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Private, In-Home Tutoring in Oshawa, Ontario
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Oshawa, Ontario Tutoring Programs
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Oshawa District and Curriculum
SchoolTutoring Academy’s tutoring programs for Oshawa students start with a ACADEMIC ASSESSMENT with an Academic Director. Call us now for a personalized quote! Our services include regular one-on-one tutoring, academic mentorship, bi-weekly progress reports, learning profiles and parental conference calls.
Oshawa District Curriculum Used in Our In-Home Tutoring Programs
The curriculum used in Durham District School Board and Catholic School Board is based on the Ontario Curriculum which is comprehensive and provides a clear scope and sequence for learning. Each subject is organized according to its major topics and then students are introduced each year to increasingly complex skills and knowledge in each area. Students also are taught to find areas where their learning connects so they can understand who learning in one subject benefits other subject-area learning as well. Critical thinking skills are incorporated into the expectations of each subject, and students learn how to do scientific and logical reasoning as well as analyze texts from all subjects.
We currently cover the following Oshawa-area school districts: Durham District School Board and Durham District Catholic School Board.
Educating Our Parents: Understanding the Oshawa District Curriculum
The framework for learning that is used in Oshawa's schools is the Ontario Curriculum. This curriculum has been developed at the provincial level to provide all students with standards of learning that will prepare them for the 21st century. The curriculum provides the general skills and basic knowledge inherent to each academic subject and then describes the concepts and thinking skills that students will gain through their course work. It also introduces students to Outdoor Education and Environmental Studies, and has a number of language learning programs.
Local teachers will develop their own lesson plans using the resources of the school and their own teaching library. The Ontario Curriculum is a standards-based framework to help organize the delivery of knowledge so that learning is cohesive. Standardized assessments are aligned to the teaching standards in the Ontario Curriculum. Students are expected to demonstrate mastery in literacy and communication in order to graduate. There are also community service requirements for all students to meet.
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Keeping Informed: Recent Oshawa Educational News
- Captivate Media Festival - The Captivate Media Festival is a program that showcases media projects by District students. The focus of the festival is to promote the use of technology in learning. Students have a real chance to display original thinking and to create something new by submitting a project.
- Published Students - Students in the Durham District have the opportunity to become published authors. The Pen Strokes! website and companion text publishes the submissions of talented student authors from children in grades 1-12.
- Outdoor Education - The Durham District has three outdoor environmental education facilities for students to experience some hands-on, out of classroom learning. Over 15,000 students a year are benefited by the programming offered at the environmental centres and the chances that teachers have to integrate environmental science and literacy into their classroom teaching.
Oshawa Tutors Can Help Your Student Succeed
SchoolTutoring Academy works with young learners and students, all the way up through high school. We offer Pre-K and Kindergarten Tutoring as well as Elementary School Tutoring to build a strong learning foundation early on. We also offer comprehensive tutoring across all school subjects.
Chalk Talk: Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development
The Zone of Proximal Development theory suggests that students who work with students and teachers who have more learning than they do will succeed in engaging in more learning themselves. There are many ways to accomplish this from paired work to appropriate instructional methods like scaffolding. Examples of scaffolding include providing visual aids such as graphic organizers and charts that can help organize students’ thinking, asking structured questions that allow teachers to gauge students’ prior knowledge and check for understanding during a lesson, or giving lessons on vocabulary before reading a text. An example that illustrates ZPD is that students should read books at their instructional level (within their ZPD)—not too difficult or easy—meaning that they can read the book independently with about 90 to 95 percent accuracy.
