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ACADEMIC TUTORING SERVICES

 

Tutoring services are becoming more and more accepted by parents as something that is needed and necessary for many students who are trying to navigate today's public education system. As a result, numerous private tutoring companies are springing up to meet these needs and parents are paying a great deal of money to search for ways of providing their children with extra assistance. 

The publisher of Your Career Planner has opened up a practice as an Education & Career Planning Advisor under the name of The Greater Sudbury Learning Clinic. In the future, it is expected that you will see more of these practices opening up as Professional Learning Coaches take their place in society, much like we see offices for other professionals like lawyers, accountants, bookkeepers, tax specialists, doctors, dentists, denturists, massage therapists, physiotherapists, naturopaths, chiropractors, optometrists, podiatrists and acupuncturists. Learning is a very specialized function of the mind that sometimes requires professional treatment, and often is directly affected by other problems of the body. Learning is also something that takes place during one's entire life and directly affects family and career. It is too important to be left to chance.

The Greater Sudbury Learning Clinic is on the leading edge of a new professional service that will soon be taking the country by storm. It will one day be common for a person to have a "Family Education & Career Planning Advisor" just as it is common to have a family doctor, dentist, lawyer, etc.

  

The Greater Sudbury
LEARNING CLINIC

ROBERT KIRWAN   
B.A. (Math), M.A. (Education)

Education & Career Planning Specialist
Professional Learning Coach


 The Greater Sudbury Learning Clinic is a place you can turn to when you have concerns of any kind about education, learning or career planning for you or a member of your family.

In my role as a Professional Learning Coach, it is my responsibility to do whatever I can to develop a program which will assist in the development of appropriate math, reading, writing and/or learning skills that will satisfy the needs of my clients, regardless of their age or background.

SIMILAR TO OTHER PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES

In order to understand how The Greater Sudbury Learning Clinic works, I invite you to compare it to a number of other existing professional practices with which you are already familiar:

bulletIf you have legal concerns, you would visit your family lawyer.
 
bulletIf you have health problems, you would visit your family doctor.
 
bulletIf you have problems with your teeth, you would visit your family dentist.
 
bulletIf you have trouble with dentures, you would visit a denturist or your dentist.
 
bulletIf you have trouble with your back, you would visit your family chiropractor.
 
bulletIf you have trouble with your eyes, you would visit your family optometrist.
 
bulletIf you need help with investing or financial matters, you would visit your financial planner.

Professional experts are there to help you solve your specific problems and provide you with guidance and consultation to move forward with your life. They spend their life becoming experts in their field so that they can provide you with dependable advice and prescribe solutions to your problems.

You may also notice that most families rely upon the professional services of one practitioner in order to maintain long-term consistency in terms of treatment. For example, it makes no sense to go to a different lawyer every time you need legal help, or to a different dentist every time you need work on your teeth. You want someone you have confidence in and who has some knowledge about you and your family.

IF YOU HAVE EDUCATION CONCERNS....

Therefore, since education, learning and career planning are becoming more and more complex, many people are turning to the services of a "Professional Learning Coach" in much the same way they would turn to a family doctor, dentist, chiropractor, or optometrist.

If you have education, learning or career concerns, it only makes sense that you should visit a specialist who is qualified to provide you with effective solutions to your problems. Whereas learning is a complex process which is affected by numerous variables, and whereas education success will impact directly upon career plans and personal goals in life, it is becoming increasingly important for all members of your family to have a person they can turn to for guidance and direction in times of need.

A "Professional Learning Coach" will help you overcome minor challenges that come up from time to time, and he will also help you develop a long-term strategic plan that will help you in all of life's endeavours. The amount of time and the nature of the services you require will depend upon your desired outcomes. 

You don't always need the services of a lawyer, or a doctor, or a dentist, or a chiropractor, or a financial planner, but it is nice to know that you have someone you can contact in times of need. The same is true of a "Professional Learning Coach". You may not always need his services, but it is nice to know that there is someone there to turn to in times of need.
  

What Is The Difference Between 
A Learning Coach and a Tutor?

 
A "Professional Learning Coach" is much more than just a tutor!

While tutoring is something that a "Professional Learning Coach" offers to his clients, the fact is that anyone can be a "tutor". However, not every tutor is capable of being an effective "Learning Coach".. 

A tutor simply helps another person understand specific elements of a particular curriculum in order to pass a course or complete an assignment in one subject area.

A Professional Learning Coach takes the practice of "tutoring" to a much higher level.

In order to help you understand the difference between the services provided by a person who is simply a "tutor" and a  "Professional Learning Coach", consider the following fishing story. 

One day a fisherman was on his way home when he came upon a man sitting by the side of the road with his family. The man explained that he had no money to buy food and that his family was hungry. He asked the fisherman if he had any fish to give him so that he could feed his family. 

The fisherman reached into his sack and gave the man a few of the fish that he had caught that afternoon. The man was grateful for the food. He then lit a fire and fed his family a meal of freshly caught fish. 

The next afternoon a different fisherman was on his way home when he came upon the same family sitting by the side of the road. The man once again explained that he had no money to buy food and that his family was hungry. He then asked the second fisherman if he had any fish to give him so that he could feed his family.

The second fisherman reached into his sack and gave the man a few of the fish he had caught that afternoon.

Instead of leaving, however, while the man's wife was preparing and cooking the fish for dinner, the second fisherman took the man to the nearby stream that was running by the side of the road. The second fisherman then showed the man how to break off a branch to turn it into a fishing pole. The fisherman then gave the man a piece of fishing line and a hook. He showed the man how to attach a berry to the hook and then showed the man how to hold the fishing pole in the water with the hook and berry floating on the surface. The second fisherman stayed with the man until they caught a few fish from the stream. Once the second fisherman was satisfied that the man was able to catch fish on his own, the second fisherman continued on his way down the road, satisfied that the man and his family would never again be hungry.

The first fisherman provided the man with the means of satisfying the immediate hunger of the man and his family. However, the next day the man and his family were hungry again. That is what most tutoring is all about. Tutoring provides short-term solutions to learning problems, but soon those problems come back again.

The second fisherman not only satisfied the immediate hunger of the man and his family, he then showed the man how to catch his own fish and left the man with suitable knowledge and skills to make sure that he would never again go hungry. In fact, the man now had the ability to catch fish for sale to make money to purchase other things for his family. The second fisherman gave the man hope and the ability to make a good life for himself. That is what a "Learning Coach" does.

A "Professional Learning Coach" recognizes the need to solve immediate problems, but also realizes that it is even more important to develop skills which will ensure that those problems never again present the same challenges as they did in the first place.

Anyone can be a "tutor". Anyone can help out with an immediate problem, but it takes a person with special skills and experience to be an effective "Professional Learning Coach".

 
 
  

Your Career Planner Is A Free Public Education Service Provided by
Robert Kirwan, B.A. (Math), M.A. (Education)
Independent Education & Career Planning Coach
Member of the Ontario College of Teachers
His office is located at 4456 Noel Crescent, Val Therese, Ontario P3P 1S8
Phone: (705) 969-7215