Private Tutoring Math

Private Tutoring MathWhen you are considering private tutoring in math, how do you know what the pay scale will be and what the math price per hour for each of your students will be? Here are some things to consider.Private tutoring Math is an excellent choice for any grade levels from elementary to high school. If you decide to use a private tutor, it is good to consider the type of grade levels of your students typically encounter. The math price per hour for each grade level is based on the number of hours per week that the teacher has access to.The grade levels from six through twelve will pay more. In order to maintain an effective relationship with each student and his or her progress, it is necessary to have a detailed understanding of the student's individual needs. The math price per hour for each grade level is higher than the grade levels outside of this range. The math price per hour for each grade level is based on the average grade level for the entire grade level.The m ath price per hour for each grade level is also based on the average grade level for each of the previous three grade levels. In order to maintain an effective relationship with each student and his or her progress, it is necessary to have a detailed understanding of the student's individual needs. The math price per hour for each grade level is higher than the grade levels outside of this range.The math price per hour for each grade levels is higher than the grade levels outside of this range. The math price per hour for each grade level is based on the average grade level for the entire grade level.The math price per hour for each grade levels is higher than the grade levels outside of this range. The math price per hour for each grade level is based on the average grade level for the entire grade level.How many grade levels will your math tutor focus on? What types of grade levels are the math price per hour for each grade level? What are the math price per hour for each grade le vel?

Good Question Why do we say He may need and not He may needs

Good Question Why do we say He may need and not He may needs My students questions have always been a great source of learning for me as an English teacher. Yesterday, for instance, a student asked me a question that made me pause and say out loud, thats a good question. Usually Im ready with an answer, but I had to really think about this one.His question?It started with this sentence:It has been suggested that, in the case of human brains, smaller may also mean more efficient.Why, he asked, was it mean and not means? Shouldnt there be an s there? He pointed out that the very next paragraph started with the words, This meansAs I said, it took me a moment to see why This may means sounded wrong to me. It became more clear after we looked at other example sentences.Look at the following sentences:This means we are in trouble. This may mean we we are in trouble.The difference here is in the word may. Its a modal verb. Modal verbs are a type of helping verb that add mood or feeling to a sentence (much like the subjunctive tense in languages like Spanish). The verb that comes after a modal verb should always be in its base form, meaning no to before the verb and no s or ed at the end. Take a look at the examples below:This man may need a doctor.This man needs a doctor.Other modal verbs include: would, could, should, might, will and can. As you can see in the examples below, the same rule applies:This man might need a doctor.This man will need a doctor. To see a more drastic difference, look at what happens when we add a modal verb to the following sentences:Cats are nice. The cat is nice.Cats can be nice. The cat can be nice.Cats may be nice. The cat may be nice.Questions? Feel free to leave them in comments below. Interested in an English class? Click here to register for a free first class. Nutthawan Piphuannok Thank you so much LOIEnglish Your welcome!

