Organization and Study Skills
The Path to Strategic Learning
WHY TUTOR ORGANIZATION AND STUDY SKILLS?
At
Tutor Doctor of East Bay we believe that all students can excel
in school. Too often, however, we present
students with significant amounts of educational
content without ever really teaching them "how
to learn". This is the foundation for
why we teach study and organizational skills as a
part of our tutoring program. Upon completion
of the curriculum, students will be able to establish
their priorities and create a strategy to achieve
their goals as efficiently as possible. They
will spend less time studying and still see their
grades improve.
The basis of our study skills and organization content is a curriculum called SOAR.
The topics covered include:
- Time and task-management
- Goal-setting
- Paper organization
- Homework/project planning
- Reading skills
- Organizing at home & school
- Note-taking strategies
- Test-taking strategies
- Communication with teachers
- Writing strategies
- And much more...
How we teach the content:
Although we offer Organization and Study Skills as a separate course, we find that students are more successful when we weave the SOAR curriculum into tutoring sessions. This provides students with "hands on" experience in implementing the strategies that we teach. Students and their parents receive the added bonus of learning both the content we are tutoring but also skills that will positively affect all their classes.
In the long run our goal is to create successful independent learners!





