One to One: Tutoring & Relationship Building
Daily tutoring is useful and enjoyable thanks to Middlebridge’s dedicated tutorial staff, whose adaptive, prescriptive, and diagnostic approach to working with our students not only prioritizes skill development, but also focuses on growth mindset: the notion that struggle yields rewards.
Our MBS tutors individually coach students to become the most effective learners they can be relative to their learning profiles, personal strengths, and challenges while bolstering students’ personal management and executive function skills. A tutor may: work on time-management; task-management; self-management; study skills and test preparation; writing; and stress-management. Teaching students how to self-advocate and to develop working systems for “taking care of the small things,” underscores how seriously we take our relationships with students—we build collaboration through trust and mutual respect.
Tutoring sessions are rooted in immediate academic assistance needed, for example with decoding language; fluency; visualization and verbalization; comprehension; and college-level writing readiness. All of our tutors are Orton-Gillingham trained to include explicit, systematic, and diagnostic-prescriptive instruction. Our educators stay apprised of the most progressive teaching practices, particularly in Structured Literacy theory.
Ultimately, our tutors help students transcend diagnoses and prescriptions through adaptive strategies and emotionally sound instruction. They teach in multiple modalities to build from simple to complex thinking. In this approach, students feel successful which opens them up to achieving greater academic accomplishments.
Our Guiding Principles
Academic and emotional growth occur simultaneously.
All programs must be tailored to the individual student.
Strong interpersonal relationships are the foundation for creating a trusting and supportive educational environment.
For students to meet potential and to create positive growth across settings, strong partnerships with parents and families are cultivated.
Educators must be dynamic and work collaboratively with one another to understand how to best serve each individual student.
Curriculum that is integrated across settings becomes reinforced and mastered by the student.
Students must be taught to develop their strengths and use their talents so they can grow into confident and self-aware learners who are prepared for success in the global community.