Dear Parents,
Happy Thanksigiving! I hope you had a good one. Over the next month, schedules are interrupted, people go on vacations and have hectic holiday plans. Please remember to make room for plenty of down time for your weary students, who have spent day in and day out preparing for all manner of tests for the past several months.
Have a happy holiday season, and I look forward to helping your child succeed in the coming year,
Best Regards,
-Evans Boney
CEO H-bar Tutoring
http://hbartutoring.com/Why_h-bar.html
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Ask Your Child About Classes
Dear Parents,
By now, your child has gotten back into the flow of school, and you're running your various routines, probably at a frantic pace. It can be hard to keep track of everything, so, once again, let me be a helpful reminder: Talk to your child about their homework and classes!
I ask this for many reasons, first and foremost, because they probably want to tell you. Either they are frustrated with a class and a teacher and would like to vent, or they may have had an interesting question for homework in a class or learned some cool new fact. In any case, it doesn't hurt just to check in!
Let me share a story about one of our biology students, and one of our great tutors, Paul Minor. This student was falling a little behind in biology and having trouble paying attention in class. For some reason, science just wasn't that interesting being tossed at you from the front of a 25 person classroom. Enter Paul, one of our great tutors, and a PhD Candidate in Biology at Caltech. Paul spends every day in the lab on the cutting edge of biology and, after he and the student had been working for only a month, we got a followup call. It was from this child's father, who was raving because his son was now so interested in biology.
That's the H-bar difference that comes from using only the highest quality math and science tutors. Our tutors don't just know the high school math and science, they know the college math and science and they also generally know cutting edge math and science across many disciplines. It's this ability to connect ideas across various levels that can really capture the imagination of a child. Friction isn't that interesting as it's taught in physics classrooms... but just this year multiple influential papers have investigated friction laws at very small scales.
That is to say: even we scientists don't have everything figured out. Science has a dynamic cutting edge, and that's a fun way to teach the material. Quantum Mechanics classes at MIT begin by covering the period from the 1890s to the 1930s. It was a time of discovery after discovery. Being led through that path of discovery helped me experience, for the first time, the perpetual sequence of revelations at the cutting edge of knowledge. That course energized my passion for science and propelled me into PhD work.
Let us help your child today. Ask him or her if they like science class. If they seem disinterested with it, ask your tutor to share some stories from the cutting edge, or maybe a historical note or two about interesting scientists. Just because class can be boring doesn't mean science has to be.
By now, your child has gotten back into the flow of school, and you're running your various routines, probably at a frantic pace. It can be hard to keep track of everything, so, once again, let me be a helpful reminder: Talk to your child about their homework and classes!
I ask this for many reasons, first and foremost, because they probably want to tell you. Either they are frustrated with a class and a teacher and would like to vent, or they may have had an interesting question for homework in a class or learned some cool new fact. In any case, it doesn't hurt just to check in!
Let me share a story about one of our biology students, and one of our great tutors, Paul Minor. This student was falling a little behind in biology and having trouble paying attention in class. For some reason, science just wasn't that interesting being tossed at you from the front of a 25 person classroom. Enter Paul, one of our great tutors, and a PhD Candidate in Biology at Caltech. Paul spends every day in the lab on the cutting edge of biology and, after he and the student had been working for only a month, we got a followup call. It was from this child's father, who was raving because his son was now so interested in biology.
That's the H-bar difference that comes from using only the highest quality math and science tutors. Our tutors don't just know the high school math and science, they know the college math and science and they also generally know cutting edge math and science across many disciplines. It's this ability to connect ideas across various levels that can really capture the imagination of a child. Friction isn't that interesting as it's taught in physics classrooms... but just this year multiple influential papers have investigated friction laws at very small scales.
That is to say: even we scientists don't have everything figured out. Science has a dynamic cutting edge, and that's a fun way to teach the material. Quantum Mechanics classes at MIT begin by covering the period from the 1890s to the 1930s. It was a time of discovery after discovery. Being led through that path of discovery helped me experience, for the first time, the perpetual sequence of revelations at the cutting edge of knowledge. That course energized my passion for science and propelled me into PhD work.
Let us help your child today. Ask him or her if they like science class. If they seem disinterested with it, ask your tutor to share some stories from the cutting edge, or maybe a historical note or two about interesting scientists. Just because class can be boring doesn't mean science has to be.
Best Regards,
-Evans Boney
CEO H-bar Tutoring
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Starting The Year Off Right
Dear Parents,
Another school year is beginning, and it's time for some back to school reminders. Remember, if your child can keep up with the homework at the beginning of the year, it'll make getting the grades you want that much easier! To help your children get and stay ready for school, make sure they:
-Get plenty of sleep (at least 6 hours, preferably ~8)
-Eat a good breakfast (even just a bowl of cereal is better than nothing)
-Keep track of assignments on one calendar (a google calendar can allow them to get email reminders of homework)
-Read for 30 minutes a night. Nothing improves vocabulary like regular reading.
If you find your child begins falling behind in some classes in any case, don't let it get too far! Call a tutor as soon as you notice a particularly bad test, or hear your child complaining they don't understand something (if you can't help explain it to them). Once enough bad grades pile up, all the tutoring in the world can't change the past.
Along those lines, let me share with you a story of a student we currently have with us. This high school senior started working with H-bar after his junior year calculus class started to wear him down. He was used to getting math problems right, and finally hit the wall when during calculus when the operations piled one on top of another. He had fallen from being an A student to failing a couple of quizzes, and eventually his class average was down to a C. He came to us a little before Thanksgiving, and by Christmas, he was back to getting B's. By the end of the year, his class average was back to a B, and he was back on top of the material. He'll be getting credit for that calculus class at most colleges next year, giving him a leg up on many other students.
Please let us help your child. H-bar Tutoring hires only the highest quality student tutors from across the area. Our basic strengths are at our core: math and science. The majority of our tutors are math and science PhD students, and we work with science hands on every day. Why get a math or science tutor who is an out of work screenwriter (as is the case in some competing agencies) when you could get a math or science tutor who is a... mathematician or scientist?
Best Regards,
-Evans Boney
CEO H-bar Tutoring
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