October 27, 2008 by Editor
TutorMatch (http://www.tutormatch.com), the leading online tutor referral service, announced today that 10% of all proceeds for the month of October will be donated to the Chicago-based Volunteer Tutoring organization, the Tutor Mentor Connection. The Tutor Mentor Connection (http://www.tutormentorconnection.org/) describes their mission as dedicated to improving the availability and quality of comprehensive, long-term, volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs [...]
October 20, 2008 by Aish
Math Anxiety is a term coined by psychologists and refers to the fear of math that gets instilled in students at a very young age. This holds true for students that are public, private or homeschooled. For most of these students, this fear only increases with time and age and they dread math as they [...]
October 16, 2008 by Felicity
Be careful to take the right courses during the undergraduate years. Of course this is easier said than done, as it is a rare undergraduate who really knows their future career plans when they arrive in college. From the get-go you need to be focusing on getting good grades. The odd, less than stellar performance [...]
October 13, 2008 by Diane Palumbo
Many astronomy students are faced with the reality of the depth of study once they enter the second chapter of the textbook. Students take the class thinking that it will be all constellations and stars, but don’t realise the true scientific theories presented in higher levels of the course. For this reason they decide to [...]
October 10, 2008 by Diane Palumbo
Choosing a tutor for a second language, be it German, French or Spanish, is not a decision that should be taken lightly. Whether the reason for learning the language is a trip abroad or simply personal growth, proper enunciation, vocabulary and meaning are crucial in the development of the language. For this reason it is [...]
October 8, 2008 by Hilary
As a 6th grade math teacher in a private school, I often discovered that my classes were a general blend of different public and private schools that either taught traditional Math or adopted newer and alternative forms of math instruction. I found that the students with the alternative instruction came to 6th grade with a [...]
October 6, 2008 by Diane Palumbo
Many high school students have a difficult experience with their first classic literature assignment. The archaic prose of works by Dickens, Melville and Shakespeare can prove difficult to understand and seem like a whole other language. So how do we break the barriers between literature and learning? There are a variety of ways that we [...]
October 5, 2008 by Editor
Here’s a great video I found focusing on an adult literacy tutor in Rensselaer County, New York. This volunteer tutor discusses why he started volunteering his tutoring services for adults in need of literacy education. He’s truly a nice guy who saw a need and decided to donate his time and skill to help out illiterate [...]
October 3, 2008 by Diane Palumbo
Learning English as a second language can be difficult to learn in a formal setting. Informal settings release the pressure from the learning environment and allow the student to feel at ease in the environment, therefore being able to absorb more. English as a second language (ESL) tutoring sessions can range from basic exchange of [...]
September 22, 2008 by Diane Palumbo
This past weekend I came across a great site called the Tutor/Mentor Connection. They describe their mission as “dedicated to improving the availability and quality of comprehensive, long-term, volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs in high-poverty areas of the Chicago region and other large US cities through an ongoing, dynamic exchange of ideas.” It seems to me it’s [...]
