Help when learning is hard
As your child's parent you have the best possible knowledge of what your child needs for the best outcomes. Professionals may be able to advise you about individual courses of action or suggest ways to encourage your child to learn, but you are the holder of all of that knowledge as you have taken your… Continue reading Your Child’s Best Advocate
Last night I used a new app "Hanx Writer" to prepare today's blog post. I must say I was more than a little impressed and so the post I prepared can wait until next week! Hanx Writer is a word processing app developed by the actor Tom Hanks, that turns your iPad into an old… Continue reading Hanx Writer Review
I also use flash cards as a teaching tool during sessions. In a way I suppose they are a bit like a study card, but they are in use all of the time in my sessions and as a reminder of the way to complete a task, rather than a set of facts to remember.… Continue reading Flash Cards for Teaching
Following on my my post earlier in the week about one of my favourite resources - flash cards! For today I am sharing the ways in which I use these cards for study notes for students. Study notes are traditionally something considered in the domain of high school, but I introduce these much earlier as… Continue reading Flash Cards for Study Notes
There are few items I consider "staples" in my tutoring work and flash cards are definitively the top of that list. I buy flash cards in bulk and have some variety - small coloured ones, plain white cards, larger lined cards ... and a single day of tutoring does not go by without the use… Continue reading Flash Cards – A Universal Tutoring Tool!
It is an enormously difficult task to be parent of a child with a learning disability trying to determine where precious financial resources should be spent to help your child. What complicates this is the number of individuals and organisations who make promises about guaranteed cures and quick fixes. I'd be tempted too, but in… Continue reading Buyer Beware
Yesterday afternoon I was on the train and could not avoid overhearing some senior high school students talking / providing constructive criticism / complaining about their English teacher. Their point was quite simple, when the lesson takes too long (or lessons take too long) to get to the point, what's the point? Specifically, they were chatting… Continue reading Listening to Our Students