Jane's Tutoring Blog

I recently worked with a 19-year-old student whose goal was to enter the military, but could not score high enough on the ASVAB pretest to be considered. He had a lot of heart, but lacked consistency for his goals from one day to the next. In the course of conversation, he would simultaneously explain why he wanted to do dental assisting, and also why it was not a good fit for him, effectively removing the option from himself. While tutoring him, his consistent, underlying objective seemed to be to gain entrance into the military (in any rate) and to experience the comrodory that the military...

I have been working through this last school year with a 5th grade student on her mathematics. It has been a long year! She is a bright, fun, outgoing youngster, but when it came to math, she shut down and turned into a timid, fearful little girl. At the beginning of the year, she was unable to multiply numbers and fractions scared her more than anything. We have spent the entire year working on building confidence, and skills, with math. She is now able to multiply numbers "because they are so easy!"; she can also add, subtract, and multiply fractions,find the lowest common denominators, and...