Tutoring Science High School Students
Especially if you live in a metropolitan area, you’re familiar with specialty high schools, wherein the focus centers on one particular area. Some high schools focus on science, while others...
View ArticleAll Ages Should Play to Learn
Should all ages play to learn? In other words, should education be fun, or should the focus remain on strict study? While there is always a time and place for serious study, standardized testing, and...
View ArticleShould Standardized Testing Be Optional?
Standardized testing—it’s controversial to say the least. Students, teachers, parents, online tutors, administrators, and the entire academic community have an opinion of standardized testing. (We’d...
View ArticleTutoring in the Summer before College
Tutoring in the summer before college means that online tutors serve in an important role. Online tutors will help springboard incoming freshman into college life with academic tools, study skills,...
View ArticleSummer School Tutoring
Summer school tutoring is a unique challenge for both students and online tutors. That challenge hits a boiling point when exhaustion from the previous school year meets with lowered expectations for a...
View ArticleHow to Turn Passive Students into Active Learners
Photo credit: Monrovia Public Library Student engagement. That’s a buzzword that’s been around since the days of the one-room schoolhouse. Even our education has reached the online portal, student...
View ArticleThe 10 Commandments of Tutoring
Photo credit: John Taylor Each tutor comes with his or her own strengths and weaknesses, but we’d like to think there are a few tenets that keep all of our online educators grouped under one umbrella...
View ArticleLearning Through Board Games
Students, and maybe even a few tutors, may scoff at the idea that learning is fun…but well, it is. (Hey, at least we didn’t say “school is cool.”) The bottom line is that, when students have fun in...
View Article5 Apps to Improve Your Grades
Attention: smartphone owners. (Which is just about everyone.) Now you can study on your gadgets using these downloadable applications. The Maths Alarm Clock When it comes to quality study time, you...
View ArticleHow to Deal with Current Events in the Classroom
Photo Credit: Jon S Educators have a responsibility beyond the material in their selected textbooks—and the same rule applies to online tutors. The bottom line is, when the TV news hurls a tumult of...
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