Specialized Tutoring
If you’d like your primary school student to have the best instruction possible and learn the core skills needed for them to enjoy success throughout their academic career, we’d suggest you inquire about our Direct Instruction teaching service.
The Problem With Traditional Tutoring
Tutoring fulfills a need. That need could be a struggle to fully understand concepts being taught, trouble with tests and exams, a sudden jump in the perceived difficulty of the material being covered, a realization that it’s becoming difficult to keep up with the class… and the solution of a traditional tutor rarely solves the underlying problem. A student might get through that difficult assignment with help, complete the homework after being walked through it, and pass the test after intensive studying, but the knowledge required to do the work independently won’t sink in, and they’ll be faced with an even bigger struggle in the future.
The frustrating reality is that, if the proper foundation for learning hasn’t been created, any knowledge placed upon it won’t last.
Our Solution: Direct Instruction Based Tutoring Principles
At Firefly Education, we use our extensive training and familiarity with the excellent instruction practices developed for the Direct Instruction curriculum and apply them to our specialized tutoring service. Whether it be tutoring in mathematics, tutoring in the sciences (including chemistry, physics and biology), tutoring in language (including English, French and Spanish), or tutoring in the social sciences (including history, geography and economics), we offer sophisticated tutoring with the complex goal to both support current assignments, projects, tests and exams while also identifying fundamental areas in need of strengthening and working on those areas.
Correctly identifying and correcting the cause of the current struggles results in more confident, successful students. Students who are more independent require less and less intervention. Specialized tutoring with Firefly Education really is more than tutoring: we teach our students to mastery while tutoring them in their studies.
From late primary school, through high school, into university, we offer our specialized tutoring in many subjects. Contact us to discuss your specific needs and how we can help.