Award-Winning Test Prep & Academic Tutoring in Dania Beach, FL

"The student is still doing quite well on his geometry homework, so we focused primarily on his other subjects. First we reviewed the book he read for his English class and I helped him flesh out his understanding using some online resources. I read him through some analyses of his book and provided him with definitions and the breakdown of the meaning of various sentence structures that were a little ambiguous to his ears; I also discussed the possibility of disagreeing with summaries or analyses in legitimate ways, and the worthiness of reflecting on that. We then moved into his biology. He understood that fairly well, and only forgot a couple terms; when he forgot, I showed him how to breakdown the etymology of the word and thus make it easier to remember. We then talked about his geography a bit, and I gave him tips on remembering geography better. First, I explained the sentences and words metaphor for reasoning from incomplete definitions. Basically, we can't understand or remember sentences without a firm grasp on the meaning of the words in the sentence; by extension, remembering sentences about locations is harder with an undeveloped understanding of those locations. Thus, I encouraged him to look up the places on Wikipedia for all of the places he was studying, and to try to distinguish each from every other by culture or terrain or politics or whatever he could find, BEFORE trying to learn where exactly they fit on a map. If he sticks to that practice, his recall and reading skill will both be dramatically improved. I concluded the session by encouraging him to find me some kind of syllabus that would allow me to know what he'll be learning next in geometry, so that we can simply teach him stuff ahead of his class instead of waiting for the material to get complicated out of nowhere. I also encouraged him to check out the series that I sent him in order to keep his math brain awake when his school isn't challenging him too much."

"We went over a final assignment, took a "field trip," talked about starting middle school, and played a word game! It was lovely, and I really, really loved working with her! "

"We went over reading material and sample math problems to discover the student's strengths and weakness. He is a delightful young man and he seemed very excited to engage in the session with me. I look forward to seeing him in our next session."

"Tonight was all about logarithms. We spent the first half of the time talking about what they are, how they relate to exponential functions, what their graphs look like, and what their properties are. Once we had these ideas somewhat solidified, we took a look at some homework problems the student had been working on. It was a fair amount to cover in one night, but it should give her a solid starting point. "

"Today the student was assigned a review packet in preparation for an upcoming test. Tomorrow we will begin studying for the test. "

"This lesson we covered cellular respiration, photosynthesis, lactic acid fermentation, and alcohol formation. The student initially had some questions about cellular respiration vs. photosynthesis which are similar processes, but we clarified which aspects were reactants and which were products. She is going to continue practicing writing the equations in preparation for her test tomorrow."

"The student worked on study skills and test taking strategies for her history midterm. She reviewed key concepts and outlined/highlighted main concepts in her notes. For math, we reviewed how to find slope, point slope formula, and the slope intercept form. She continues to demonstrate mastery in the algebraic concepts."

"We went over DNA replication, mitosis, meiosis and some related questions. The student was engaged in the session and asking questions. He has a test tomorrow and will let me know how he does. Overall he is excited to learn about the subjects and also seems to understand the topics. "

"Today the student wanted to discuss biology. He wanted to get ahead in his class. We found his textbook online, looked up the next chapter, and started to discuss the key concepts each section was trying to get across. We talked about Darwin, evolution, natural selection, genetic variation, and genetic shifts. We also talked about his most recent math test. He said that he thinks he did very well on it and that our session helped him out a lot! We also talked about organizational skills. He told me that he currently uses a calendar. I suggested that he start using a color code with this calendar so he can see what is due earliest. We will be meeting this Thursday to work on math and review any biology concepts he doesn't understand. "

"Tonight we continued introducing calculus concepts with limits at infinity. During the process, we reviewed concepts including identifying asymptotes and understanding end behavior to help evaluate limits at infinity. We then worked through examples with right and left end behavior models to evaluate and identify any horizontal asymptotes. Some of the concepts I worked on explaining involved solving the limits at infinity and understanding concepts if have 1/infinity or 1/0 and what that represents for a limit. To help, we worked through the right and left hand behavior problems, but then focused the latter part of the session working solely on evaluating limits approaching infinity to practice solving different cases and understanding how to approach these types of problems."