From the monthly archives: May 2010
Optimal learning begins with identifying the seven learning styles that tutors can use to plan their lessons according to their students’ needs. Learning experts and educational psychologists identified seven unique styles of learning that each person prefers. When a tutor identifies the learning style of each tutee, he or she [...]
Teachers teach a class, but tutors facilitate learning. As learning facilitators, tutors are more effective than teachers. Teachers usually teach up to 30 children in one class. The group setting most effective for learning should only have up to 15 students in one class. A tutoring session, on one hand, [...]
A sudden drop in the grades of your child indicates a disturbance in learning, but it does not necessarily mean your child needs tutoring. Disturbances, such as a death in the family, a long period of illness or a sudden change in the child’s home life, can affect the child’s [...]
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Parents often have second thoughts when hiring tutors. They hesitate because they hope the child can still improve without the need for a tutor. The think children can overcome that phase eventually.
Some parents mistake tutors as expensive ways to deal with [...]
As the school year approaches the end, visions or running through the front door of everyone’s school on the last day brings to mind visions of hot summer days lounging in the sun without a care in the world – and definitely not more work.
As educators, we see the summer a little differently [...]
For most students, summer break usually means more fun, less schoolwork. Some students take this time to get away and have fun with friends and family members. However, not all students think this way.
Many students make good use of their free time during summer by tutoring younger children or [...]
Tutoring generally implies a one-on-one interaction between the student (called the tutee) and the teacher (referred to as a tutor). Unlike classroom teaching, tutoring focuses on individualization of learning, which many educators claim as the best way to learn.
Experts say optimal learning happens when teachers handle less than 15 [...]
At first, the Internet was just a novelty, something to look over and experiment with, but since then, its use has pervaded every aspect our modern lives, specifically in education. The Internet plays a vital role in education. Its power to bring together people for learning in what we call online
Summer learning loss is more common than you think. All children lose a portion of academic knowledge and skills during summer. Students from higher income families have more opportunities to continue learning through fun and educational summer camps. However, students who belong to low income groups lack the resources to join these summer activities or [...]
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Summer takes almost three months of time dedicated to leisure and relaxation. However, for the less hedonistic, summer presents an opportunity to earn extra cash. Students can work in summer jobs bussing tables, manning cashiers or watching over people at the beach.A good [...]
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Every student looks forward to spending summer somewhere cool and fun. Going to classes is not one of them. However, what if learning can be cool and fun as well as beneficial for the student? Summer tutoring is [...]
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Peer tutoring is not new to the world of education. Having students help their fellow students learn the lessons was a serendipitous innovation developed by Mr Andrew Bell of England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Andrew Bell primarily wanted [...]
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