Types of Education Support Services

The Academy education support service include various forms of assistance, such as tutoring, mentoring, counseling, coaching, guidance, feedback, assessment, evaluation, accreditation, curriculum development, professional development, and more. AcIRSTD targets different levels of education, such as preschool, primary, secondary, tertiary, or lifelong learning. More so, the Academy addresses different needs, challenges, and goals of learners, educators, and educational systems.

Some of the common types of the Academy support services include:

1. Tutoring:

AcIRSTD provides quality tutoring to youth, undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate students, early-career researchers, research administrators and government entities as well as adults through partnerships with workforce programmes. We specialize in working with both youth and professionals offering customized learning paths where each student’s unique needs and goals and pair them with an ideal tutor with personalized attention that maximizes learning outcomes.

The Academy tutoring is a form of individualized instruction that helps learners improve their academic performance, skills, or knowledge in a specific subject or area. It takes take place in person or online, in one-on-one or small group settings, and can be formal or informal. AcIRSTD helps help learners who are struggling, gifted, or have special needs, by providing them with personalized attention, feedback, guidance, and support; helps them to prepare for exams, assignments, or projects, by reviewing the material, clarifying doubts, or practicing skills.

2. Mentoring:

A mentoring program is a structured initiative designed to pair our experienced educationists, scientists, technologists, innovators, researchers with less experienced ones to provide guidance, support and knowledge transfer. Typically, the AcIRSTD formal mentoring programmes are structured around defined objectives, timelines, matching criteria and measurement methodologies to ensure effectiveness.

AcIRSTD mentoring helps learners who are at risk, disadvantaged, or have aspirations, by providing them with role models, advice, encouragement, and opportunities. Mentoring can also help learners explore their interests, goals, or careers, by exposing them to new perspectives, experiences, or networks.

Our successful mentoring programmes include the following:
We invest time in designing clear objectives, timelines and methodologies, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and participant needs.

The Academy pays attention to the compatibility of mentor-mentee pairs, considering factors such as skills, experience, personality, and goals to foster effective relationships.

We recognize the importance of diverse perspectives and experiences, actively seeking to create inclusive environments where all participants feel valued and supported.

We secure support from organizational leaders, who provide resources, visibility, and endorsement, reinforcing the program’s legitimacy and fostering a culture of learning and development.

We establish mechanisms to track the progress of mentor-mentee relationships, gather feedback, and measure the impact of mentoring on participants’ development and organizational goals, enabling continuous improvement and accountability.

3. Counseling:

AcIRSTD counselling is a professional support that helps learners cope with their emotional, psychological, or behavioural issues that may affect their education and research aspirations. Our counselling takes place in person or online, in one-on-one or group settings, and can be formal or informal. The Academy helps learners who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, or other mental health problems, by providing them with a safe space, listening, empathy, and strategies. AcIRSTD counselling also help learners deal with personal, family, or social problems, such as bullying, abuse, divorce, or peer pressure, by providing them with guidance, support, and referrals.

In addition, AcIRSTD counselling provides assistance and guidance to students and young researchers in making the right choices in their studies, be it their educational plans, career aspirations, choice of stream and specialization.

An AcIRSTD’s focus is on supporting students and early career researchers with social emotional challenges, which may include a wide variety of direct services for students and young researchers to reduce barriers to learning and thriving within a collaborative push-in, pull-out model in the education environment. An AcIRSTD also provides indirect services to students, young researchers and families and actively consults with the building’s Leadership Team