 The Aristotle Tutorial - A Performance Based, Elite Academic Mentorship for College Bounders K - 12 . View of the Tutorial. Though several parties engage this mentorship to address academic underachievement, many students with well established honor roll histories have realized considerable gains in the sustained focus essential to the optimal reading comprehension function for labor intensive academic enterprise (including very precise paraphrasing, transcription, and critique of demanding undergraduate level text in a range of disciplines, including the hard sciences). Admission into The Aristotle Tutorial is predicated chiefly upon a candidate's ability to demonstrate consignment to rigor, willingness to trespass the thresholds of perceived academic capabilities, and increasing progress towards learning skills autonomy. See Admissions (link) Grade Affirmation of Academic Enterprise and Terms of Compensation: No
compensation for the mentorship training is paid until
formal classroom evaluations indicate substantial
academic achievement (any "D" and "C"
grades must become "Bs" with subsequent scores
in the "A" range). No tutorial will continue to
engage a student who does not demonstrate increasing
initiative toward autonomous application of evolving
skills or who expresses dissatisfaction with academic
skills progress. The Aristotle Tutorial is a performance based mentorship. Its success is largely predetermined in a series of trial one-to-one sessions providing candidates a view to the excitement, challenge, and intellectual adventure of the full curriculum immersion. In turn, these trial tutorials provide students the opportunity to demonstrate the drive and initiative essential to the evolution of learning autonomy. Chief
Objective: To cultivate the learning autonomy and
enterprise of top performing students excelling in elite
colleges and universities. Orientation The specialist
imparts an excitement for academic inquiry and discovery
while providing a sustained, carefully orchestrated, and
increasingly individualized illustration of high yield
learning skills approaches. As steward of the student's
academic skills evolution, the specialist closely
monitors the quality and depth of the student's text
penetration and analysis in all humanities, social
sciences, and natural sciences through co-active,
real-time immersion (hence, the two to four hour
tutorial). In effect, teacher and student simultaneously
immerse in text and lecture analysis for all subjects to
manifest a school within a school. All variables
governing academic achievement and learning skills
progress are systematically identified and subject to
protocols enabling the student to methodically execute
outcomes. Student and specialist conceive and execute
study approaches for each course pro-actively (often in
advance of regular classroom presentation). The student
gains a day to day view of her objectives, progress, and
remaining challenges in the process of realizing
predictable academic gains. She is able to
"test-out" well in advance of the formal
classroom exam, the consistent demonstration of this
being a primary indicator of course mastery and tutorial
completion. All parties, including teachers and parents
are retained in on-going conference and remain informed
of the student's academic agenda and scholastic progress.
Primary
Mentorship Objective: Gradual mentor/student role
reversal. Core Academic Goals Regular demonstration of behaviors will indicate the following gains:
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Discernible Patterns Concluding the Aristotle Tutorial
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Heightened
ability for acute, sustained focus yielding exacting
recitation of increasingly sophisticated text.