Tutoring Session Two:
I spent a few hours entering my student's assessment test into the test database. The scores were not a surprise to me but they certainly would be to his parents. I know everyone wants to think their child is on the road to being a genius but really if your child is not reading the phone book at age three, it is a little difficult to convince mainstream education that your child is a misunderstood genius. I thought about my approach to my student's parents and how my game plan would need to be clear and concise on how the assessment scores were directly linked with their son's performance in school. I spent a few hours preparing a long term goal setting sheet with goals directly linked to performance targets.
Well, his folks took the assessment scores okay considering they truly thought the only reason their son was behind in school was because his biological father had unexpectedly passed away a few months earlier. The reality was their son had excellent math scores but he didn't follow through with his work and was sloppy. He had 99% of the answers but the answer was still wrong. My student's language arts and vocabulary skills were nearly a grade level behind. This was surprising as the student had an "A to B" average in English and Language Arts.
The assessment score tutoring session is a lot for parents to take in and longer for them to wrap their arms around the information. It is best to let parents review the material and then give me a call in a few days to discuss scores.
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