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Learning Skills

What are learning skills?

Learning skills are the steps or strategies a person uses to learn. It may surprise you, but there are many ways a person can learn. A person’s learning strategy is greatly affected by what is called a person’s preferred representation system. Does a person prefer to interact with the world primarily visually or auditorially or kinesthetically? If the person’s preferred representation system does not suggest an effective learning strategy, the person ends up with poor results or has to work much harder to compensate.

What we are teaching are new learning strategies which have been shown countless times to be the most effective way to learn. Learning strategies are similar to habits. Installing a new strategy is like forming a new habit--it takes time. It requires repetition to make the new effective strategy the operative one.

Mastering learning skills is similar to learning to playing a sport. The coach shows the player how to be effective and the degree of success is a direct result of the player’s practice. Fortunately, these learning skills only take a few minutes a day for a few weeks to become proficient.

Unlike tutoring, we teach you how to learn so that you are free to learn independently.

"Give A Man A Fish, Feed Him For A Day.

Teach A Man To Fish, Feed Him For A Lifetime”.

Our skill training generally takes 8-12 sessions. The normal skill training starts with the five basic learning skills—spelling strategy; math strategy; memorizing facts and data; memorizing vocabulary; and reading comprehension. After, working with the student and consulting with the parent/guardian additional learning skills are taught, it has been found that these skills will help raise a person’s self-esteem and eliminate previous academic issues.

Importance of learning skills

Learning skills unlike subject content apply to many academic activities. For example learning to spell correctly helps in spelling tests, writing reports, and answering questions on essay tests. Learning reading comprehension helps when studying, taking tests, and utilizing information in the future.

What is necessary for success?

For the student to become successful the student must learn the new strategy and practice daily until the new strategy becomes the preferred operative strategy. This generally takes practicing a strategy for about 15 minutes a day for three to four weeks. The student can use the current academic assignments. Generally, it takes less time to do assignments using the new strategy than using the old strategy. Therefore, the study time will be reduced immediately, grades start improving, and the new more effective strategy becomes the operative strategy.

What the A+ Learning Consultant will do

Your consultant is your learning coach for this short journey to attaining the skills necessary for academic excellence. Your consultant will evaluate the student’s needs; teaches the appropriate learning strategies to both the student and the parent/guardian; and reviews and adjusts the skill training to ensure mastery of the learning skills with the least amount of effort.

What must the parent/guardian do?

To insure success, the parent/guardian needs to insure the student practices the new skills correctly and regularly until the new strategy become the operative strategy. To accomplish this, the parent/guardian, has a few options.

Option1

The parent learns the strategies and helps the student practice the strategies as taught. Although the skills are simple, the maximum results are achieved by practicing them daily. For this option a parent/guardian must be present during every session to learn the strategies themselves so they can help the student.

Option2

We provide tutoring services for parents that prefer professional reinforcement of the learning strategies using the student's current assignments and interests. This insures the student not only learns the learning skills, but also current school material. To insure the skills become operative as soon as possible more sessions can be scheduled closer together.

What must student do?

The student must practice the new strategies every day until the new strategies are the operative ones. During daily academic work, the student must use the new strategies in place of their old strategies.

Overall success plan

The first session is an evaluation session where we determine the needs with consultation of the parent/guardian.

The following skill sessions begin with a quick review and a progress check since the last session.

If satisfactory mastery has been attained, a new strategy is introduced and practiced.

Student practice is outlined. For each new strategy, there will be a handout provided which include a way to determine if the student is practicing correctly. We cannot over state the importance of checking to be sure the student is practicing the new strategy rather than using the old familiar strategies which has proven unsatisfactory.

Option 1 student practice: Between skill sessions, the student and parent/guardian practice as outlined.

Generally the student practice consists of using a strategy for about 15 minutes a day. Keep it fun. This practice continues until the new strategy is the operative one.

Option 2 student practice: Between skill sessions, the student participates in our one-on-one practice session. In these sessions, the student practices the outlined student practice using the student's current assignments and interests.

