Posts Tagged ‘Newcastle Tutors’
College Students: How to Score a Perfect Recommendation
As you consider the next stage in your career, you may find yourself applying to a program that requires recommendations from a professor at your college. Whether for grad school or a prestigious fellowship, recommendations can make the difference between a thick envelope and a night of tears. But how do you get a great [...]
How to use your college vacation wisely
Congratulations, collegian! After a semester of hard work, you’ve earned a well-deserved rest. Enjoy the holidays, spend time with family and old friends, and don’t drink too much eggnog. Many of our students have been asking whether there is anything they can do over the break to make sure they get off to a strong [...]
How to Rock Your Finals
No doubt this is a tough time of the semester, with final exams often counting for 50% or more of a course grade. Whether your finals are five days or two weeks away, don’t despair. It’s never too late to have that aha! moment on a tough concept or to cut through confusion you may [...]
Go to Stanford…High?
Yes, you read that right! Stanford University has opened an online high school, which will graduate a class of 30 seniors at the end of this year. They are among the 275,000 students around the country enrolled in full-time online high schools. Who are the Stanford Online High School students? According to Susan Patrick, [...]
Learning how to learn
In its 2011 version, the National Survey of Student Engagement found that the vast majority of students don’t implement new study strategies during their time in college. Whether you are a high school, college, or even graduate student, you should always be working to improve your study skills. Here are a few learning strategies the [...]
Success Leads to Adoption
By the 2004-2005 school year, The National Center for Education Statistics discovered that 37 percent of school districts offered technology-supported distance education courses. Enrollment in this combination of two-way videos and online tools was estimated to be 506,950, a remarkable 60% increase over just two years before. As the impressive results rolled in, online education [...]
Online Tutors Boldly Go Where Others Can’t
Thanks to the worldwide reach of the internet, online college tutoring has yet another advantage: Students in rural places or international locales can now access concierge tutoring services with just the click of a button. Working with an elite tutor can boost students’ achievement no matter where they live. While old-fashioned tutoring is limited to local [...]
The Edge to Get Ahead
Have you been looking for a supplement for your learning that will really boost your grades? The U.S . Department of Education recently released the results of a meta-analysis of studies on the efficacy of different teaching methods. The study combed through over one-thousand independently conducted studies and analyzed those which were found to fit [...]
Help Your Tutor Help You
Have you ever been in a heated debate with another student about whether or not a particular teacher was effective in their teaching methods? For some reason you absorb almost nothing your respective teacher says, having to review your notes numerous times before finally understanding the material, while the other student ‘just gets it.’ It [...]
Not Just a Number with Online College Tutoring
The other day we met a student attending college in New England whose school offers tutoring services for some of the most in-demand courses. Unfortunately for him, students at his school also need to wait like Canadian medical patients (i.e. for a long time) to receive any personal help. If a student doesn’t sign up [...]
