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Making Summer Tutoring Work

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

In the last post we spoke about beating the summer ‘Learning loss’ by including some education activities as a part of your day. Studies show that regular tutoring over the summer is an effective way to ensure that you have a great school year ahead.

In fact studying in a relaxed, non-pressured environment works best for students. However, one concern which a lot of you have is balancing work and play – since there are so many activities you would like to catch up on during the summer.

An online tutoring program like TutorVista’s which is entirely ’student driven’ takes care of that for you. You decide when you study by scheduling a tutoring session on a time and subject of your choice. If you want to work on some Math problems late evening, you can schedule a session just then. If you would like to catch up with your reading during the mornings, you can schedule a session and keep the rest of your day free. The flexibility of our Summer Tutoring Program ensures that you learn when you are ready to do so.

The other advantage of our Summer Program is that it is entirely one-on-one. So you can pace your lessons the way you want to without the pressure of keeping up with the class. Besides that, our sessions are fun, interactive, and effective. So no matter which grade you are in, we have a course just right for you and what’s more, it is completely customized to meet your requirements.

Planning to leave on a vacation and wondering what to do about your tutoring sessions?

A convenient aspect of our tutoring is that if you are going on a vacation you can choose to ‘pause’ your tutoring account. That is, you can indicate that you will not be using the tutoring for a certain time period and would like to come back and resume your sessions. So you actually keep ahead in your studies without missing out on any summer fun.

Online tutoring programs like TutorVista’s aren’t just about working out a few problems and logging off. Features like regular homework help, and exam prep enable a student to get all the help he/she needs. There is usually also an extensive library of e–learning material like Math and English question banks, simulations and animations available to help the student ace the subject – Not just during the summer but throughout the year too.


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Advantage Math and Science

Monday, May 11th, 2009

President Obama’s new education policy highlighted a very significant point – American students are lagging behind students in the same age group in the rest of the world in Math and Science. He proposed giving an added impetus to these subjects since problem solving skills and mathematical ability can be key differentiators in today’s world.

What makes Math and Science so tough for a lot of students?

Very often we hear students saying - ‘It just seems so tough.’ Or, ‘I just don’t understand how this problem needs to be solved.’ So what makes the study of Math and Science so different? To do well in both these subjects, a student needs a complete understanding of the ‘why’ and ‘what’ behind each problem or phenomena. Since Math and Science are logic and concept driven, it is important to get the right guidance from the formative years itself.

However, in a regular classroom setting, a teacher has to concentrate on many students and as a result he/she cannot answer every question. Also, a lot of times, students maybe hesitant to ask and this leads to a lack of conceptual knowledge which only makes it tougher to understand these subjects with each passing year.

So what can be done?

Regular, one-on-one tutoring is the best way to understand Math and Science and also work on building concepts. A good tutoring program like TutorVista’s will not rush your child into tutoring. We first take an assessment test and figure out what are the specific areas your child needs help in. Post that, we tailor sessions to make your child comfortable in the subject. In fact our tutors are very involved in the academic progress of your child. Besides regular tutoring, they will work with your child on assignments and homework and are ready to assist them if they need help before an important test.

We have seen that students are extremely comfortable in asking questions in an online setting and a lot of them show remarkable improvement in Math and Science the first year of tutoring itself.

In fact online tutoring programs like TutorVista’s aren’t just about working out a few problems in Math and Science and logging off. We offer an extensive library of e–learning material like Math and Science question banks, simulations and animations to help the students ace the subject.

 

Your child gets personalized attention and decides how fast the lesson should progresses based on his/her grasping power.

This school year give your child the right guidance in Math and Science and open up a world of possibilities.

If you want to know more just take a demo session with us for free !

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Changing the way America learns

Monday, May 4th, 2009

America’s President Barack Obama is all set to bring about major changes in the education system. Throughout his campaign, Obama had said that he plans to take a new, objective look at education issues. Now, the House has passed an $819 billion economic stimulus package that includes $150 billion for education, more than doubling the budget for the Department of Education.

Obama outlined some general areas in which he wants to bring about major changes. The idea being to ensure that truly ‘No child gets left behind’ and the quality of education is maintained.

  • An impetus to early childhood education– The comprehensive ‘Zero to Five’ plan will provide critical support to young children and their parents. Research shows that early learning programs give children an edge in Reading and Math. The stimulus bill gives the Head Start program additional funds and an additional 110,000 students access to the program, based on need.
  • Getting world-class in Math and Science – Realizing that Math, Science and problem solving skills are imperative to get ahead, an added emphasis in being given to these areas. As Obama pointed out, by twelfth grade, most American students are scoring lower on Math and Science tests than most other kids in the world and in a connected world like ours, good education is going to be ‘the big’ differentiators.
  • Ensuring that no child truly gets left behind - Obama wants ‘No child Left behind’ to live up to its name by actually working to ensure that every child gets educated with an excellent teacher. It is also imperative that schools get the funding they need, but there will be performance metrics tied to the money.
  • Performance based compensation for teachers – More accountability in the classroom and teachers who are go the extra mile get rewarded for it. This also aims at moving non-preforming teachers out of the classroom.
  • More Charter schools - Obama called on states to lift caps on the number of charter schools, but also to shut down those that aren’t working. Obama also proposed the idea of a longer school calendar, in a bid to prepare U.S students for the 21st Century economy.
  • Lets see more graduates - America is seeing an ‘a sharp rise’ in drop out rates which needs to be urgently addressed. As Obama rightly said that a college degree has never been more important than it is no. He proposed increases in Pell grants and also announced a $2.5 billion program to help college students “persist and graduate”.

Obama has called for ‘A truly historic commitment to education’ with new resources and new reforms. Looks like America is set for a new and exciting journey in education.

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