Falling In Love With Tango A Lesson in English Phrasal Verbs

Falling In Love With Tango A Lesson in English Phrasal Verbs by Muireann PrendergastIn English, phrasal verbs are idiomatic expressions or commonly used two-word phrases following the rules:Verb + prepositionOrVerb + adverb Some phrasal verbs are transitive which means they require a direct object.The thief broke into my house.I have to look after my brother.The remaining phrasal verbs are intransitive which means they require no direct object.Can you please calm down.She always loved to dress up.In order to learn about phrasal verbs effectively, it is a good idea to start by understanding when and how they are used, rather than just learning a list of them by heart.Here is a short piece on Tango to demonstrate the use of phrasal verbs. See if you can spot which ones are transitive and which ones are not. It takes at least two words to tango with English phrasal verbs.At 4 o’clock on a Sunday afternoon tourists walk through an antique market in downtown Buenos Aires. They chatter amongst themselves but, above this, loud music sounds from a nearby public square. A large group of tourists obscures the view except for flashes of movement as a couple dances the Tango.It is easy to be seduced by the spectacle. He (1)puts on a black silk shirt and trousers, with suspenders and a hat. His partner (2) slips on a red dress with asymmetrical hemline, fringes and black fishnet tights. The heels of her shoes are the highest imaginable. Onlookers elbow each other to capture on film the glamour and of two people responding to each other in perfect synchronicity.The Tango began in Argentina at the start of the 20th century when immigrants from Europe gathered together in Buenos Aires to (3)look for a new and better life. However, many failed and, unable to (4)live off the land on the Argentine plains, they (5)lived in poverty on the streets of Buenos Aires. The Tango was a child born of this poverty and developed as these immigrants (6)turned to the bars and brothels of the Argentine capital for solace in their loneliness. Since Bue nos Aires was a city with a higher male than female population the Tango, when it (7)started out, was danced between men to win over ladies. It is said that men had three dances to prove themselves before the lady in question made her choice, forcing the unlucky suitors to (8)stand aside.Argentinas upper classes (9)turned away from Tango due to its humble origins. However, they were forced to change their attitude when fashionable societies in Paris and New York (10)fell in love with the Tango after it was brought to Europe and The United States by Argentine emigrants. Its international popularity really (11) took off with the emergence of legendary Tango-singer Carlos Gardel, who sold out venues in Europe and even starred in U.S. made Paramount movies.Today, as we see on the streets of Buenos Aires, the appeal of the Tango has endured to the present day. Tourists (12)turn up in droves to watch and film dancing couples every day of the week. Indeed, Tango has (13)taken on a new, mod ern fanbase thanks to the emergence of electronic, beat-based tango music from bands like France-based, Gotan Project and Argentine/Uruguayan combo, Bajofondo Tango Club. Such is the popularity of the Tango that you don’t even have to (14) go to Buenos Aires to see it. You can enjoy it from your own living room thanks to films like Scent of A Woman, Evita and Strictly Ballroom.How did you do?See the answers below:TransitiveTransitiveTransitiveTransitiveTransitiveTransitiveIntransitiveIntransitiveTransitiveTransitiveIntransitiveIntransitiveTransitiveTransitiveGot questions? Email us or ask them in comments below.Sign up for our English classes. Inscribéte para nuestros cursos de inglés.If you found this lesson helpful, feel free to share it on Facebook and Twitter.

Back to school safety on the roads - ALOHA Mind Math

Back to school safety on the roads 2 Likes Sheriff Allen Riley of Madison County, NY has some important advice for drivers on the road now that school has started. He advices adults on the road to watch out for young children at all times, and pay attention to school buses that are also back on the road now. Please read this articlefor more of his advice. As parents of school-going children, we should definitely be well aware of how our kids and their friends would behave on the way to school, and we should be extra careful while driving on the roads. There is also something more we can do for our kids to learn good road safety and be safer on the roads: Road Safety for KidsImage Courtesy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/3957311986/sizes/z/in/photostream/ Set an example: If our kids see us breaking the rules and using the cellphone at times when we shouldn’t be such as when driving the car, they might tend to follow the same practice while crossing the road which puts them in danger from approaching vehicles. We can start off by setting the right example, and also explaining to them about why they should not be doing it. Road rules: Make sure that young children who are walking on their own to school are aware of the relevant road rules, so that they do not jump out into traffic at the wrong places. It is better to prepare our kids to be careful than trusting completely to the attention of drivers on the roads. Use the right lane: For kids who skateboard or cycle to school, explain to them how much safer it is to stick to the cycling lanes wherever available. In this way you can breathe a little easier that they are out of the way of larger vehicles and following a safe route to school. On the bus safety: Though school bus drivers a re usually extra careful about safety of children on the bus, it is useful for the kids to be taught simple rules such as sitting down before the bus starts moving, and using the handrails while moving around in the bus. With these simple tips, we can try to better ensure the safety of our kids on the roads. Check us out on Facebook for more such insights and tips: www.facebook.com/aloha.usa

