My Background and Goals
My mission is to provide lower and middle income families with affordable one-on-one tutoring for your children. My prices are 50% to 60% lower than most tutoring agencies in the Atlanta metropolitan area. At Elementary School Tutoring Services, your child will not be left behind.
I 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 a tutor for the government funded, "No Child Left Behind" and a substitute teacher in a local school district in Atlanta, Georgia.
------------------------------MY Goals As A Tutor--------------------------
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.
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
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
Control 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
Present Studies
Kennesaw State University 2008
Marietta, Georgia
Curriculum Instructional Design
Computer Certifications
Microsoft Certified Professional
NT 4.0, Windows 2000,WindowsXP
A Plus Certified Computer Technician
Network Plus Certified Network Technician
MCDST
Certified teacher in the states of Georgia, Texas and Mississippi
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