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Navigating the supplementary education sector
Michael Sandler, the founder of education-research and consulting firm, Eduventures, recently announced that the tutoring industry is now a $5 billion business, or roughly 10 times the size it was just 10 years ago. According to SmartMoney, “Tutoring firms no longer offer just subject-specific help in, say, Latin or chemistry; increasingly they’re marketing a dizzying [...]
How to Study Smarter
What to Study: Write down on a calendar all test dates and project deadlines. Using those timelines, set up a study schedule for yourself. Divide up the amount of material you need to study equally over the number of days you have before your test, leaving the last day or two for overall review of [...]
What’s on the Test?
Professors may help more than you realize when preparing for tests. Here are some really smart and insightful tips from Newsweek’s “Professors’ Guide,” written by Professors Lynn Jacobs and Jeremy Hyman: Material covered on your midterm or final should not surprise you. The Professors suggest paying attention to comments like, “This would make a great [...]
Shaking Things Up
Graduate schools of education have been using the same drills, curricula, and ideas for years. Enter the Relay School of Education in New York City. Stemming from Teacher U, a “groundbreaking program that has operated in partnership with Hunter College” and informed by information gained from the work of three charter school management networks (Uncommon [...]
Stay Smart This Summer
The Launch Education Blog posted some tips for “Staying Smart This Summer.” We think some of their suggestions are good ways to review your courses as well. Here are some important and fun ways to keep your mind active: Books: Keep some of your textbooks and notes lying around. They may be safer in a [...]
Mastery of Spring Material
During the busy school year, it’s easy to let things slide. Students may have a course they fall a little behind on or a subject that needs some extra attention. Even by the time the semester is over, students may not necessarily feel like they have mastery over the material. Summer can be your time [...]
It’s About the Mindset
Pencils, Notebooks, Planners, and This: The most important thing you bring to school this year can’t be found in the back-to-school aisle. Rather, a very influential factor in determining success or failure is your mindset. Carol Dweck, the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, asserts in her book Mindset: The New [...]
Learn Something New This Summer
Tutoring is not just to help keep students up to speed in their courses or to help those who don’t want to fall behind. Having a tutor can enable you to discover new ideas and subjects on your own, even without a class or professor. Summer is the perfect time to learn new things that [...]
Don’t Let Your Brain Take A Vacation
Summer is here. While your schedule may be more lax, your mind shouldn’t be. University of Missouri-Columbia psychology professor, Dr. Harris Cooper, gives a good reason for students to keep last year’s notebooks open this summer. His study shows that students lose one to three months worth of learning over summer break. The study also found that “the negative [...]
Take Control When Being Tutored
Educational software by itself is no solution for struggling students. Research studies show that an educational advantage is gained only when the learner can direct the online resources with which they are engaging. One size fits all software just won’t work. At Newcastle Tutors, our students have complete ownership over their tutoring session. Our interactive [...]
