Avoid Summer Learning Loss With Richmond Tutor Doctor
As the school year comes to and end, many parent’s start thinking about ways to keep their children occupied during the long summer months. Day camps, pool passes and neighborhood play dates are on everyone’s mind but what will happen to all the important information that children learned in school that year? What many parents don’t know is that kids experience a phenomenon called “summer learning loss ”.
Essentially, they forget a lot of what they learned in the previous school year over the summer months. In fact, studies have shown that kids lose more than two and a half months worth of math skills in the summertime. For kids that were already struggling in math, this means that they will start off the next school year even further disadvantaged. And it’s not just math. Overall, kids lose an average of 1 month of learning in other subjects during the summer. Think of athletes. Imagine if they stopped training for 2-3 months in the year. You would expect that when they return to their sport, that they would experience a lag in performance. The brain is no different. It needs to be exercised.
“Students in Richmond and Central Virginia can get a significant jump on the school year by using Tutor Doctor,” said Steve Magat. “Many students go through what we call the ‘summer brain drain’ and in many cases forget much of what they learned the previous year. We help students, and parents, achieve their educational goals with programs that are specifically designed to fit the needs of each individual.”
Tutor Doctor, a rapidly expanding one-on-one, in-home tutoring service designed to help students from ages six to 106, in Richmond is offering the community and students a private, easy way to catch-up or get ahead in their education.
