Colleen's Tutoring Blog

WyzAnt wants to know...

If you could go back in time and give your younger self one piece of academic or professional advice, what would it be?

-DON'T be so serious!! Have more fun! Life is short...

-take time to -wonder- at the universe in all its glories and strangenesses - look at the platypus and wonder "God, what in the world were you thinking with the platypus and armadillo?"

-read more books,

-walk in the woods more,

-be easier on yourself with your mistakes - it's not the end of the world,

-take a few days off to just chill, it (whatever "it" is) will be there when you...

Some books that I have found to be very useful for parents, whether that is to help your child become organized or just better understand where your child is 'coming from'...these can help you help them. ;-)

I would also recommend calling Half Price Books, to see if they have a copy. If you can wait a week, they might be able to get a copy from another store.

To help your child to 'get organized', especially if they do the work, but never can seem to find it (when they get to class) but do find it eventually when they get home...a lot of good tips
9780743270205 The Organized Student by Donna...

This area is for students or parents, especially those that are willing to put forth the effort to learn more, and be a better student, to achieve more ;-)

To help my students I normally assign them 5 new words a day. Whether they open a physical dictionary or go to the links below, the important thing is that they learn and use new words.

Tools ------
dictionary.com - a handy resource with access to multiple dictionaries in one place, especially if you don't have one in the home.

worddynamo.com - great website that will send you (after you sign up for free) an email of a quickie multiple...

I find most folks today (kids & adults) have the most difficulty in reading and comprehension of what they are reading.

Much of that is due to a lack of reading, most folks do not know much in the way of vocabulary (beyond every day useage) and that really hurts them when they come to testing. I also note that most folks don't put much time into reading for pleasure. And the GREAT thing is that it can be fixed!!!! (wahoo!!! life is good)

Parents, it's important to impress upon your (hopefully) college bound child EARLY on as a freshman - sophomore - junior - senior, that the better they...