ALC Education Center

Wake Education Outreach

lynne — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:18:03 +0000

Our NEW Wake Education Outreach is being launched! We want to help teachers in Wake County Public schools increase their “bag of tricks!” Dr. Lynne Gregorio will come in to Wake County Public schools in Apex and Cary and give teachers presentations on how include different teaching strategies into their classrooms. She can provide this as a scheduled inservice or as a guest lecture where she demonstrates these techniques to students during the school day. Currently topics include teaching multiplication, division, Algebra in the elementary school, and select Algebra 1 topics in the middle or high school. This is a free service offered by Dr. Gregorio as she is dedicated to helping teachers make math more understandable to students. Contact Dr. Gregorio by phone or email.

ALC Offerings

lynne — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:56:55 +0000

The ALC offer services in the following areas:

K-6 Reading & Reading Comprehension
K-6 Writing
K-6 Mathematics
K-3 Handwriting Penmanship
Pre-K Early Reading Program
Pre-K Early mathematics Program
Gifted Math program for K-6
Math Remediation grades K-6
Organization and Study Skills grades 5-10
Middle Grades Mathematics
Algebra 1
Algebra 2
Geometry
Summer Preparation Courses
End of Grade Test Preparation
End of Course Math Tests: Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry
Advanced Functions and Modelling
Calculus 1
AP Statistics including studying for the AP Stat Exam
SAT Mathematics
K-6 Assessments
CogAt Test (AG test given in grade 3) Preparation Course
Certain Formal Educational Testing (CogAt, IOWA Test)
Curriculum Review and Consultations
Contracts for Curriculum Development for K-8 Mathematics

Benefits of our Pre-Teaching Approach

lynne — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:07:27 +0000

Triangle Education Center Tutoring Pre-Teaching Program

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Purpose: The goals of pre-teaching are to provide the student with knowledge of the subject matter prior to the lesson presented by the teacher. The benefits of this approach include:

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1. If the concept is difficult for the student, they will not not waste an exposure with the teacher lesson. Example: Teacher teaches lesson, student doesn’t understand and retains nothing from the lesson. Tutor teaches student, student understands lesson. This gives the student 1 exposure to the lesson. In pre-teaching, the tutor presents the lesson to the student. With the 1:1 lesson, the student is able to understand the lesson. The student then is again presented the lesson by the teacher. The student is able to understand the lesson by the teacher because they were already taught the lesson by the tutor. This gives the student 2 exposures to the lesson.

2. Student develops self-confidence and feels good about their ability to do the math because when the teacher presents the information, they already understand the concept and therefore is able to follow the lesson, answer questions during class, and demonstrate success in homework, quizzes, or tests.

3. The lessons can be taught to students at a much quicker pace than teacher-presented lessons. Due to the skill of the tutor and the 1:1 nature of the session, material that may take a week for a teacher to explain to a class full of students can usually be summarized to the main concepts in just a 1 hour session with the tutor.

4. Students are ahead of the game instead of behind. When tutoring happens after a student doesn’t understand the material – it may be a few days or more before the student gets to see the tutor for his or her weekly or bi-weekly session. During this time, a quiz or graded homework assignment may be assigned and the student did poorly on this assignment due to the timing of the tutoring session.

5. Teachers may use material from lesson A to teach lesson B. If the student is lost on the material from session A, they will be lost on material from session B – this makes for an increased chance of getting further behind.