Agency Discourse Observation

September 13, 2010
To: Fellow Students
From: Angelique Lopez, UTEP Student
RE: Sylvan Learning Center


Throughout the city of El Paso there are children with the knowledge to understand and comprehend many topics and subjects in school. Some of which later on make it their career and lifestyle. But who is to say that all children are like that? How do we as teachers deal with children with learning disabilities that prevent them from learning or students that just cannot help but not understand what teachers are trying to teach them. Students need to be helped! Get back their confidence when they are struggling. They need to know that when there is a problem with understanding something in school, they can go to anyone for help, and that is what the Sylvan Learning Center is here for.

The Sylvan Learning Center has a quick way of identifying the student’s specific needs with a skills assessment, and they get right to work! With the skills assessment the student take, they are able to consider a student’s learning style and their academic strengths. Taking all that into consideration Sylvan Learning Center offers any Personalized Tutoring Programs to carefully concentrate on the student’s needs. What is great about the Learning Center is that it offers tutoring in more than one subject, any online tutoring, homework help, and what also is a plus is they offer SAT and ACT preparations. Sylvan Learning Center is not only for young children, they offer any type of help for all ages up to high school. So there are excuses for a student in high school to say they are too old to go.

Just knowing that there are centers out there that offer help to students is amazing! It is something that should be taken full advantage of! Sylvan Learning Center believes that “all children have the potential to succeed in school.” They work to “pinpoint the exact skills your child needs to learn.” The learning center has been around has been around since 1979 and has been the leader in the education industry. Sylvan strives to help students “reach their fullest potential.”