Today’s teachers have much more pressure
than ever before to teach, to test and to meet students where they’re at in a
classroom of 25 students; and to meet the requests from the parents. Andrea
Logan has the solution for parents and students who find themselves stuck
moving forward on the treadmill of education. The Scholar Room is a private
tutoring service that can help students meet their goals, learn study skills
and meet benchmarks for math, reading and more.
“The Scholar Room is small group
tutoring designed to provide support within the Windham/Raymond and lakes
region communities,” said Logan. She offers one on one tutoring and small group
skills classes for extra practice in a specific area. Some small classes only
last three to five sessions to catch the students up on something like
subtracting with regrouping.
“I work on anything to support
educational goals teachers are working on, but in a different setting,” she
added. “Ultimately I got into it to do consulting and be a support person for
educators in the K-12 curriculum.”
Logan has been in education for 18 years
and has dual master’s degrees in education and special education. She is a middle
school language arts teacher in Portland and is dual certified to teach
kindergarten to eighth grade in special education and regular classrooms. She started
tutoring in 2008 and she is well versed in 504 plans, Individualized Education
Programs (IEP) and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
“I’m a lifelong teacher and lifelong
learner,” she said. She is proving that by finishing her doctorate degree in
transformational leadership.
Tutoring “allows me to teach to each
child and each family on a one on one basis. It’s a highly targeted
intervention and specialized plan. I meet parents where they’re at in a
personalized setting.”
Logan uses her background in special
education and regular education to help all types of students. She will also
work with a mom and dad who might not have the time or the resources to help
their student.
Her specialties are reading and writing,
math, spelling and study skills. She helps those fifth and sixth graders who
struggle with the transition of more homework and classroom work by teaching
organization skills, executive functioning skills and decision making, that can
take them on to success through middle and high school. She will come to the
client’s home to set up a study station and work where the studying takes place
to help the family establish good study habits with the students.
Logan designed her own spelling program
that works in 20 minutes per week. In school it is always said that spelling
will come later, but then later never comes. Logan can help students hurdle
over the spelling gap.
She teaches rote knowledge like
multiplication tables, fact practice and handwriting. She believes in printing
letters and writing. “As the kids age, just because we have technology, it’s
not necessarily the best way to teach all of our children,” she said.
Other issues she helps with are
dyslexia, dysgraphia and orthographic processing, which is seeing and writing
at the same time, where students see and remember letters in the mind’s eye.
Tutoring sessions are offered at her
home on Pasture View Road in Windham or in the client’s home. Small groups
sometimes meet at the Windham Public Library. She works with students from K to
12.
Logan also serves on the board of
directors for the Maine Association for Middle Level Educators and is a
consultant through the New England League of Middle Schools.
She also offers Make and Take Party Events
as fun learning experiences. Watch Facebook for those announcements.
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