LITERACY FOR LIFE: LITERACY & MATHS TUITION CANBERRA - FIND US IN MACQUARIE AND KAMBAH

Specialised Literacy and Numeracy Teaching

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Accelerating learning

  • Literacy learning for life
  • Numeracy learning for understanding and confidence

We use an integrated and sequential teaching program designed to accelerate the literacy and numeracy skills of learners. It has been used throughout Australia in a variety of teaching and research contexts, predominantly as an intervention with mainstream primary and secondary students and remote community Indigenous students, but also with students for whom English is a second language.

Scaffolding Literacy and Numeracy

Our teaching method, Scaffolding Literacy, originated at the University of Canberra and has been used with continuous success for over 30 years. We use the same principles that underpin Scaffolding Literacy to deliver highly supportive numeracy tuition.

The key elements of our teaching:

  • An integrated sequence for teaching:
    • reading, spelling, grammar, and writing
    • foundational, theoretical, real-life, problem-solving maths
  • A highly supportive approach that enables all students to succeed:
    • crucial in a pedagogy that aims to engage learners with tasks and texts that are age-appropriate
  • Teaching strategies that are highly explicit in showing students:
    • what and how an author writes
    • why language choices are made
    • the functions of numbers and how they are related to each other and the real world
    • the logic behind maths formulas and processes
    • how to use strategies that are useful for students’ independent use
  • The building of shared deep knowledge and understandings between the teacher and students
  • The development of learners who are task-focused:
    • Attending to the purpose and requirements of the learning task, and taking meaningful learning from the activity
  • A pedagogy that demands a clear purpose for any teaching task

Support for families

SUPPORT

Two convenient, welcoming offices, one in Macquarie and one in Kambah.

Friendly, spacious amenities for supportive and constructive teaching, and interactions between staff, parents, and students.

Parent Seminars in literacy and maths are offered to encourage and enable parents to be effective partners in their child’s learning. This has family and community benefits.

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stress

Our tutors are specifically trained to support students who experience anxiety, stress and resistance in their learning, and to tailor tuition to their individual needs.

• we teach exclusively one-to-one, rather than in groups. The individual learner’s needs are the sole focus of their sessions

• our pedagogy can be well adapted to the individual needs of each student

• we maintain our small business roots. You can always expect to feel welcomed and at home when you walk through our doors

Children and adults who experience difficulties in literacy and numeracy often have poor self-esteem and poor self-concepts, not just about literacy, maths, or school, but about themselves and particularly about themselves as learners. Despite assistance, both medical and educational, they have failed to reach acceptable standards of literacy and numeracy and present as being totally confused and stressed to the extent that they often appear unable to learn, having developed elaborate avoidance strategies.

In acknowledgement of this, our teaching takes into account the stress of learners at the very core of the pedagogy, with the teaching sequence and strategies designed to enable learners’ stress-free and confident engagement, while accelerating learning.

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