At Apple Plus we recognize that every child learns at their own pace. Our success depends on a working partnership between the parents, the students, the school system and us. It is only through this partnership can we guarantee to provide your child with the fundamental components of the curriculum.

This is accomplished by evaluating each student′s abilities and providing a customized tutoring experience to meet their individual needs. This individualized approach to learning builds the exact skills they require to succeed.

We, at Apple Plus excel at providing customized academic tutoring, and have a proven track record full of success stories.

Evaluation   — although this is not necessary, it is highly recommended. Evaluating your child allows us to identify their strengths and weaknesses, which allows us to customize individualized goals and objectives. This process can be augmented/enriched by parent/student meetings as well as reports cards or notes from teachers.

Environment   — each student works at an individual workstation on their work at their pace. We do not do group tutoring or learning. Time spent with the tutor is one on one; hence, questions are asked and answered directly by the tutor. Explanations/responses are given in a timely effective manner. Tutors are shared between a maximum of three students.

Tutors   — our tutors consist of Ontario Certified teachers, graduate students or individuals with a strong university emphasis in the required topics. All have been assessed to ensure they have the aptitude as well as personality required for teaching. We also do a background police check on all our tutors. As an example we would hire someone like a certified engineer who works here part-time as they enjoy helping the students.

Resources   — we use industry standard time test and true resources which are presented to the students via our tutors. These resources are supplemented with our own copy written materials.

Homework   — enables practice and fosters independence. Since any homework assigned by Apple Plus is always checked by the tutors, when homework is completed successfully, we can be confident the student has mastered the skill. If errors are found on the other hand it acts as a trigger to review the missing concepts.

Monitoring Progress   — Feedback is ongoing from tutors and progress reports are given after each session. This enables students to better understand requirement and ways to improve not only the skill at hand but also the general process of learning itself. Parents and students are given access to these reports via our  ′Parent Connections′ web portal.

Building confidence & independence   — inherent in our approach is to build confidence and independence in our students. By timesharing tutors, students have the opportunity to correct their own work and hence become more aware of their errors. This fosters independence and makes the student less reliant on the tutor. We ask students to come prepared for the lessons by reviewing specific material before hand. When a tutor ascertains that a student has not prepared properly for a session they may ask them to do some review during the session. This encourages general learning skills and once again helps build independence so the student is better prepared for their academic future