Tutor Blogs

To even become a teacher, you must know how to teach and to do this a teacher must past all courses in their studies as well as certain tests. The PPST is sort of like a pre test for the Praxis. It helps gauge your level of ability in certain areas that you must possess to become a teacher. Once this is done, then you must continue your studies until it is time for the PRAXIS II (content area) and PLT (Principles of Learning and Teaching). My certification was going to be in Social Studies so I took the Social Studies PRAXIS. The study information I found online was telling me to pretty...

Today I had a biology session with a student in honors biology and we spent our time covering the blood flow through the heart and the different anatomical structures of the heart.

We did an exercise imagining we were a single red blood cell (RBC) floating around in the bloodstream, starting in the inferior vena cava we named all of the structures we passed as we made our progression out to the muscles.

We made our way from inferior vena cava, one of the major blood vessels returning to the heart, into the right atrium. On the out side of the right atrium is the sinoatrial node (SA node) which...

I was working with a student last week who is preparing for her French 2 final (in high school). She has not had much success with her teacher and is missing some very basic vocabulary and grammar concepts. Although she has improved by leaps and bounds she needs a really good grade on this final. At the end of our tutoring session, we broke down the units that would appear on her final. This would give her a lesson a day, and then two days of light overview the days before. I personally had a very difficult time following a paper plan like this when I was in high school. What is your experience...

Students, who have a diagnosis of ADHD or ADD, as well as many other affective disorders, struggle with more specifically called executive functions. Executive functions include: memory, organization, impulse control, and connecting past experience with current actions. To help these students some simple proactive help from those who want the best for them can make all the difference: make sure they have many pockets, keep stray papers stapled to the inside of a spiral (avoid three-ring binders as these are very frustrating for executive function disorder students), have them wear a watch with...

Today I enjoyed a first tutoring session with an intelligent young student who wanted to understand better how a speaker works. She had built one as part of a class assignment and it worked! The principle of the speaker is a based on physics, namely, the force between two magnets. I explained how a time-varying electrical current from the stereo system flows through a wire wrapped in the form of a coil, and this coil then produces a time-varying magnetic field. This field acts on a permanent magnet, alternately pushing and pulling on it according to which way the current was flowing. This...

The end of the school year is coming very fast! We need to ensure that our children and students are readily prepared for the tests that are coming. Through extra vocabulary practice, increased reading times, as well as checking for reading comprehension is very important. It's also important to start thinking about next year. If this had some rough spots, that could be avoided next year. We need to work together! If you child was specifically having issues in one subject area, we could take the summer time and ensure that they are more comfortable and even advanced in that subject area. Contact...

In elementary school I was the subject of bullying. Hard to believe little kids can be that mean right? Also in Elementary I was in a turbulent household dealing with a drinking father who yelled at my mother all of the time. Well if I could go back to my Catholic school and tell my self something, I would say that it doesn't last. One day you will be in college as a female pre-engineer and instead of making fun of you people will come to you for help with class and questions about advice on life. I would tell my self to hang in there because even though it will be bad though 10th grade in 11th...

I am also available to review your Cadd projects if you like. I'll check that all information is on the correct layers. Page set-ups are correct. I'll clean up the drawings, remove all unnecessary info. imbedded within, thus decreasing the file size.

Hello All,

I've been a teacher for the last 8 years in California. Teaching and tutoring is a passion that I've held and dreamed since I was a little girl. Anyone can learn. If your child needs help then I can help.

I have a multiple subject credential with a supplemental in math, science and computers. I was an electrical computer engineering major at Cal Poly Pomona for four years and so my math and science skills are strong.

Hope to meet you soon.

Shree B.

I had a student send me a message on Facebook about Florida Multiple Choice (MC) as to was their bar prep company going to have more multiple choice questions available for practice because it seemed like there weren't that many in the books.

The quick and dirty answer: No.

But I don't like quick and dirty (no comments from the peanut gallery please), so I did some research for you.

As to the great debate between Kaplan and Barbri: It appears that Barbri does have some online questions. It does quizzes at the end of each section for the topic and has a Simulated Florida Exam towards the end...