As a tutor and the owner of a tutoring company, and a previous teacher, there are several points that I feel could be very helpful for families to know about tutoring. As a parent, when you get to the point that you are ready to get a tutor – you have reached a milestone. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’ve made it this far, then you are asking yourself, “Alright, there better be some really great resources here.” And voila, there are. Google Scholar – This is my favorite source to go to. The number one reason why is that Google Scholar does the searching for you. It doesn’t ever list Wikipedia as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I can’t use yellow highlighters. All of the other colors are just line, but it’s the yellow ones that work against me. Please allow me to explain. Starting in sixth grade I struggled in school; by the time I was in high school I was bottoming out as a C student. So one of my […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Really, what about the Olympics can’t be made into a lesson? There’s history, athletics, mathematics, geography, measurements, distance, arts, public speaking, coloring/drawing, graphs, reports, research, languages, foreign cultures, etc. For me, as an educator, the biggest frustration I had with graduate school was that my professors wanted me to bring more to my lessons and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As if we needed more reason to encourage our kids to get healthy. Parade Magazine http://www.parade.com/news/intelligence-report/archive/100110-should-students-be-forced-to-get-fit.html I think that our kids should be forced to be fit. When I was in school, not too many eons ago, we had to do jumping jacks, sit ups, run a mile, and get dirty too. Now, those things […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Do you know what time of year it is??? Just open an newspaper advert or watch TV commericals and it’s clear. No, not Halloween, Hannukah, Christmas, or Yom Kippur — it’s Back to School time! (Although if you just pay attention to commercials you would have thought that school started back in July. Yes, it’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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