I recently read an opinion piece in the New York Times that explained the benefits of the upcoming change to the SATs: the College Board has redesigned the SAT to minimize time pressure. Until now, the SAT has covered so much material that most students do not complete the test. But because of the recent… Continue reading “It’s time we stop confusing quick with smart.”
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What I Learned from Tutoring Online for 18 Months
It’s late August of 2021, and I am now working with all of my students in person, some masked, some vaccinated. I’m almost ready to cancel my expensive subscription to Zoom, but I probably won’t, because I am open to working with some students online who live too far away for in-person tutoring. Nevertheless, I’m… Continue reading What I Learned from Tutoring Online for 18 Months
Tutoring by Video Conference
Although I much prefer meeting with students in person, we just can’t do that right now with the order to shelter in place. We all have to stay home and avoid contact with a lot of other people. So I’m offering remote tutoring by video conference, mostly using Zoom, a popular–and free–tool available to anybody… Continue reading Tutoring by Video Conference
The Power of Ten
Schoolchildren in the lower grades spend a lot of time learning that our number system is a place value system based on ten and powers of ten. A daily activity in the second-grade classroom in which I student taught was counting ten small “ones blocks” and replacing them with one larger ten block. Students eventually… Continue reading The Power of Ten
These Are a Few of My Favorite
Words. You thought I was going to say “things,” right? as in the song from “The Sound of Music”? No, I’m talking about favorite words. I tell the students that I tutor to make friends with words and to keep track of words they like. I have decided to take my own advice. Recently I… Continue reading These Are a Few of My Favorite
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