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In-Home Tutoring |
08/10/2005
             
Visitors since 22 JUN 2005
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The Blessed Margaret Family Help Center, Inc. has begun a pilot program in
the Cincinnati area to provide in-home tutoring to home schooling
families. The program works like this: a qualified tutor
visits the home 1, 2, or 3 days a week during the school year. The
tutors are providing the curriculum at present but this doesn't
necessarily have to be the case. Our tutors could work with your
curriculum as well. The tutors spend 2 to 4 hours in the home during
each visit, explaining the new assignments, answering questions, and
giving tests. They leave assignments to cover the period until the
next in-home visit. You serve as the teacher/proctor in the
between-visit period. We have one tutor who is presently teaching
kindergarten for 2 families and one tutor who is teaching the Freshman
year of high school to two different families. We are currently providing tutors for only school subjects but we are working at contracting with people knowledgeable in all skill areas in what you might call, Catholic home life. We will begin with in-home piano lessons but hope to provide tutors for these, and other subjects as well:
The rates are reasonable, we charge a flat rate per hour, the current rate for in-home school subject tutoring is $12 per hour along with a mileage charge based on the round trip distance from the tutor's home to yours. We charge a sliding scale: 1 to 10 miles is 25 cents per mile with a minimum daily charge of $1, 10+ to 20 miles is 20 cents per mile, and 20+ to 100 miles is 16 cents per mile. After 100 miles, you are pretty well beyond our coverage, sorry! At present, we don't charge for text books which are on loan unless you damage the books which we of course would expect you to cover. Any copying charges are your responsibility. The school year consists of 4 9-week quarters. The first 8 weeks are the instructional period of the quarter with the 9th week being for finals. The tutor doesn't visit during finals week. What are your responsibilities? You provide a useful learning setting, whether it's a separate classroom with desks or your kitchen table. You are responsible for the discipline, so if little Johnny gets out of line, it's your responsibility to take care of him. You see that the assignments are done on-time and neatly. You make sure that your child is applying himself and using the time between visits productively. Simple, huh? We have four families that we are working with at present at we'd love to help you with your home schooling. Contact us at postmaster@blessedmargaret.org if you are interested. |
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