Need suggestion for tutor to help with testing, not any particular subject
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Anonymous
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My son is 13 and often will take a test and feel like he did really well, only to discover that he has done quite poorly on it. He definitely knows the subject matter and studies hard, I suspect that there is some kind of processing difficulty in reading the directions or understanding what he is supposed to do on the test. It happens in every subject.
Does anyone know of any kind of tutor that can get to the bottom of this? I'm tired of throwing money away on tutors who teach mindfulness and those kinds of strategies, I need someone who will work with him on this particular issue. |
Anonymous
| Does he have an IEP? Is he allowed extra time on the tests? I have a 10 year old with the same problem. He does have slow processing speed and he does have an IEP but he still feels like he aced a test and then he ends up failing it. It's particularly difficult with the SOLs (anything other than math). Can you work it out with the teacher that he takes the tests in a separate environment, maybe with someone reading the questions out loud or with a scribe? I don't think tutors are going to help with this. |
Anonymous
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This is the kind of thing that can be brought up in the context of the IEP meeting. Does the school have a educational skills class for kids with IEPs? The teachers who run that class could be helpful with this.
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Anonymous
Call Educational Connections or Prep Matters |
Anonymous
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Educational Connections is horrible. I wouldn't waste your money on them either.
They sent me a "math teacher" who didn't know how to add fractions. |