Sharing Our Thoughts on Education and Tutoring
Treating Maths Anxiety: Un-learning Beliefs and Building Self-efficacy
Mathematics anxiety is the apprehension and crippling fear of doing maths, whether it be in a maths classroom or taking a test. Like many anxieties, the central problematic behaviour is avoidance. Anxiety itself is an adaptive trait to protect us from possible harms....
3 NAPLAN Myths Busted: Demystifying Common Misconceptions About the NAPLAN Test
Just hearing the word ‘NAPLAN’ is enough to raise anyone’s blood pressure; images of stressed out kids, parents and teachers spring to mind. Since 2008 the NAPLAN tests have been measuring the reading, writing, literacy and numeracy skills of Australian children, and...
Education – A Matter of Wisdom
During the past month, there has been a media focus on the drop in Literacy and Numeracy standards in Australian compared to the global community. To arrive at a reason for this phenomenon would be too broad to address in this short article except to say that we...
How Learning a Second Language Benefits Students’ Development and Education
Increasingly, Australian schools are taking positive steps towards making language lessons a compulsory part of the syllabus. Many primary and high school students now learn Italian, French or Japanese, among other languages. But languages classes aren’t just a ‘fun...
Pleasures of Reading: Benefits
Children's inherent appetite for books should be encouraged through activities that build a passion for reading. This can be achieved through active participation in literature that whet's their imagination and interests. Whilst technology, for a time, reigned in...
Balanced Life During Christmas Holidays
The Christmas Break…A Time to Study? Ho ho…No! It’s looking a lot like Christmas… and the holidays are upon us! When you hear of the festive holidays, you’re either one of two people. You’re thinking, “No, please get me out of here! I have work to do!” OR, you’re...
Finding the Right Tutor For Your Child
Tutor-Student Matching: How does it work? It is a well-known fact that as social beings, humans, especially children, learn from those they interact with closely on a daily basis. Children spend an average of 30 hours a week in school, and with other commitments like...
Student Resilience and Anxiety Disorders
There has been a great deal of discussion in 21st century education, especially in the past few years, about the importance of resilience for success in school. Glazed-eyed students study their fingernails for many an hour in Life Skills lessons in junior high school,...
A Differentiated Curriculum: Same Same…but Different?
Why tutoring can give students equal opportunities to learn A differentiated curriculum is a learning program that, ideally, meets the academic needs and interests of every student. This means that all the teaching approaches outlined in the curriculum are flexible,...
Learning to Play and Playing to Learn
Why Time for Fun and Games is Essential for Early Childhood Education The early years of childhood, specifically those before and during kindergarten, are vital years for growing minds. It is during these years that children first learn how to perceive the world...
NAPLAN and HSC Changes: Teaching the Skills Students need to Succeed
Read on for more information about how Nepean Tutoring can help your child to achieve a ‘world-class’ HSC credential. You may have heard the news – for the first time in seventeen years, changes have been made to the NSW school curriculum. These changes require...
Tips if You’re Cramming for Exams
Don’t Cram; Cramming for exam is the study-mate of procrastination. It is what happens when you decide, the night before the exam, that you can make up for lost time. “All I need is coffee and I’ll stay up all night reading all of the text book and then I’ll be set...
Online Tutoring
While Nepean Tutoring is predominantly an "in home" tutoring service, the need to diversify became evident as the business grew and time restraints caused availability issues. The inception of online learning as an option still met our philosophy of "one to one"...
Tutoring and Learning Styles
When I first began tutoring students in English, I expected that I would be helping them in a variety of areas. I knew that some of these would perhaps include revising the basics of Grammar, building vocabulary and aiding in comprehension and analysis of texts. The...
Standardised Testing: The Pros and Cons
Standardised testing is a contentious subject that has invoked academic debate in recent times. This short blog present a brief idea of the pros and cons of academic testing.