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ACADEMIC TUTORING SERVICES |
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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. |
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The Greater Sudbury
LEARNING CLINIC
ROBERT KIRWAN
B.A. (Math), M.A. (Education)
Education & Career Planning Specialist
Professional Learning Coach |
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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:
 | If you have legal concerns, you would visit your family lawyer.
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| If you have health problems, you would visit your family doctor.
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| If you have problems with your teeth, you would visit your
family dentist.
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| If you have trouble with dentures, you would visit a denturist
or your dentist.
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| If you have trouble with your back, you would visit your
family chiropractor.
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| If you have trouble with your eyes, you would visit your
family optometrist.
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| If 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.
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What Is The Difference Between
A Learning Coach and a Tutor?
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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.
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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". |
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