Study Skills and Learning Strategies
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Friday, March 25th, 2011After a review of academic records of more than 13,500 undergraduates in the 2003-2004 school year and again in the 2007-2008 school year, Eric Bettinger, a professor at Stanford, and Rachel Baker, a doctoral student, found that college students who receive “executive-style ‘coaching’—are more likely to remain in college and graduate.” http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/coaching-2/?ref=education This finding might [...]
What is the Key to Learning Math? Improve Language Skills!
Friday, March 11th, 2011Led by Susan Goldin-Meadow, a psychology professor at the University of Chicago, a series of studies with profoundly deaf adults points to a connection between language and math development in children. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/02/17/21math.h30.html The subjects in the studies had grown up without language or knowledge of numbers—a rarity in our world today. What the studies seem [...]
Working Out Before Class
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011There’s a delicate balancing act that engaged parents continually work to achieve for their children. Next to good health, those parents want the best education they can get for their children if that means elementary tutoring through college graduation!. Many try to include social and physical activity as well—many times to the detriment of their very packed schedules. However, [...]
Closing the Gaps in Your Childs Math Learning
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011In 1991, an article, “Changes Are Proposed in How Math Is Taught,” published in The New York Times foretold the decline of American students in math if the kinds of changes that schools overseas were implementing were not made in the United States. The proposed changes were supposed to make sure that American students could [...]
How Students Can Relieve Test Anxiety
Friday, January 21st, 2011Parents and teachers have known for a long time that text anxiety plagues many students. Those poor test takers are often very bright, but have difficulty performing on tests. The Associated Press is referenced in a Boston Globe article http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2011/01/14/writing_exercise_said_to_prevent_test_anxiety/?rss_id=Boston.com+–+Education+news , which suggests that a ten-minute writing exercise can improve students’ grades by one letter [...]
Discover How School Tutoring Online Personalizes Your Childs Learning
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011Parents and educators are interested in what effective education will look like for the nation’s children. That vision will impact the way schools will operate, how teachers will teach, how students will learn, and what supplemental services will look like. It appears that school tutoring online is one key supplemental service that addresses several of [...]
Five Ways to Help Your Child Achieve Effective Learning Habits with an Online Tutoring Service
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010Providing your child with a full and thriving education is one the most important facets in raising a healthy and successful individual. It is equally important to instill this culture of education into their everyday thinking. One proven method in accomplishing this involves locating an effective online tutoring service. An online tutor can teach your [...]
Discover Six Unique Benefits of Hiring a Live Online Tutor
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010Hiring a live online tutor used to be perceived as being sort of like psychotherapy – a remedy for a defect, only needed if there was a problem. More and more, though, as the weaknesses of traditional education become more clear and the public school system becomes more financially burdened, tutoring, particularly online tutoring, is [...]
Hire a Private Online Tutor: Eight Steps to Create a Great Learning Environment for Your ADD/ADHD Child
Monday, December 13th, 2010Your child can’t finish homework, he’s always moving, and he gets distracted easily. Are these behaviors recognizable in your home? Students with Attention Deficit Disorder are easily distracted and they also can be a distraction to others. Below are some ways to identify if your child has ADD, some methods to counteract these behaviors and [...]
The Secret to Improving Grades and Self Esteem: How Online Tutors Can Truly Make a Difference
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010Do you remember going to school? The friends, fun, recess… oh yeah, and then there were those annoying classes that filled up time between socializing with friends. OK, so this might not be how everyone remembers their school career, but for me classes and homework were something that I barely put up with in between [...]
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