Phases of Learning: Your tutoring experience may progress from assessment to mastery and beyond. 

• Assessment: The tutor identifies baseline skills, i.e., the student's current strengths and areas of need.

• ​Goals: The tutor and student or student's parents collaborate to set unique goals with mastery criteria.

• Mastery: Every session, the student practices English, taking a step closer to mastering goals. The tutor records the student's progress, which may include graphs. 

• Generalization: The tutor guides the student toward generalization, i.e., applying mastered skills in varied and novel contexts. Having learned the general principle behind a skill, the student practices the mastered skill across diverse settings, people, instructions, and materials, in addition to producing varied and original responses. The purpose is to make new skills practical, relevant, and meaningful in the student's life. If tutoring is for your child, you and another family member may participate in part of the sessions, as well as create and discover opportunities for your child to practice in between tutoring sessions.  

• Maintenance: The tutor checks maintenance, which is the persistence of skills over time. This is so important, considering that new skills build upon each other. The true test of learning is the independent demonstration of generalization and maintenance.

• Independence: At Inspire, the ultimate goal is the student's independence in using English, not only in academic contexts but also throughout life. The tutor's job is to gradually work herself out of a job, as the student becomes more and more independent!

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English Tutoring Services: 

• Homework help

• Test preparation

• Mastery, generalization, and maintenance of reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills

• English language arts enrichment, building on mastered skills of the student's choice 

• Executive functioning skills development (study skills, self-management, planning, time-management, organization, setting goals and measuring progress independently, etc.)

• Tutoring tips for parents 

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English Skills the Student Learns:

• Reading: decoding, phonological and phonemic awareness, reading fluency, reading comprehension, inferences, and vocabulary development

• Writing: grammar, mechanics, diction, summarizing, journaling, writing essays (narrative, descriptive, expository, reflective, persuasive, literary analysis, etc.), report writing, creative writing, and stages of the writing process

• Listening, speaking, and presentation: listening comprehension, literary discussion, writing and rehearsing speeches and audiovisual presentations

• Critical thinking and reasoning: writing and speaking such that your premises support your conclusion