Understanding the Way Educational Consulting

For students who struggle or who are reaching for greater heights in their academic accomplishments, a strong support team is vital. The Murphy-Cates Learning Center understands this and works to provide the education and instruction that parents need to assist their children in their studies. We provide educational consulting to parents, teachers, and other education professionals to help them understand the results of the diagnostic cognitive and psychological evaluations their children have completed so they can better support their children in their progress. We also help parents and teachers construct very specific, solution-driven study programs, curricula, and individualized educational plans to directly target their children’s individual academic needs.

The Murphy-Cates Learning Center and Academy provides educational and consultative services to public, private, home-school students, parents, and teachers through individual and group consulting and seminars. The Murphy-Cates Learning Center and Academy conducts educational and professional development seminars and in-service training seminars for parents, teachers, day care providers, and other professionals in the field of education. The primary seminar, Teaching Children Language Arts, is a three- to six-day seminar covering the seven principles of effective language arts instruction and specific methodologies for using the unique Sail Away Program. Sail Away Language Arts is a unique program for teaching language acquisition that is simple, easily learned, and enjoyable for students and teachers alike.

At a local level, the Murphy-Cates Learning Center and Academy conducts a monthly continuing education seminar, ConEd, which expands information presented in the Sail Away workshops, hosts guest speakers who are experts in the field of education, and offers timely teaching tips to parents, teachers, and other attendees. The meetings of the East Tennessee ConEd group are videotaped and distributed nationwide to other ConEd groups as well as individuals with whom UTW consults.