Becoming a math tutor requires more talent, dedication, concentration and many such things. Many students struggle to understand the concepts in math. Hence they need personal tutors to help them to excel in their math homework. Continue reading →

How do you know if you are taking the right steps to becoming a productive and effective tutor? Your skills may be honed to the level of Ph.D, MA, or BA certification but just because you have the knowledge doesn’t always mean that you can communicate it to someone. Continue reading →

What is a learning disability?
Learning Disability is not a specific term; it is a category containing many specificdisabilities, all of which cause learning to be difficult. The following definition of “learning disability” is used for legislative, financial, and educational purposes only. It is NOT a definition of dyslexia, which is one specific learning disability. The term ‘learning disability’ means a disorder in one or more of the basic processes involved in understanding spoken or written language. It may show up as a problem in listening, thinking, speaking, reading, writing, or spelling or in a person’s ability to do math, despite at least average intelligence. Continue reading →

This is a review of the book “Tutor Quest: Finding Effective Education For Children & Adults” by Edward E. Gordon

I think that Gordan has done a great service to parents and students by providing this remarkably trusty handbook. With the tools provided in Tutor Quest, especially the tutoring-quality rating scale and consumer’s guide to tutoring services students and parents have a foundation to protect them from inadequate educational services. Continue reading →

A court ruling in Oakland, California has added another legal mine in the murky landscape of right for Californians to homeschool their children. According to this ruling “parent do not have a constitutional right” to home-school their children. This ruling has touched off anger and bewilderment throughout America’s home-schooling community. Continue reading →

One of the most frequently asked questions from parents is how to plan for a successful school year. Here we suggest a few things parents and students can do to get the upper hand on a new school year before it takes on a life of its own. Continue reading →

Why do we Need Tutors?
During pre-modern times a formal education was reserved for religious leaders and the very wealthy, including royalty, who enjoyed a one-on-one relationship with their teachers. Labor skills, however, were passed down in the age-old fashion of apprenticeships whereby a student or very small group of students learned from the master by watching and working side by side with him for many, many years. Girls learned domestic skills as they grew up working in the home by imitating their mothers. In none of these scenarios was the student-teacher ratio as great as it is today, with K-12 classes averaging 30 or more students per instructor. The individual attention that so carefully shaped the skills of past generations has been replaced by overcrowded classrooms full of underdeveloped talent. Continue reading →

With such drastic advances in the past thirty years technology has become the crutch for our everyday lives. Technology assists us in communication, transportation, and even education. The Internet has made accessing information much easier than it was just twenty years ago. Continue reading →