Our Goals
Our mission is to provide lower and middle income families with a FREE self- tutoring site for your children. No child should be left behind. In today's world of materialism and skyrocket profits of the major educational tutoring businesses across our nation,( such as Huntington, C2, Sylvan, Club Z and many others) only the wealthy have the needed funds to properly educate their children. We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting parents with the necessary tools needed to ensure that your child succeeds in their educational career. Yes, this will demand your involvement in your child's education. Yes, this will require you to set aside time to help your child succeed academically, but we can supply you with these tools and will assists you with any questions about our site. (Contact Us)
This is a FREE Website not only for parents and their children, but for teachers, future teachers, education majors, school administrators, independent tutors and for those special, but rare, students who have been blessed with the motivation to teach themselves. Yes, we have provided the resources for those special motivated children.
I want to provide a refuge for parents who are financially hindered, especially during this present recession that has seemed to linger on for too many years. Education is the tool out of poverty. Parents, please take time to assists your students in their educational career. I know that many parents lack the funds for extra academic help, but you have the time to take on this task yourself. We will assists to with this task. We are here, FREE for the education of your children
We are now in the process of expanding our FREE services into major cities that have been hit hard by unemployment, natural disasters, poverty and the present economic slow down. Soon the following cities will be able to access our general and state specific educational resources by when the school year begins in August 2011: New York City, New Orleans, Detroit, Cleveland, Dallas, Houston and Jackson, Mississippi. We are working diligently to have these resources available by August 2011. We will continue to build these resources as the school year progresses. We want to make a difference in the education of the children in these cities by providing FREE educational resources. NO CHILD SHOULD BE LEFT BEHIND IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. We are proud to be a part of this movement. Please join us by imforming other parents about our free services.
To survive and succeed in today's global economy, our students must be taught efficient research skills, which will empower them to teach themselves. We must encourage our children to actively process information and develop deeper understanding, rather than just learning facts by rote and not having the cognitive skills to apply them.
This website teaches the skill of self-correction, which allows the child the chance to put the error right themselves. A teachers most important goal is to help students become independent learners. As a teacher, you try to work yourself out of a job.
An educator's most important goal is to help students become independent learners.
As a tutor, you try to work yourself out of a job.
There's an old saying:
If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life.
This website is dedicated to the present technology that has been introduced in the classroom. SMART BoardTM and Promethean interactive whiteboards are interactive whiteboards developed by SMART and Promethean Technologies. When introduced in 1991, it was the first interactive whiteboard to provide touch control of comuter applications and annotation over standard Microsoft Windows applications.
Join millions of students and teachers around the world who choose the SMART Board and Promethean interactive whiteboards to help improve learning outcomes. Combining the simplicity of a whiteboard with the power of a computer, the SMART Board and Promethean interactive whiteboards let you deliver dynamic lessons, write notes in digital ink, and save your work - all with the simple touch of a finger.
Sincerely.
Richard Mentor / Webmaster / Curriculum Development
BS Elementary Education
BS Music Education
BS Information Technology
Microsoft Certified Professional
Contact UsI have been in the field of education since 1982. My career began after graduating from Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education with a minor in Christian Education.
After graduation, I moved to Dallas, Texas upon where I was employed by the Dallas Independent School District teaching the elementary grades. I taught third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades concentrating in language arts, math and computer science.
I also taught at St. Philip's Episcopal School and Community Center, an Episcopal mission school in inner city Dallas, Texas, teaching grades second and third. St Phillip's recruited inner city children to its religious and educational complex exposing these students to an advanced math, language and computer science curriculum.
In 1989, after the completion of a computer degree, I was employed as a medical computer instructor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, training physicians, research technicians, medical students and all university staff. I also developed computer curriculum and training manuals for all IBM and VAX mainframes.
In 1994, I entered the corporate environment as a computer trainer, software installer and help desk technician for thirteen years.
I am presently tutor for the government funded, "No Child Left Behind".
------------------------------MY Goals As A Teacher--------------------------
To survive and succeed in today's global economy, our students must be taught efficient research skills, which will empower them to teach themselves. We must encourage our children to actively process information and develop deeper understanding, rather than just learning facts by rote and not having the cognative skills to apply them.
I teach the skill of self-correction, which allows the child the chance to put the error right themselves. A tutor's most important goal is to help students become independent learners. As a tutor, you try to work yourself out of a job.
A tutor's most important goal is to help students become independent learners.
As a tutor, you try to work yourself out of a job.
There's an old saying:
If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life.
As a Tutor, I teach active learning, Below is an example of passive learning verses active learning
Passive Learning:
Tutor:
Here, let me show you how to do that.
Active Learning:
Tutor:
What section of the textbook discusses this?
They are Empowering themselves to have the ability to teach themselves!
Sincerely,
Mr. Richard Mentor
B.S. Elementary Education / Belhaven University
B.S. Information Technology / DeVry University
B.S Music Education / Kent State University
Microsoft Certified Professional/Windows NT/Windows2000/WindowsXP
A+ Certified Computer Technician
Network + Certified Network Technician
Education
Kent State University 1966-1970
Kent, Ohio
Music Education
Secondary Education
University of New Orleans 1976-1979
New Orleans, La.
Music Theory
Educational Psychology
Belhaven College 1979-1982
Jackson, Mississippi
Elementary and Christian Education
Contol Data Institute 1985-1986
Dallas, Texas
Computer Programming
Texas Institute 1988-1989
Dallas, Texas
Computer Server Operations IBM
DeVry University 2001-2002
Atlanta, Georgia
Information Technology/
Web Design
Microsoft Certified Professional
NT 4.0, Windows 2000,WindowsXP
A Plus Certified Computer Technician
Network Plus Certified Network Technician
Certified teacher in the states of Georgia, Texas and Mississippi
Richard Mentor
Eucator
