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Teaching Skills Not Required!

TURBO-TUTOR® is a set of games designed to be played with a person who can read the "rules" and keep score, usually a parent or teacher, but it could be any adult as teaching skills are not required. Students should play TURBO-TUTOR no more than 30 minutes a day.   There are so many games in TURBO-TUTOR that you won't have time to play them all in a 1/2 hour anyway.

Game & Video

TURBO-TUTOR provides all the tools to make it easy. Each TURBO-TUTOR includes a total of 34 games, starting out with 5 entry level games. To make it even easier, a Helper's Guide and a Helper's Video are included. The helper guide provides an outline with recommendations for a schedule, which games to play and how long each game should take. Also, while there are NO tests with TURBO-TUTOR, we include recommendations on the time frame between moving to advanced levels and when the time is right.

Improved Learning Behavior

It's fun-and it works! If you will spend a few weeks with TURBO-TUTOR, even just playing it on weekdays only, we guarantee you that you will see an amazing difference in your child's grades, classroom manners, the way he gets along with other kids, and the way he behaves at home. You and your child will both want to continue playing TURBO-TUTOR. We have seen it work with so many youngsters, we have no doubt that it will make a wonderful difference in your child's life too.

Learning, Structure, Repetition ,Focus and Emotional Well Being

We humans are not the product of instinct and intuition. We can only do what we have LEARNED to do. The toddler doesn't instinctively know to keep away from the electric outlet or the heating element on the stove. Fortunately, most will heed the wisdom imparted to them by their parents or care givers and not have to experience the shock or the burn. But, even those who are ignorant or unheeding of the wisdom of their elders will learn quickly and not repeat the process.

We know that learning is structured. We must learn our numbers before we can learn addition and learn to add before we can learn to multiply. If you took geometry in high school, you had to first understand some algebra. It is the same with our learners if they have missed an important initial building block, they are not going to fully understand the concepts which must later build upon it.

Repetition is one key to learning. When we are teaching a child the sounds of letters, we repeat those sounds many times over. When we start to teach the child his numbers, we count apples, ducks or whatever until finally he understands the idea that ten of something is different than one of that thing. One learner may require a lot more repetition to grasp a concept than does another. Even that learner will find, as time goes by, that he requires fewer repetitions for materials which build on the solid foundation he has obtained.

Focus, or concentration, is the indispensable element of learning. Concentration is not intuitive -- it is a skill. As a skill, it is something that can be taught and learned. Concentration simply means undivided attention. With TURBO-TUTOR, your learner will learn to concentrate and upon that foundation we will build and strengthen his educational abilities.

Emotional needs are also very important. For many learners who have experienced frustration and failure, we know that their self-esteem is eroded. Add the peer pressures at school and it is not surprising when many of these learners develop anti-social behavior patterns. They look at a new assignment and say to themselves "I probably can't do that, so I won't bother to try." As they work with TURBO-TUTOR®, you will find that this attitude changes to "I am smart. I can do anything and I will try." We developed TURBO-TUTOR to reinforce the positive, enjoyable aspects of your learner's experiences at every stage. Kids with learning differences or NOT dumb. In fact, most are average and above average in IQ. They just learn things differently.

 

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