TES Founder
Ron Seagal
With decades of experience and results as a teacher and tutor in a wide variety of settings, Ron is a versatile educator with deep, practical knowledge and skills.
Delphian School and Seven Arrows Elementary School
For eight years Ron was a faculty member of the Delphian School of Oregon, where he taught in the classroom as well as in one-on-one settings. He supervised a Model United Nations program, ran a fitness class, and taught English as a Second Language. Ron also provided professional development to teachers who came from other schools, including a research fellow in one of China’s city education bureaus who reported that after applying the training his students “…did the best among all the graduating classes in the city in the National College Entrance Examination.”
In California, Ron taught at Seven Arrows Elementary School in the Pacific Palisades for ten years, and he helped to oversee strong growth in math achievement there through its Math Department.
Applied Scholastics
As an educator, Ron has had extensive training and experience in the application of Applied Scholastics pedagogical principles and technologies that get to the core of (a) truly connecting to and engaging students; (b) helping students to achieve genuine, meaningful understanding and ability that counts—not rote memorization; and (c) guiding students into heightened critical thinking skills, the ability to research and study independently with success, and the ability to successfully apply what they learn. Applied Scholastics, Inc. is an international, non-profit, public benefit organization established in 1972 to help others utilize the breakthrough learning/teaching technologies developed by educator and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard. These principles and techniques are simple, powerful, and available to anyone. They get results.
Tutoring
Ron has similarly achieved outstanding results as a tutor. With students ranging from kindergarten to adult, he’s worked with at-risk, highly remedial students; he’s worked with homeschool students; he’s worked with public and private school students; he’s accelerated students and helped them to achieve outstanding results on standardized tests; and he’s organized and run free community outreach tutoring programs. Ron has also participated in a variety of curriculum projects, including the development of innovative lessons that harness the potential of the hand-held microscope to engage students in scientific inquiry.
Educational Principles
Ron understands that education is dynamic. Every student is unique. Different students (and their parents) have differing needs, differing goals, differing strengths and weaknesses, and differing preferences for educational approaches. No one has a monopoly on education, and in fact every individual in the world must wear the hat of teacher at one time or another. What makes an educational approach right is not the degree to which it trumpets high-flown pronouncements of authoritative complexity; it is the degree to which it achieves honest results that empower individuals to achieve their own positive goals.
