Our Tutors

 Omega tutors are teachers.

Our tutors are qualified, motivated, and certified teachers K-8 who care about your student’s success.

 

 Omega tutors produce results.

Omega tutors achieve results using our AIM Tutoring System®. The average academic growth is 2 years and 2 months after completing our program.

 

 Omega tutors are dynamic.

Our tutors engage their students and our OutpAce® curriculum, including auditory, visual, and tactile instructional methods to achieve accelerated growth and lasting results.

 

 Omega tutors are educated.

Many Omega tutors have master’s degrees and special education degrees, and all must complete the Omega training/certification program.

 

 Omega tutors are local.

Our tutors live and work in our community. They believe in the power of a strong education and its value for your student’s future.

 

 Omega tutors are connected.

Omega tutors send daily email updates to our students’ parents and schoolteachers to keep everyone informed on the Academic Team.

 

 

Experience the Omega Difference

  Omega Centers Provide Assessments. 

Students receive an assessment at the beginning and the end of their program to validate academic growth. We administers the Woodcock Johnson IV – the industry’s most highly-regarded method of individual assessment. In addition, Omega administers MyStudyStyle®, our learning style assessment.

 

 Omega Centers Provide Consistency. 

Omega students work with the same tutor each week. This level of consistency allows our tutors to observe each student’s learning style and employ specific instructional techniques to achieve lasting results.

 

 Omega Tutors Communicate. 

Our tutors send daily email updates to parents and teachers at school. Programs include a  half-point conference with the tutor and a final conference to review the post assessment, program goals, and academic growth.

 

 Omega Tutors Use A System. 

Omega’s AIM Tutoring System® stands for Apply, Integrate, and Manage. It provides the instructional framework for our tutors, where they can access supplemental teaching resources, Omega’s OutpAce® curriculum, progress management tools, and communications platform.

 

 Omega Tutors Tailor Instruction.

Omega understands that each student is unique. Based on your assessment results, current study habits, grades in school, learning style, and family goals, we develop a customized a program so that every student benefits from our 3:1 learning environment.

 

 Omega Centers Support Schools.

We are a true educational advocate and community partner. Omega sponsors teacher breakfasts, PTSA events, school sports teams, reading programs, math and S.T.E.M. program, and school festivals.

 

 Omega Tutors Are Certified.

Omega hires only certified teachers for grades K-8. Our tutors are also AIM Tutoring System® certified through handbook, video, and peer-to-peer training.

 

 Omega Centers Are Accredited.

Omega centers are accredited through AdvancED in every state. Omega Learning® is the country’s only tutoring franchise system to have achieved this level of national accreditation. AdvancED is the world’s largest education community, engaging 32,000 public and private schools across the US and 70 other countries.

 

 

Moving Ahead in Math and Science

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When it comes to mathematics, middle schoolers continue to develop proficiency in computing with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percentages. They also delve more deeply into geometry, probability, and statistics, and start honing their algebraic reasoning skills. Data analysis is a major focus, with students recording and analyzing information in tables, charts, and graphs.

The idea is to help students identify patterns of change and linear and non-linear relationships — a crucial component of algebra and other advanced forms of math and science. Other things that middle-school students will work on:

A Push Toward Algebra

A movement to make math more rigorous in the middle-school years has resulted in an increased emphasis on algebra, and a push to integrate it with geometry and other topics in the curriculum. The reason: as a “gatekeeper” to more advanced studies, algebra provides children with a clear advantage. Consequently, many schools push pre-algebra and algebraic reasoning at an earlier age. In 6th grade, for instance, children will solve word problems using graphs, tables, and equations. They will also work to solve simple equations containing a variable, such as 27 = 4x + 3. Eventually, students will become more adept at translating word and geometric problems into equations, and solving them.

 

Physical, Life, and Earth Sciences

Middle-school students delve into more sophisticated hands-on science activities and experiments, and material that continues to deepen their understanding of these three disciplines. Concepts, skills, and terminology become more advanced, laying the groundwork for high school biology, chemistry, and physics.For example, students might examine the structure of cells, atoms, and molecules, study the periodic table and various chemical reactions, learn about the tectonic plates, and examine the hows and whys of earthquakes and volcanoes. Students will be expected to do more research, using outside sources such as reference books, magazine articles, and the Internet. And they’ll be asked to share their work in written, oral, or multimedia presentations.

 

More and More Math

Math will play a larger part in science during the middle-school years, as students measure, weigh, calculate, and record data in graphs, charts, and diagrams.They learn to become more systematic in how they control variables, make observations, collect evidence, and record data. Middle-school students may get additional opportunities to plan, conduct, and showcase their own experiments at science fairs. Fairs, which can be classroom-based, school-wide, or regional, require students to conduct an independent-research project on a subject of their own choosing, then exhibit and defend their findings.

Omega Learning® Center offers Tutoring K-12 with certified teachers for every subject in school. Stop by an Omega Learning® Center near you. https://omegalearning.com/find-tutors/ 

 

Source: http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/article/what-to-expect-grade/moving-ahead-math-and-science