Generally these sessions last about one hour. The recommended number of sessions varies from student to student. Generally one or two session per week is adequate. This practice continues until the new strategy is the operative one.

Key Benefits

Parents, imagine how good you will feel when your children could get their school work done in less time with better grades.

College students, imagine how good you will feel when you are able to finish studying and your assignments in less time with better grades.

Adult learners, imagine how good you will feel when you learn those new concepts in less time and get that promotion.

You may wonder how this is possible.

Through a systematic approach to learning based upon the most advanced learning and skill building techniques .

Success Skills for Learning helps you:

Put the fun back into learning.
Overcome learning obstacles.
Be and effective learner.

Become the STAR you know you are--join us at A+ Learning Solutions and shine.

Capabilities

This section provides brief description of the learning strategies and skills the we provide.

One-on-one Tutoring: We provide tutoring services for parents that prefer professional reinforcement of the learning strategies using the student's current assignments and interests. This insures the student not only learns the learning skills, but also current school material.

Spelling Strategies: The most successful strategies for your student to get A's on their very next spelling test.

Math Facts Strategies: A powerful strategy for learning both addition and subtraction or multiplication and division in weeks.

Learning Vocabulary: Learn vocabulary in a fast and easy way.

Memorizing Facts and Data: Memorize facts and data in a fast and easy way.

Reading Comprehension Strategies: In the first three grades the focus in on reading the text, then the focus becomes comprehension to text. The reading comprehension strategy shows the student how to read once and understand what they read.

Math Strategies: The are three major stumbling block to learning math--building skills, learning to think about math, and attention to details. Our learning coaches help the student "knock" these blocks down once and for all. Allowing the student to become proficient in approaching math now and the the future.

Writing Strategies: Although students have the knowledge and information in their heads, writing compositions or term papers may be a daunting task for some. Our learning coaches teach organizational techniques for writing and provide your child with new ways of thinking about the the knowledge and information.

Language Arts Strategies: Language arts can be one of the more "boring" subjects. Our learning coach provide your child with more interesting approaches to language arts.

Foreign Language Strategies: A big part of learning a foreign language is learning the vocabulary. Our learning coach shows how to apply the vocabulary strategy to a foreign language.

Customized Learning Strategies: For specialized learning tasks, we can use modeling techniques to develop strategies for specific tasks.

Note Taking Strategies: While taking notes the student may not full engaged in the class discussion. When this occurs, noting can become a hindrance to learning. The note taking strategy is not only easy, but fun.

Test Taking Skills: Taking a test involves more than studying. It takes skills. Our learning coaches can provide your child with many simple and effective test taking skills.

Eliminating Test and Performance Anxiety: Test or performance anxiety can range from a mild case of the butterflies, to a raging phobia which completely blocks success. Our learning coaches utilize some of the most advanced techniques for eliminate test and performance anxiety.

Making ANY Subject Interesting: The lack of interest on a student's part can be one of the most insidious sources of failure in school . Our learning coaches use some of the most advanced techniques for engaging the student's interest in any subject.

Developing Positive Attitudes Toward Learning and School: Not having a proper attitude toward school and learning gets in the way of enjoying school. Our learning coaches use sophisticated techniques for helping the student develop positive attitudes towards learning and school.

Remembering to Do Things: Does your child forgets to bring books home or turn in completed homework. Our learning coaches can show your child a simple yet effective strategy for this behavior.

Dyslexia Symptoms: We do not diagnose. What has been observed is that when a student possess effective learning skills their self-confidence is raised, they feel empowered, and previous symptoms lessen or disappear.

ADD/ADHD Symptoms: We do not diagnose. What has been observed is that when a student possess effective learning skills their self-confidence is raised, they feel empowered, and previous symptoms lessen or disappear.

Rates

Activity	Price
Learning Skills Coaching	$60.00 per hour
One-on-one Tutoring	$60.00 per hour

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