More and more high school students are taking college courses online, and my Santa Barbara chemistry tutors are happy to help. Of course, my Santa Barbara math and physics tutors are also on hand for online classes. Many kids need a tutor to help with pacing and organization – as well as content – when they head to cyberspace for learning. Self-paced online classes can be a blessing or a curse. If a student procrastinates (never!) it can be quite a marathon to complete a course in order to meet a deadline for their school. Those five-hour tutoring sessions are a serious brain twister!
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Motivated Learning
Friday, November 20th, 2009Learning demands motivation! Some kids are motivated by As and teacher praise, but the best students are kids who view learning as a joy in itself. My math tutors and science tutors from UC Santa Barbara agree: kids who want to learn do better! My physics tutor had a Carpinteria student who went from an F to a B just because he got excited about physics. He began completing all his assignments, studying hard for tests, taking time to quiz himself and then seek out answers where he had knowledge gaps. Clearly, he had the ability to learn physics all along. What he lacked was motivation. Cheers to the best tutors: they are always great motivators!
5 Minds for the Future
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Over coffee with one of my San Luis Obispo math and physics tutors, got talking about Howard Gardner’s 5 Minds for the Future. The ever-wise Mr. Gardner says we’ll want Disciplined Minds, Synthesizing Minds, Creating Minds, Respectful Minds and Ethical Minds in the future. When a global talent-pool is click away, it pays to be an expert. Leaders will provide value arising from deep training in their field (math, science, history, literature) or profession (law, medicine, education). Schools can cultivate these minds deliberately in today’s kids. A worthy idea!
Contagious Enthusiasm.
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Every one of my tutors loves his (or her) field. My math tutors daydream of calculus at the dentist. My chemistry tutors doodle organic compounds in the margins of their grocery lists. But my physics tutors practically self-combust in their passionate love of physics. Physics: the study of matter and energy interacting. It explains gravity, speed, motion, power, waves, momentum, fluids, particles. Some teenagers get lost in a dark fog of physics. For my Santa Barbara physics tutors, nothing is better than illuminating physics to reveal its beauty. I get a lot of praise for my physics tutors. Their contagious enthusiasm comes up again and again. To nudge a kid toward curiosity is to open his brain for learning physics!