Debate of the week American Idol

Debate of the week American Idol American universities have always held an appeal for young people across the world. Most British teenagers could name the Ivy League universities and the qualities that their students possess: intellectual, high-achieving and exceptionally talented. It's perhaps no surprise that more and more of the UK's teenagers are choosing to attend US universities. In many cases, they give the brightest and the best a passport to a first-class education and a first-class life. According to a recent article in The Times, however, it's the lure of meeting a rich man that is encouraging female A-level students to abandon their UCAS forms in favour of SAT tests (the American university entrance examinations) and transatlantic flights. At First Tutors, we have certainly noticed this emerging trend in young people choosing US universities and a concurrent rise in the demand for SAT tutoring. But is that really just because female students are fed up of British men and want to bag themselves an American alpha male? To believe that is to believe a facile argument that does young people a great disservice. If you are bright enough to attend St Paul's (the UK's leading girls' school which, according to The Times' article, sent 12 pupils off to American universities last year) you would not be stupid enough to incur the great time and expense involved in doing so just on the off-chance that you might meet and marry a future President. We feel that young people are attracted to US universities for other, better, reasons. Society is more globalised, and young people see their opportunities all over the world. Some US universities, especially Yale and Harvard, have unparalleled resources and offer an education and experience that is second to none. Of course, the UK has first-class universities too, but now that students have to pay their tuition fees in this country, some undergraduates feel that if they are to pay money, they may as well benefit from a unique and international experience in return. These days, higher education is a consumers' market. With the amount of scholarships on offer across the US, it actually might save some UK students money to study in the States. Let's support our students in their choice of university, wherever it is, applauding their real reasons and goals, rather than patronising them with sexist nonsense that belongs in the 1950s.

What Every Parent Should Know About Hiring a Tutor

What Every Parent Should Know About Hiring a Tutor Why do we Need Tutors? During pre-modern times a formal education was reserved for religious leaders and the very wealthy, including royalty, who enjoyed a one-on-one relationship with their teachers. Labor skills, however, were passed down in the age-old fashion of apprenticeships whereby a student or very small group of students learned from the master by watching and working side by side with him for many, many years. Girls learned domestic skills as they grew up working in the home by imitating their mothers. In none of these scenarios was the student-teacher ratio as great as it is today, with K-12 classes averaging 30 or more students per instructor. The individual attention that so carefully shaped the skills of past generations has been replaced by overcrowded classrooms full of underdeveloped talent. The earliest American schools were modeled after English institutions. However, unlike the privately funded schools of England, American schools set the first precedence for publicly-funded education. But “publicly-funded” often equates to “under-funded” and, even from the start, American schools lacked the essential necessities for formal learning: books, writing utensils, and appropriately-trained teachers, to name a few. So how have parents been able to prevent their children from falling between the cracks? Well, in a word, tutors. Tutors range from peers who are also students, to professional teachers trained in specific subjects and to accommodate specific learning styles. There are also learning centers that offer a franchised form of tutoring, like Sylvan and Kaplan. So how does a parent decide who to hire? Here are some basic guidelines. How to Find a Tutor Like doctors and dentists, people traditionally rely on referrals to find a good tutor. Parents often turn to other parents, or to teachers for tutor recommendations. However, what if you cannot find someone who knows a good tutor? What if a recommended tutor cannot accommodate your budget or schedule? What if your child’s learning needs are different from that of your friend’s child? You could flip open the yellow pages and start cold calling to set up interviews with various tutors and learning centers; but this is tedious and may still result in a poor match. A better option, thanks to the computer age, may be to hop online where you can now find various listings for tutors on the internet. Multiple agencies post tutor profiles, some even screen their tutors to ensure quality. One particularly useful site is www.tutorz.com, which compiles tutor profiles from multiple listing sites so that users can shop for a tutor from one location rather than searching all over the internet. In fact, Tutorz boasts the largest database of tutors in the world, with over 30,000 listings. Even better, starting in Fall of 2011, Tutorz will facilitate tutor ratings so that clients can post reviews of tutors, similar to how online travel sites like TripAdvisor and Orbitz enable users to rate travel accommodations. So parents will be able to use Tutorz to search for highly rated tutors, in addition to preferences like cost, location, and subject. What to Look for in a Tutor Select a tutor with a teaching style, personality, and schedule that specifically meets your child’s needs. Although it would be nice if teachers could provide the one-on-one help that students need, this is not always an ideal option. First, if the student did not understand the material the fist time, the way the teacher explained it in class, maybe he or she will benefit from the different perspective a tutor can offer. Second, based on individual personalities and preferences, kids do not always feel comfortable working so closely with every teacher. Teachers that are engaging and approachable to some students may be intimidating or irritating to others. Third, many teachers do not have enough time to provide students with