How Feedback Impacts Student Learning 150 150 SchoolTutoring.Staff

How Feedback Impacts Student Learning

Giving children positive feedback is essential to their positive growth. Parents and teachers complement their children frequently, and now there is any interesting study that sheds light on how the quality of that feedback is interpreted by children. A study was conducted by the Stanford University psychologist Carol Zweck that involved 400 5th grade students…

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Overcoming Lateness by Proper Planning 150 150 SchoolTutoring.Staff

Overcoming Lateness by Proper Planning

All of us have done it, even knowing how important an event is; a test, a meeting, a date. We wait until the last minute, then wonder why everything doesn’t work as smoothly as we had expected. The otherwise easy and simple experience becomes a stressful, tense event. Planning is the first defense against being…

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Introducing a Book from One of Our Tutors: Illustrated Feline Family Chronicle – The Tales of Astro Cat 150 150 admin

Introducing a Book from One of Our Tutors: Illustrated Feline Family Chronicle – The Tales of Astro Cat

One of our tutors recently published a book and we wanted to help get the word out about it. You can read an excerpt about the book below. Behind every great scientist stands a great cat. This may not be well known, but as the tales of Astro Cat unfold it will be shown to…

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How to Perform Better on Tests Without Touching a Book 150 150 SchoolTutoring.Staff

How to Perform Better on Tests Without Touching a Book

You’ve crammed the entire night. No more numbers or facts can possibly fit into your brain. You think you can now quickly write everything down and receive an excellent mark. Yet when you get to the test your mind is a blur. Questions start to blend together and you start to forget everything you worked so hard…

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Early Expert collaborates with SchoolTutoring Academy! 150 150 admin

Early Expert collaborates with SchoolTutoring Academy!

SchoolTutoring Academy and Early Expert share a vision of providing young learners with opportunities to learn a second language. Learning a second language provides a wealth of benefits for children as research has shown that bilingual children outperform their monolingual peers on tests of analytic ability, concept formation, and cognitive flexibility, and early language learning…

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Games to Boost IQ and Increase Brain Activity 150 150 SchoolTutoring.Staff

Games to Boost IQ and Increase Brain Activity

Why do people go to the gym? We weren’t born with dumbbells in our hands or treadmills under our feet but scientists recommend exercising every day.  The answer is because our daily life does not include the range of physical activity required to keep us fit and healthy. The same reasoning applies to our mental…

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The Importance of Questions 150 150 SchoolTutoring.Staff

The Importance of Questions

One of the most convenient and useful ways to learn is to ask questions. We are born curious, and come into this world with all sorts of questions. We ask and ask in a futile attempt to quench our fathomless thirst for knowledge. A strange thing happens though, whether through upbringing or exhaustion we begin…

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Tips for Applying to Scholarships and Awards 150 150 SchoolTutoring.Staff

Tips for Applying to Scholarships and Awards

Know your Strengths It is important for students to know their own assets. Although a majority of scholarships are based on a student’s grades and academic performance, some scholarships are based mainly on their extracurricular activities. It is crucial for students to make a list of all their extracurricular activities as a reference for applying…

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Mental Math in the Classroom 150 150 SchoolTutoring.Staff

Mental Math in the Classroom

Mental math is the act of performing calculations in one’s head without the assistance of an external device such as a calculator or an abacus. In this article, the calculations and the applications of mental math in different areas of mathematics will be discussed. For Which Types of Calculations is Mental Math Used? The most…

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Staying Sharp Over the Summer 150 150 SchoolTutoring.Staff

Staying Sharp Over the Summer

The summer is almost upon us, and school will soon be out! The time for studying and classes is replaced by vacations and relaxation. In between the tanning, beaches, travel and summer camp, it is easy to let everything students have learned over the past year be put aside to rot away in the dustiest…

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Dealing With Exam Stress 150 150 SchoolTutoring.Staff

Dealing With Exam Stress

Exams are often the most stressful time of a school term for Secondary and College/University students. Many people have trouble dealing with this stress and it can often affect a student’s performance on their exams or even interfere with their every day activities. Stress is an unavoidable part of life, but there are many strategies…

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Encouraging a Reluctant Reader 150 150 SchoolTutoring.Staff

Encouraging a Reluctant Reader

Reading is a skill that is crucial for academic success, however a lot of parents notice that as their child gets older their interest in reading for fun wanes. This can be a concern because becoming an effective reader is mostly developed through practice. Remember that not every child is born a bookworm, so here…

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Effective Teamwork Strategies: Approaches to Conflict Resolution 150 150 SchoolTutoring.Staff

Effective Teamwork Strategies: Approaches to Conflict Resolution

An earlier article this month discussed the effective methods of assigning group roles and structuring a team. However, even though a group might be structured, different conflicts can still arise during the group members’ interaction with one another, perhaps through disagreements between group members about each others’ methods or conclusions. These conflicts not only cause…

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Maximizing Student Performance on Standardized Tests 150 150 SchoolTutoring.Staff

Maximizing Student Performance on Standardized Tests

For over a decade, the public school system in North America has seen an unprecedented amount of pressure placed upon educators to have students performing at higher levels than ever before.  In the United States, the introduction of the No Child Left Behind legislation in 2011 established that each state have some form of standardized…

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Managing Your Morning Schedule 150 150 SchoolTutoring.Staff

Managing Your Morning Schedule

Mornings can be a very hectic time of day for families. Getting your children to school on time can be a challenge especially if they are fighting for the bathroom or finishing up homework at the breakfast table. Teacher’s appreciate having students ready to go in the morning so it is important to make sure…

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Effective Team Strategies: Understanding Group Roles 150 150 SchoolTutoring.Staff

Effective Team Strategies: Understanding Group Roles

Quite often during a student’s educational career, he or she will often encounter various group creative assignments where cooperation between team members is essential to the success of the project. Proceeding without this cooperation would lead to a lack of productivity and a failed project or assignment, should the group fail to rally itself with…

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Motivating Students Without Rewards 150 150 SchoolTutoring.Staff

Motivating Students Without Rewards

One of the most common concerns among parents revolves around student motivation, and how to get students motivated.  The easy answer is offering rewards for students, whether it is money, free time, or other “bribes”.  However, providing these types of incentives could result in students expecting rewards constantly and relying on incentives in order to…

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Hobbies and Activities to Stimulate the Educational Mind 150 150 SchoolTutoring.Staff

Hobbies and Activities to Stimulate the Educational Mind

A common problem amongst children in modern times is the general disinterest in anything and everything educational. Many parents are having a difficult time trying to inspire their students to focus and complete all of their schoolwork because students are simply not seeing the relevancy of their assignments to their interests. However, stimulating the desire…

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Building Great Parent-Teacher Relationships 150 150 SchoolTutoring.Staff

Building Great Parent-Teacher Relationships

Establishing a strong relationship between parents and their child’s teacher is vital in ensuring the academic success of the student.  Here are some tips for creating a positive relationship with your child’s teacher and establishing good communication habits. Parent-Teacher Interviews Parent-teacher interviews can seem insignificant especially if your child is doing well in class, but it is…

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The Importance of the Arts in the Classroom 150 150 admin

The Importance of the Arts in the Classroom

Too often in today’s schools, an emphasis is placed on subjects like Mathematics, Language Arts, and Science.  Although these topics certainly have their place in the curriculum, subjects like visual arts and music have found their way onto the back-burner of education.  However, the importance of the Arts in the classroom have been proven to…

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