Marcello Excelled in Math Thanks to His Bilingual Tutor
By Guest Blogger | August 15, 2023
Guest Blog Post by Patrick Reardon, Path2Math Tutor
Your Gifts Enabled a Child to Gain Confidence in the Classroom
You enabled Marcello to work with a bilingual math tutor this year. He has gained confidence in English, is much more social with the other children, and improved significantly in math.
Last fall, I returned home to the Bay Area for a year’s sabbatical and was eager to work with children in the community. As a bilingual speaker, I asked for students with Spanish as their primary language. I quickly took an interest in a second-grader named Marcello*.
When we first met, Marcello displayed the same apprehension that many students in South America first had when meeting me. This quickly changed when I switched to speaking Spanish after we ran into barriers in both math and English.
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Through one-on-one reading and math tutoring, and family support, you will nurture an eager child in a circle of care so they may succeed in school.
“Marcello has gained more verbal confidence in English and is much more social with the other children. That is sure to carry into his participation in the classroom.”
Marcello was very quiet when we started working together last September, so it has been very rewarding moving from exchanges primarily in Spanish to now mostly English. He started the year at just a first-grade level. When the school year closed, Marcello had advanced one and a half grade levels, just shy of grade level.
“Marcello has gained more verbal confidence in English and is much more social with the other children. That is sure to carry into his participation in the classroom.”
Just as importantly, Marcello has gained more verbal confidence in English and is much more social with the other children. That is sure to carry into his participation in the classroom.
I am proud to see the progress he has made, not just in mathematics but also in language learning and socialization. It is gratifying to know that Marcello will benefit and become bilingual himself.
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