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Quick Study offers three tutoring options
Program I
Tutoring
K-5 – all subjects
Middle and High School – Reading for Content, Writing, Spanish, Study Skills
Program II
Body/Mind Work – Finding Focus
Many of today’s students struggle with organizing their physical world and simply staying on task. This approach uses movement, voice and rhythm to build pattern recognition in a child, a skill essential not only to creative expression but to assimilating academic information as well. The student and tutor take turns as “lead,” using our bodies, drums and voices to throw back –and- forth ever longer sequences, starting extremely simply and building, over time, to greater intricacy and speed.
By engaging all three parts of the brain in this process – the cognitive, sensate, and emotional centers – learning is maximized. The whole child is brought into play, and “play” is the operative word. In addition to the rhythm sequences, I use a variety of other tools, all to the end of increasing physical and mental fluidity and concentration. – i.e. elements of Feldenkrais work and Anne Green Gilbert’s The Brain Dance, a routine based on the developmental movement patterns human beings experience in the first year of life, portions of which are shown in this video segment. Music on video segment by Eric Chappelle.
The body-mind work can be used as a break-out time that frames the homework of the day, or it can be woven into the study of the subject matter itself. When homework is viewed as an interactive experience, attitudes change.
Program III
English as a Second Language
Adult and/or child English Language Learners improve speaking skills through situation-based lessons in this approach. They hear and practice the phrases for everyday activities: buying food at the store, ordering in a restaurant, opening a bank account, counting and receiving change correctly, taking a message on the telephone, etc. Reading and writing practice is interwoven with the building of oral and aural skills. For the intermediate and advanced level student, grammar is addressed as a separate element.
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