Learning Through the Arts Helps DC Tutoring Help Students

Washington DC tutors programs have found that in-home visits work best because children are comfortable in their own environment and will open up to a tutor and be more receptive to new ideas if they are in familiar surroundings.

Many of the tutors that are employed through an in-home tutoring program participate in continuing education courses within their subject or subjects they tend to be experts in such as social studies, science, math or English. The tutors are lifelong lovers of learning and they pass this enthusiasm on to their students so that even those who refuse to learn will soon notice they are learning. Many students simply are not receiving the information they need to learn correctly.  The student may be a visual learner, but their teacher in school only lectures, never writing anything on the board or showing slides. And although somewhat rare in younger children, a student could be the opposite and be turned off by too much visual stimulation and therefore be more of an auditory learner and better adaptable to a lecture style of learning.

No matter what age the student is, there is now a greater push for learning through the arts in this country and many students are benefiting from this innovative program. Several research studies have shown that children learn better through music and art and will retain information better if it’s set to music.  In addition to music, DC tutoring personnel may bring cards, board games or perhaps a video game along to help a child with a different learning style; this tactic works best on those children who claim not to want to learn or may have been diagnosed with a learning disability or ADHD in which it is difficult to convince them that learning is fun.  

Besides games, a tutor might bring colored paper, colored pencils, paints and other art supplies to help demonstrate a math problem or help the student create a collage of photographs from a magazine to represent something from history. Tutors want students to know that learning is fun, exciting and all around them and it never stops.