Getting Help When Tamika Found Out That She Was Failing Algebra

Getting Help When Tamika Found Out That She Was Failing AlgebraWhen Tamika found out that she was failing algebra, she immediately sought out help. She didn't know what to do. Her teacher had told her to turn in homework and then came up with this plan: to ask her friend for help. All of a sudden, everyone's in on a secret.The teacher was a very sweet person, but everyone knew she was not the best tutor. Tamika thought that even if she asked her friend, it wouldn't do any good. Maybe that was why she just cried.'I can't believe that everyone is getting together and planning a surprise party.' Tamika told me as we watched the group coming to a circle around her.She hoped to be better at the next test, but what choice did she have? She had no idea how to approach her teacher. She really wanted her to tell her the truth.I watched her sitting alone in the chair as her teacher began to open up. The teacher was going to tell her.Everyone was quiet. At first, there was no secret. Tamika did n't know it, but that was the beginning of a two-day party. It was the one year anniversary of when her first friend, a girl named Beverly, found out that she was failing algebra. Tamika and Beverly, who also had learning disabilities, kept in touch after that.Youdon't need to go to a beach to find your friends, so you could ask for help every time. You could just make a plan. It could take some effort, but the rewards will be great.

Educator of the Year Award

Educator of the Year Award Oradell, NJ March 11, 2015 Huntington Learning Center, one of the leading tutoring centers in America, awarded Lita Gottesman the 2014 Educator of the Year award last month. Huntington Learning Center announced the prestigious award at its annual Company Center Convention held at the Teaneck Marriott at Glen Pointe. The convention was a time to honor staff members and their dedicated work. Lita is one of the most requested teachers at Huntingtons Eastchester, NY center. She believes it is important to follow the curriculum and help every student reach his or her fullest potential. For example, Lita has converted students from the special education classrooms into regular education classrooms. Her willingness to work and assist in any situation is what makes Lita such an inspiration to students. Huntington has been fortunate enough to have Lita as a teacher for 12 years. One Huntington parent explained: My son would not even pick up a book. He could barely read in the fourth grade! After working with Lita these past two months, he cannot put the books down! With a Bachelors of Arts in education, along with a double major in political science and history, teaching has always been a huge part of her life. Lita has been in the education profession since 1958.

Learning English with Television Series Friends

Learning English with Television Series Friends A lot of my English students tell me they like to practice their English listening skills by watching television series from the U.S. Big Bang Theory, Friends and Two and a Half Men are the series that come up most often.Ill admit it right now, I dont like any of these shows. I think their jokes are obvious, easy and not very original. I greatly prefer The Office and Louie. When I first discovered that people outside the U.S. like these shows so much, I was about as disappointed as when I learned a good Argentine friend of mine really loves going to McDonalds. Really, our culture does have better things to offer than McDonalds and Friends.But, I can completely understand why these shows would be popular for English learners, precisely for the reasons I mentioned above. The jokes arent that difficult to understand, and the shows have just the right combination of interesting and simple to keep someone who is learning a language interested. I do the same think when Im learning  Spanis h, but I use Pixar movies.So, despite my dislike of these shows personally, Im going to try to use them as listening exercises in more of our articles. Here we go.They wouldnt let me post this video from YouTube, but you can watch it here.What does Phoebe yell at the beginning?Go ahead and _____.Its a nice story, I _____ ____ its a _____ ____ ____.Yeah, I just dont ___ __.What does Phoebe mean when she says Dont get me started on Gravity.Uh oh, its Issac Newton, and hes ______.What does Phoebe say the really question is?How does Phoebe win the argument?I cant believe you _____.What does the line above mean?Ok, I have to admit I laughed at some of that. Contact us if youre interested in taking a class, or have any questions.

