Tag: tutoring

New Year’s Resolution: Prioritizing One-to-One Tutoring

Over the past decade,studies indicate that one-to-one tutoring keeps children on track and provides a powerful solution by addressing learning challenges. Educational research consistently supports the impact of personalized instruction. Studies from organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research and the U.S. Department of Education demonstrate that high-dosage tutoring, consistent, individualized instruction multiple times per week, can accelerate learning by several months within a single academic year, particularly in math and literacy. These findings reinforce what we see every day at GAMECHANGER Tutoring Connection: when students receive the right support, at the right level, with the right educator, their trajectory changes.

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Hiring the Right Tutor Can Empower Your Child

That’s the power of connecting with an effective, right fit tutor for any academic subject. They don’t do the work for a child. Yet, they can be lifelines for children who feel lost in the classroom, who can’t grasp concepts, who might learn differently, who might be disorganized, or who might need to simply build confidence in their own skills. 

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5 Steps to Becoming a Confident Writer

Becoming a strong, confident writer is a more complex process, as practicing this skillset must be broken down into several different parts and then placed together to form a cohesively written essay, story, letter, book, research document….

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When Math Doesn’t Add Up: 5 Ways to Build Math Skills Over the Summer

When students close their math texts and stop problem solving, their math skills diminish. Over the summer, students tend to lose over a month’s worth of math knowledge. This leaves students playing a game of catch up when school restarts in the fall.  Students struggle to stay on top of the curriculum when they return to school, as math concepts build on each other. Moreover, since math lays the foundation for learning other subjects, falling behind in math creates academic deficits in other subjects. 

GAMECHANGER Tutoring Connection has 5 ways to build math skills over the summer.

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Brain Food: 5 Essential Brain-Boosting Recipes

Understanding kids’ relationship with food and its tie to their mental health helps determine which foods can accommodate a kid’s healthy lifestyle and can promote mental health. Helping kids develop healthy eating habits, teaching them to avoid trigger foods, to exercise self-determination in food choices, and to understand the socio-emotional role of food. 

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5 Reasons to Fall in Love with Learning

This Valentine’s week, GAMECHANGER Tutoring Connection wants you to fall in love…with learning. Students who love to learn tend to engage in classroom discussions, dive into their schoolwork, and thrive from positive feedback from peers, teachers, and parents. Students who fall in love with learning find wonder in most tasks and challenges. And, students who fall in love with learning develop a commitment to lifelong learning and live happier, more fulfilling lives. 

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7 Ways to Support Students’ Mental Health

Between the social-emotional post-pandemic catch up, global uncertainty and dangers, and the greater academic stresses in our more competitive world, students are more debilitated than ever by external stress factors. To accommodate students’ increased stress levels, schools can expand social-emotional learning programs, make a greater effort to recognize signs of trauma and behavioral changes in students, provide mental health support for students, and support mental health professionals in academic environments. 

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