Sharing Our Thoughts on Education and Tutoring
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.
Fostering Creativity in Children
I always believed that creativity was an inborn talent that children either do or do not have. However, just as all children's intelligence are not equal, all children are not equally creative unless they are provided with the right environment...
A Tutor’s Perspective
As we move closer to the the beginning of the new school year I keep thinking about ways in which we can inspire our students to gain a love of learning. I guess that's a little bit of a cliche, but I truly believe that education must become an act of passion to be...
Tutoring – A Celebration
When I look back over the past year, I am overwhelmed at the changes in my life. Small business ownership is certainly not for the feint hearted but for those who are ready for a challenge and to believe that their product can make a difference in today's competitive...
Celebrating Your Child
Celebrating your Child’s Academic Achievements In 2011, after the Wall Street Journal published the essay “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior: Can a regimen of no playdates, no TV, no computer games and hours of music practice create happy kids?” by Amy Chua, people...
Surviving the HSC
We go through the present blindfolded. Only when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, we realise what we have been through and understand what it means. That’s exactly what it feels like now after completing my HSC five years ago. I can truly see and...
What Makes a Learner?
I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.” These profound words were written by Sydney Poitier in his novel “Life Beyond Measure, Letters to My Great-Granddaughter.” If only we all had this attitude towards learning. He poetically writes “I didn't have an...