by Gretchen | Sep 24, 2012 | Academic Coaching, Study Skills
OK, that title might be a bit of an exaggeration. I don’t really believe that tutors do more harm than good — but I DO believe that there are some bad habits students fall victim to where tutors are concerned. Now that the school year has started, students...
by Gretchen | Dec 11, 2011 | Academic Coaching, Study Skills
Several seniors with whom I work have recently been assigned their first nonfiction (read: non-textbook) book: The Future of Freedom by Fareed Zakaria. This is not light reading, and several of them feel lost. It’s a big jump to go from a textbook that force...
by Gretchen | Dec 8, 2011 | Academic Coaching, Study Skills
Many of my academic coaching clients have a devil of a time studying for tests. The reasons are varied, but one major stumbling block I’ve uncovered is this: students do not understand the purpose that homework plays in preparing them for tests! Our current...
by Gretchen | Nov 27, 2011 | Academic Coaching, Study Skills
Many educators — myself included! — have espoused learning styles as an important factor in increasing student motivation and performance. When I was a classroom teacher, I had students take learning inventories, and then I would use the results of this...
by Gretchen | Oct 4, 2011 | Academic Coaching, Study Skills
I have a confession to make: I love to read and sleep at the same time. Well, not literally at the same time (that would be impossible). But interchanging napping and reading is one of my favorite ways to learn new material. In my work as an academic coach, parents...
by Gretchen | Sep 15, 2011 | Academic Coaching, Organization, Study Skills
One of the most important tasks as an academic coach is to help students understand how to leverage their learning styles to study more effectively … and hopefully more pleasurably. This week one of my 9th grade clients came in beaming. She couldn’t wait...