the amount of one-on-one instruction they truly need. Secondary teachers are responsible for planning, preparing, and delivering curriculum to more than 200 students. Grading assignments, preparing for classes, adjunct duties like coaching or policing the hal ls, staff development and parent meetings leave teachers with little or no time for “Extras” like phone calls home and tutoring. Children with learning disabilities can easily fall between the cracks at school. If you suspect your child has a learning disability like dyslexia, a condition in which individuals see letters and numbers in reverse order, find a tutor or learning center that has the ability to test for such. Private tutors are generally less expensive than tutoring centers and tailor their instruction specifically to their students, while tutoring centers often use their own curriculum which may or may not work for your child. Consider a tutoring center if your child is fairly self-sufficient and not easily distracted, learns better in a group setting, or has a specific learning disability that the center specializes in. How to Make the Most of Your Child’s Time with the Tutor Create a tutoring plan with your child and tutor that defines the goals your child is trying to achieve, and how the tutor will help him achieve them. Start by identifying your child’s weaknesses, especially where he is below grade level. Do not forget to consider your child’s study skills as a potential area of weakness. Next, outline a plan for how the tutor and your child will use their time together to work on these areas of weakness, and how your child will continue to do so outside of the tutoring sessions as well. For instance, you might specify that the tutor spends 75% of her time reviewing mathematics concepts, one chapter each week, and 25% of her time addressing reading comprehension, which can be augmented by assigning your child books to read between sessions. Also discuss how you, as parents, can assist in reinforcing concepts reviewed in tutoring. For example, if your child is struggling with basic math, then opportunities like adding up groceries at the store or helping to measure ingredients during meal preparation should not be missed. Home improvement projects are a great way to reinforce algebra concepts. Helping calculate and pay the monthly bills will reinforce math and economics skills; and there are ample opportunities everywhere that exemplify science, from the physics of foo tball and chemistry of cooking, to the biology behind hand-washing. Finally, make sure that tutoring supplements and does not supplant learning at school. That is, make sure the tutor is reinforcing concepts that have already been covered in class and is not getting ahead of the teacher. Remediation should be top priority. Plus your child will be bored in class and lose interest if he already knows the material. Facilitate communication between your child’s teachers and tutor by introducing them or exchanging their phone numbers with one another. Provide copies of each teacher’s class syllabus to the tutor. Not only will this help the tutor know what material to cover, it will also help her know how your child’s grade is calculated in each class so she can help your child learn to organize and prioritize his work around these requirements. If teachers do not provide your child with a syllabus for each class, request one in writing. They are required by law in most states. It is important to remember that a tutor should not be employed to help your child with homework. The purpose of homework is for students to practice concepts they have already learned. An appropriate role for the tutor is to re-teach any concepts needed to understand the homework using alternative practice questions. Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late Even those of us who took calculus once upon a time would probably find it difficult to recall enough to be of any assistance to our kids today. While some parents are capable of tutoring their own children, many lack the time, ability, or desire to do so. It is important for parents to employ a tutor as soon as possible if their child is beginning to struggle in school, in order to head off frustration, impaired self esteem, and compounding academic deficiencies. The Federal government is so confident that tutoring is an effective way to improve student achievement that it’s No Child Left Behind act mandates that low performing schools in year two of school improvement must provide tutors free of charge to their low income students. However, the tutors must be approved by the state. You can find out which schools are required to provide free tutors for students, which tutors are approved for each state, and how to apply to receive services for your child by visiting www.greatschools.net.

Myspace is Still Kickin

Myspace is Still Kickin' Screenshot of the redesigned Myspace profile from the video preview The redesigned profiles, which can be seen in the recently released preview video, are a stark contrast from the white and blue theme of the Myspace long past. The sleek, modern make-over looks clean cut and innovative. Users will be able to create photo albums with corresponding music mixes, which can easily be shared with friends. The layout is reminiscent of Pinterest and Tumblr, with photos being the focal point of the design. It’s clear that the new Myspace is not trying to compete with popular sites like Facebook and Twitter. Users will be able to share content like photos and playlists from their Myspace profiles to other networks as well. The new owners, one of which includes Justin Timberlake, are hoping that artists will utilize this site to share music and connect with their fan on a whole new level. So, with this idea in mind, if artists motivate their fans to join, the new Myspace may just have a chance of becoming successful. Myspace has tried redesigns before and failed to regain their once huge following. However, this time around things are quite different. Essentially an entirely new website has been created. Only time will tell if it successfully wins the hearts of tech savvy music lovers. Like the new homepage says, “whether you’re a musician, photographer, filmmaker, designer or just a dedicated fan, we’d love for you to be a part of our bran new community.” Check out the preview video to see for yourself and request an invite if you’re interested.