Articles for tag: Motivating Students, Tutoring Business

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Tutoring: The Most Lucrative Teen Business

Sick of grumbling back people’s orders at McDonald’s? If you’ve got your dreams set on a specific college, they’re always looking for people who take the initiative. Starting a teen business is a great way to do just that, as well as it makes money, and you can feel good at your job. In this ...

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The Benefits of Cooperative Learning

Constructivist theories of learning propose that students should discover information for themselves, developing and questioning knowledge as necessary. Social learning theorists suggest that learning is heavily influenced by interaction with, and input from other individuals. A highly effective teaching strategy known as cooperative learning fuses these two perspectives of learning, taking a group discovery approach ...

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The Role of Motivation in Education

Few things are more important in educating a child than motivation. Teachers must be motivated to teach well. Students must be motivated to learn. In the early years of education, motivation comes easy. Children are naturally inclined to be curious and enthusiastic about learning new things. As childhood turns into adolescence, however motivation wanes. At ...

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The Life of a NYC Public School Teacher

Teaching in New York City is not for everyone. Sometimes you don’t have enough supplies, your principal only cares about standardized testing and half of your students don’t come to school. At the end of the day, you still need to teach! “Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.” – Assata Shakur ...