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What is the difference between teaching and tutoring?

2008-03-03T18:33:47+00:00

There is a big difference between teaching and tutoring. Typically in a teaching environment you are dealing with a large group of students that make individual attention difficult.

Tutoring is usually one on one - although sometimes in a small group - and the tutoring session is customized for the needs of the individual or group.

Small Business Tutoring Services

2008-01-24T03:05:15+00:00

Some of the Small Business Tutoring Services available services for:

Small Business Owners
Internet Entrepreneurs
Business Start-Ups
Employees in both large and small businesses

The types of Small Business Tutoring include:

Internet Marketing
Social Network Marketing
Search Engine Optimization - SEO
Search Engine marketing
Web site building and design
All things related to blogs and blogging including blogging for bucks
W3C Compliance
HTML
Adobe Dreamweaver
Microsoft Frontpage
Quickbooks
Introduction to Accounting and Bookkeeping for Small Businesses
Networking
Community Web Site building and promotion
Business Plans for Internet Entrepreneurs
Computers for the Absolute Beginner
Intermediate and Advanced computer skills
Taking your business online
Desktop Publishing
Introduction to Graphic Design
Marketing

And more.

Please 'Contact Us' to discuss and assess your needs.

Florida Officially Adopts FreeReading.net, Free, Open Source Elementary Reading Program

2008-01-24T01:18:50+00:00

First Open Source Instructional Program Approved Through a State Adoption Process An Option to Traditional, Highly Priced Textbooks

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Wireless Generation today announced that www.FreeReading.net, a free, open source reading program, has been officially adopted by the state of Florida. The adoption places FreeReading.net on a short list of K-3 supplemental reading programs that Florida schools may use state instructional money to purchase for the 2008-2009 school year. FreeReading.net is the first open source instructional program to be approved through an official state adoption. The Florida decision, along with educators' strong positive response to the program, indicates that school systems will consider alternatives to the traditional printed textbook.

"K-12 education has long been wedded to the traditional model of educational publishing, in which textbooks are updated and reprinted every 5 to 7 years, and schools pay as much as $150 for a single book. Florida's decision is a significant tipping point, validating the notion that educators will consider high quality open source instructional programs as a viable option to support classroom instruction," said Larry Berger, CEO and Co-Founder of Wireless Generation.

Open source coupled with a Web 2.0 platform offers distinct advantages over the traditional publishing model. Instructional material can be regularly updated to reflect the collective wisdom of teachers and researchers. In addition, open source instructional programs can be produced and distributed inexpensively, significantly reducing or, in the case of FreeReading.net, completely eliminating the prices that schools pay for such programs. Because FreeReading.net is available at no charge, Florida districts can invest more of their textbook funding in instructional tools and materials that support effective teaching.

Science Quotes

2008-01-23T22:48:22+00:00

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith Quotes

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.
Albert Einstein Quotes

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Albert Einstein Quotes

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell Quotes

(Science is) the labor and handicraft of the mind.
Francis Bacon Quotes

Science is the systematic classification of experience.
George Henry Lewes Quotes

Better Organization Better Grades

2008-01-15T10:13:46+00:00

For every young student who has gotten in trouble for forgetting to complete a homework assignment, David Schwartz has a solution.

In 1996, in response to his 8-year-old son's request for help in organizing school papers, Schwartz invented a binder system with color-coded folders matched to different school subjects and tabbed pockets that separate homework from reference sheets and tests or quizzes.

The system had an immediate impact on his son's grades, which jumped from C's to A's and attracted the attention of the school principal, who commissioned binders for the entire class at the Fay School in Southborough.

The David (short for "data accessed and viewed in individual documents") Organizing Assistant is now taking off in public schools in Cambridge. Last fall, Fletcher-Maynard Academy implemented the binder system for fifth through eighth grades, and Cambridgeport School provided binders for students in grades 3 and 4. Pilot implementation is scheduled at the Maria L. Baldwin School and the Kennedy-Longfellow School this spring.

Schwarz, chief executive officer of Framingham-based Productive Education LLC, is working out contracts to provide the binders for the schools.

Read the rest of the story from The Boston Globe...

What is ESL?

2008-01-15T10:03:20+00:00

ESL is English as a Second Language.

Math Quotes

2008-01-15T09:51:52+00:00

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein Quotes

Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
Albert Einstein Quotes

Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.
Author Unknown Quotes

It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class.
Author Unknown Quotes

Math is radical!
Bumper Sticker Quotes

Tutoring Quotes

2008-01-15T09:48:20+00:00

Still more plain the Tutor, the grave man, nicknamed Adam, / White-tied, clerical, silent, with antique square-cut waistcoat / Formal, unchanged, of black cloth, but with sense and feeling beneath it.
Arthur Hugh Clough Quotes

My father could no longer teach at the high school, but he was now allowed to go around as a private tutor to earn some money.
Bruno Schulz Quotes

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
John Locke Quotes

Mathematics Is Simple

2007-12-04T03:53:02+00:00

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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

John Louis von Neumann Quotes