Do you want to know how your child is doing in school?
Do you want specific ideas and strategies on how to help your child at home?
Our ASSESSMENT process for grades K-6 can provide you with information on what your child knows, how your child learns best, and what strategies would help your child be more successful in school.
Our assessments cover the following academic areas:
1) Mathematics
2) Reading
3) Spelling
4) Writing
What happens during the assessment?
- First, we meet with the parent to discuss the child. We want to know what the child is good at, what the child struggles with, feedback that the teacher has given to the parent, and results of any testing (formal and class tests).
- Second, we meet with the child and have an interactive session while the child answers questions in the subject area. This is an informal assessment – not a standardized assessment and therefore we can get the big picture about your child, not just how well they can perform on a standardized test. We look at how the student reads a question, how they think through the answer, what strategies he or she uses, and is the answer correct.
- Third, we meet with the parent again to discuss what we found during the session.
- Fourth, we provide you with a written report that tells you what your child knows, what they don’t know, how the child learns and approaches problems, and what educational methods best fit your child and will help the child be successful.
- Lastly, we make recommendations for regular tutoring, parent classes *(see below), and ideas to present to the teacher to get your teacher’s help for improving the academic work of your child.
Formal Assessments: Woodcock Johnson III
We also offer students the opportunity to take a formal standardized assessment, the Woodcock Johnson III test. This test cost is $115.00 and will determine your child’s strengths and weaknesses and allow our center to get a better picture of your child’s needs.
PARENT CONSULTATIONS
WE TUTOR YOU in how to tutor your child
If you don’t have the money to hire a tutor we can help by meeting one on one with you to set up an educational program that you can do at home with your child. We will show you all the “tricks of the trade,” strategies, and curriculum that will allow you to help your child at home by yourself. A person who is not trained in education only knows how to learn using the methods they, themselves, use for learning. This approach may not be the way your child learns. We can map out a self-tutoring program for you that will allow you to help your child. We will continue to support you as you work with your child at home and meet bi-weekly to assess how your child is progressing.
Program Costs
Assessments: Our assessments are very affordable. For a one hour block assessment – our charge is $75.00. This includes 2 meetings with the parent, time with the child for assessment, and a written report. For a two-hour assessment (needed when you need multiple areas assessed) our fee is $125.00. This also includes 2 meetings with the parent, extra time with the child for assessment, and a written report in each subject area assessed.
Tutoring: For elementary school students, our fees start at $25.00 per session for 30 minute sessions and $35.00 45 minute sessions. There is a nominal fee for parent meetings ($10.00) to discuss progress as often as desired by the parent. We do provide you information at the end of each session to let you know what we worked on and how your child did.
For our middle school and high school students who can meet for an hour session, we charge $45.00.
Educational Programs for Parents: Following an assessment, we will provide parents with a written plan for the child to work on at home and teach the parent the appropriate strategies to use with the child. Parent programs cost $40 per session. Sessions run for 45 minutes and include written plan for parents.