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Special Tutoring Skills
Children with special tutoring requirements are often the ones who suffer at school, not from a want of intelligence but from a lack of ability to respond in the same way to a teaching style which is directed at the majority, as indeed it must be.
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Are your kids smarter than you?
Ladue News today (12/04/2012) has an article which addresses the issue of when and why to call a tutor. The writer, Russell Hyken, is a psychologist and parent, who has himself experienced the feeling of helping with homework of which he wasn’t entirely sure.
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Online tutoring - not just second choice
Cleveland.com reports a real rise in the number of students taking advantage of a new system on online academic support. While this is for University students at the moment, there is no reason why this kind of thing cannot happen here in the UK with school kids. And indeed it does on an informal level, where teachers often answer students’ questions posted on homework forums etc.
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Student tutors
Hartford local paper, The Courant, reports a story where students are engaging in peer-tutoring schemes. Enabling a student to be able to look through and ‘mark’ their own work is a fantastic way of teaching a student how to help themselves.
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Fewer places, more competition
According to the BBC Education website (29/03/2012), most universities in England are going to have fewer places to offer students this year, as the funding changes in higher education are implemented.
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Who needs a tutor?
Parents usually tend to look for tutoring options after parents evenings or an alarming school report and, something I’ve noticed particularly in the last month, during a panicky run up to the exam. However, tutoring benefits all students, even those who are not struggling in school.
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Stall in Literacy Progress says Ofsted
Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief schools inspector at Ofsted, has warned that England is being overtaken by other nations because the progress on literacy has stalled.
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Why is Computer Science teaching going backwards?
In The Guardian Education supplement on Saturday 31st March 2012, John Naughton asks why schools are teaching students how to use Microsoft Word instead of how to code, claiming that in doing so the children are being taught about things past rather than the future.
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Tutoring Programme ‘The Best Kept Secret in Cambridge’
A voluntary tutoring programme in Cambridge Massachusetts has been running for over 50 years.
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