Hello! I hope you all enjoyed a well-deserved and much-needed day off Monday. Below you'll find terrific resources, links to a couple of interesting articles, an important tip for absences and a business update. I think I've decided that posting once a week should do the job . . .
Resources
This fantastic AP US History Cram book has a very readable style, multiple choice questions after each section, practice essay questions, and even sample DBQs.
This site includes lots of fun, challenging games that claim to help hone crucial skills: spatial skills, verbal skills, even processing speed.
A really important foundational piece of learning new vocabulary, both to improve reading comprehension and to prepare for standardized tests like the SAT, is morphemes: word roots, prefixes and suffixes.
Tips & Strategies
Everyone Misses School Sometimes
1. Copy the lecture notes from someone reliable. (Try talking to a couple of classmates.)
2. Speak to the teacher to get any handouts distributed while you were gone.
3. Hand in or show the teacher homework that was due while you were gone.
4. Find out what was assigned while you were gone.
News & Research
Mark G. Yudof, president of the University of California said, 'The real crunch is helping families that make roughly $100,000. The most at risk at this time really are going to be the middle class.'
"With state contributions largely flat or down over the last 15 years, and enrollments and costs up, many top flagships are . . . accepting larger numbers of out-of-state students, who often pay twice the tuition of residents. At the same time, applications are pouring in from students shut out by the stratospheric cost of private colleges. . . . Flagships are attracting more wealthy and better-prepared students. . . . The evolution underway is putting some flagships out of reach for the students who were typically enrolled even a decade ago. Each year, the quality of students as well as the budget model skews closer to that of elite private universities."
"The ventral striatum . . . which maintains levels of motivation when a person starts a task and continues to maintain motivation until the task is completed, [is smaller in children with AD/HD.]"
Business Update
- I'm thrilled to report very enthusiastic participation from students at last week's Learning Workshops. Kids did a fabulous job of analyzing their learning styles and taking honest stock of themselves as students!
- Just a gentle reminder about the 24-hour cancellation policy . . . Of course kids get sick sometimes and things come up, but if you do need to cancel, please give as much notice as possible so another client is able to take your slot.
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Dear Karolina,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for visiting my classes last week. I really appreciated all the great advice you gave the kids and me. I know that homework has risen by 20% in some classes and the quality of those assignments feature more highlighting, underlining, and genuine thought. I hope our administration takes note and that you can train all the teachers with your good ideas!
The kids and the teachers miss you very much!