Investing in a tutor for your child over the summer break has massive play-offs, according to owner of Oxford Learning in Orangeville, Sarah Langelaan
Langelaan says she notices a large difference in children who come to her learning center during summer and those who do not.
She says the children who practice over the summer are much quicker to engage with information and have limber minds than those who do not.
It’s the reason why many school curriculums primarily focus on review in September and October, and a tutor can bridge that gap, according to Langelaan.
And summer tutoring has payoffs for older kids too.
Many adolescents, especially those who do well academically in high school, have a hard time adjusting to post-secondary life as they cannot coast on sheer memorization skills alone.
Langelaan calls college and university a perfect storm for first year students, as they must face massive work-loads, demanding higher-order thinking skills, all while challenging students’ soft skills, such as time-management and discipline.
If you can’t manage tutoring in the summer, she suggests playing card games, cooking and asking your child questions about their environment as an alternative.
For adolescents, Langelaan says summertime jobs are great opportunities to learn essential life skills.