TutorZ.com Integrates GoogleMaps 3.0 to Improve Usability of its Online Service

TutorZ.com Integrates GoogleMaps 3.0 to Improve Usability of its Online Service Los Angeles, California, July 19th, 2012 TutorZ.com, a leading nation-wide tutoring referral service now supports  GoogleMaps 3 as to previously version 2.  Version 3 of Google Maps is faster, slicker and more applicable both to traditional browsers and to mobile devises. GoogleMaps 3 provides numerous features for manipulating maps which makes  identifying  of the tutors location easy and quick.  These maps display the location of the tutors in their respective tutoring profiles, e.g. algebra tutor in Port Hueneme, CA.  The new map zooms in an out smoothly, supports satellite and terrain view.  The icon in the center represents a tutor and features a drop shadow. Holding your mouse over this tutor brings up a title such as Tutor James in Los Angeles, CA. Googles obligatory mentioning of its copyright and terms of use links are less obtrusive.  Clicking on the Google link opens up a large-scale version of the map.  The coolest feature, however, is to drag the observer icon into the street of the tutor to switch to the actual street view.  Now a student can familiarize himself with the place of tutoring to quicker get to his destination. TutorZ’ platform helps students and parents freely and easily network to find a tutor over the Internet. The search engine maintains a simple and clean construction. Site users looking for homework help, test preparation, and other tutor help have the option to search by keyword or subject (Math, English, Science, etc) and area (Brooklyn, Houston, Ohio). The search engine currently lists over 55,000 tutor profiles nationwide, a number that is expanding daily. Tutoring information is compiled into easy to read tutor profiles that include certifications, credentials, professional experience, awards, degrees, references, pictures, location, and peer reviews. Relevance ranking and filters empower students to quickly hone in to the perfect tutor. Tutors listed in the Tutorz’ directory cover academic studies including math, English, languages, business, accounting,  physics,  biology, chemistry and many more. For additional information on TutorZ.com contact Dirk Wagner (CEO Founder) at dirk@tutorz.com or Dariya Lopukhina (Director of Marketing) at dariya@tutorz.com. ABOUT Tutorz â€" Founded in July of 2006 and launched at the beginning of 2007  by Dirk Wagner, TutorZ.com operates a tutor referral service that helps parents and students find educational tutors. Currently Tutorz is based out of Los Angeles  and is a privately owned limited liability corporation (LLC) with four employees.  The TutorZ.com site provides listings of over 55,000 private tutors nationwide. Visit  TutorZ.com to find the best tutor for you or your child. TutorZ.com Integrates GoogleMaps 3.0 to Improve Usability of its Online Service Los Angeles, California, July 19th, 2012 TutorZ.com, a leading nation-wide tutoring referral service now supports  GoogleMaps 3 as to previously version 2.  Version 3 of Google Maps is faster, slicker and more applicable both to traditional browsers and to mobile devises. GoogleMaps 3 provides numerous features for manipulating maps which makes  identifying  of the tutors location easy and quick.  These maps display the location of the tutors in their respective tutoring profiles, e.g. algebra tutor in Port Hueneme, CA.  The new map zooms in an out smoothly, supports satellite and terrain view.  The icon in the center represents a tutor and features a drop shadow. Holding your mouse over this tutor brings up a title such as Tutor James in Los Angeles, CA. Googles obligatory mentioning of its copyright and terms of use links are less obtrusive.  Clicking on the Google link opens up a large-scale version of the map.  The coolest feature, however, is to drag the observer icon into the street of the tutor to switch to the actual street view.  Now a student can familiarize himself with the place of tutoring to quicker get to his destination. TutorZ’ platform helps students and parents freely and easily network to find a tutor over the Internet. The search engine maintains a simple and clean construction. Site users looking for homework help, test preparation, and other tutor help have the option to search by keyword or subject (Math, English, Science, etc) and area (Brooklyn, Houston, Ohio). The search engine currently lists over 55,000 tutor profiles nationwide, a number that is expanding daily. Tutoring information is compiled into easy to read tutor profiles that include certifications, credentials, professional experience, awards, degrees, references, pictures, location, and peer reviews. Relevance ranking and filters empower students to quickly hone in to the perfect tutor. Tutors listed in the Tutorz’ directory cover academic studies including math, English, languages, business, accounting,  physics,  biology, chemistry and many more. For additional information on TutorZ.com contact Dirk Wagner (CEO Founder) at dirk@tutorz.com or Dariya Lopukhina (Director of Marketing) at dariya@tutorz.com. ABOUT Tutorz â€" Founded in July of 2006 and launched at the beginning of 2007  by Dirk Wagner, TutorZ.com operates a tutor referral service that helps parents and students find educational tutors. Currently Tutorz is based out of Los Angeles  and is a privately owned limited liability corporation (LLC) with four employees.  The TutorZ.com site provides listings of over 55,000 private tutors nationwide. Visit  TutorZ.com to find the best tutor for you or your child.

