What do you receive from My Learning Partners?

•         Weekly analysis of students from the center.  Dr. Matt will perform progress analysis for every student which the College Nannies & Tutors (CN&T) center sends One-Minute Timing Test results.  It is not limited to problematic students; it is equally important to know that a student’s progress is on target.  Dr. Matt will send a report back to the CN&T center each week on every student.

•         Feedback on whether the student is progressing at a rate that will make learning efficient for each individual student.

•         Confirmation that what you are doing is the correct and most efficient method for each individual student in many cases.

•         Early warning when the student’s progress falls outside the performance parameters set by their initial testing, whether the student is progressing too slow or too fast.

•         Provide intervention and teaching method suggestions if a problematic pattern develops so that the student’s progress or growth rate is brought back on track as quickly as possible 

•         As each student has different learning patterns that work best for them, the objective is to progress through suggested interventions and adjustments to determine whether or not that invention is working for the student as quickly as possible.  If the student does not show improved growth within a week, the intervention should be discarded and another intervention or adjustment attempted.  The objective is to find what works best for that particular student in as short a time frame as possible.

•         Monitoring of each intervention or adjustment to ensure that it sets the student’s growth rate back within their performance parameters, if it is the correct intervention.

•         Feedback is provided on a weekly basis as to whether or not the intervention is working as expected.  Generally 3 or 4 data points (results of each day’s One-Minute Timing Test) are required for a meaningful analysis.   If it is not working, another intervention or adjustment is suggested in the shortest possible time frame. 

•         Projections, drawn from the individual student’s data, allow tutors set realistic completion dates for achieving mastery.

•         Feedback on when to, or whether to, readminister 0-9 Digit Writing Test or the Letter Writing Test to determine if the student’s math or writing mastery score needs to be changed.

•         There are 2 parts to learning: skill acquisition and fluency (rate building).   Analysis of daily monitoring will indicate when the optimum skill acquisition phase is reached and the tutor needs to change focus toward rate building.

In addition, Dr. Gundlach provides various types of support:

•         Educational support

–       Identify general concerns the tutor and center need to be aware of when dealing with special needs students.

–       Ability to tell parents that the center has access to an Educational Psychologist to help with learning needs.

–       As guides or reference sheets are developed, they are shared with all centers.  For example: the reference sheet describing Special Needs Students or the modified Checklist for parent of students with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

–       Serve as a resource for questions regarding learning and/or behavioral patterns in a general question-and-answer forum.