I am new at Tutorz.com, what did I learn

I am new at Tutorz.com, what did I learn Hello everybody! My name is Dariya and I’m a newcomer at Tutorz.com. What did I learn during my last days? First of all I’d like to mention that my life has changed significantly. In December 2011 Tutorz.com has opened a marketing office in Donetsk, Ukraine. Our American boss Dirk Wagner is building our team on the concepts which are quite unusual for the Ukrainian companies (and probably not only for the Ukrainian ones). From the very first days when I came to our office I could feel that I was sincerely welcome here. It was a very surprising feeling because usually when you start to work in a new company you often can see suspicion and distrust in the eyes of your new colleagues. It always takes some time to win the confidence and to find friends among them. Good and warm relations from the very beginning this was the first lesson which I learned here. Dirk has become not only my new boss but also my private tutor as my duties included customer service and Internet marketing which were absolutely new activities for me. It took just several days for him to teach me the basics and the main surprise for me was that the study was neither intense nor boring at all. We had a lot of fun and I consider that it’s rather uncommon for tutoring process. Dirk was n’t my first tutor. Ukrainian educational system is very far from being perfect and although we learnt English at school for 6 years and also at University for 5 years but still the most part of my mates had great problems with speaking or at least understanding English. As for me although I graduated from a prestigious high school my mother had to hire a private tutor to improve my English when I was in high school and afterwards I had to continue my learning in a private English club. But my former tutors never were as well-wishing, patient and friendly as Dirk. So the second les son for me was that such kind of tutoring approach exists and can be effective. So during my first days at Tutorz’ team I gained not only basic knowledge of my new duties but I also realized that learning must not be boring and hard. On the contrary with a great tutor it can be interesting and fun process. And the main lesson is that the friendly and warm atmosphere at team makes the work not only pleasant but also very productive.

Ever wonder what its like to go to Space Camp

Ever wonder what it's like to go to Space Camp My Space Camp group, Team Holderer. It all started early on Thursday. I was the Station Commander on the Enterprise Shuttle. I prepared for lift off.  Space Ghost Mike whispers, “Pretend you have a leg cramp and stand up.” As soon as I do, the force of acceleration throws me back against the wall. “Woops, sprained neck!” shouts Mike. Kate rushes to me. “Broken leg!” shouts Space Ghost Andrew. David waits until Allison declares it’s safe to get up. He grabs a neck brace from the medicine bag and rushes to help me. Andrew, noticing that David neglected to close the bag, capitalizes on the opportunity. All of a sudden, syringes start flying through the air. David is injected with Valium. He rushes towards the control panel, and in his frenzied button pushing, he deactivates the cabin fan. Ogyen runs to finish my neck brace, so I’ll be able to move. Immediately after, he faints. There must be a way to get our mission back on track. I stand there, thinking. Suddenly, Allison faints. The temperature is climbing rapidly, and I know that if I don’t act soon, we will all die. I snap out of my trance. I grab oxygen masks for my companions. I pick up the headset to contact Mission Control, but our contact is out of commission.   I’m on my own. First step: control David. I grab the duct tape. “David,” I say. “There’s an alien outside!” He giddily rushes over. “Sorry,” I say, as I tape him to the wall. “The drugs will be out of your system soon.” I notice that Catelyn and Kate have fainted too. I need to fix the fans. What buttons did David hit? There were hundreds on the control panel, and it looked like he had pushed quite a few. I fumble through the instruction manual. Payload bay doors, LiOH canisters, EVAs… cabin fans. I begin typing in the codes. David faints. “You’re getting very sleepy,” says Mike. I speed up. I check the temperature. The codes aren’t working. Still 107… “You’re dizzy too,” Andrew announces. I decide that it’s time to get creative. I glance at the temperature again. I stare in awe as it drops to 103… 97…90! My solution worked! We’re safe! I glance around me. Everyone is starting to wake up. The Space Ghosts applaud. “Didn’t think you were going to be able to fix that,” admires Andrew. I smile. Yes, I think, chaos is definitely my element.

Using Google to Become a Graphic Designer

Using Google to Become a Graphic Designer Photo by Young Design via Flickr.com With everything in life, learning Photoshop will take practice; practice makes permanence. All you need to get started in a good Internet connection, Adobe Photoshop, and Google. As a student, you can buy it at a highly discounted rate through the educational package. All you have to do is send them a photo of your student identification and the discount will be automatically applied. There are thousands if not millions of Photoshop tutorials online and they can each teach you something new. Photoshop has hundreds of features that even the most experienced graphic designer does not know about. The more tricks you learn, the more you can do. To get started, think of something you want to do and type it into the Google search box followed by “Photoshop tutorial” and search it. For example, type in “background blur Photoshop tutorial” and this comes up:  http://www.digiretus.com/tippek/cikkiro.php?SORSZAM=11 And you get step-by-step photo directions on how to blur the background a photo.   To learn how to create vectors, you can type in “vector Photoshop tutorial” and this comes up:  http://www.melissaevans.com/tutorials/vector-art-with-photoshop After trying about 10 tutorials, combine your skills and produce something from scratch. You will be amazed to see what you are capable of now! Yes, the Internet is a powerful tool that will save you a bunch of money in classes. You can learn much more than Photoshop on the Internet. You can learn how to cook, bake, decorate, dress, do your hair/makeup, jewelry, and even learn a new language. It’s all at your reach, don’t let all your resources go to waste: use them to enhance yourself.