AJ Tutoring blog - The Learning Curve

Summer may seem far off, but planning early can turn it from a gap in learning into a launchpad for the next school year. Without a plan, summer can slip by, leaving students scrambling in August. With first semester grades in hand, now is the time to set goals and make plans for how to best ...

What Role Does Reading Play? School is so much more than just memorization of facts and figures, it is preparing students for life and the world beyond the classroom. Reading for fun may seem unrelated to academic success, but research consistently shows it strengthens vocabulary, comprehension, ...

What does math tutoring look like? Having worked as a math tutor for many years, I will be the first one to tell you that math tutoring does not look the same across the board. Since we work with a wide variety of students, we have a wide variety of “typical” math tutoring sessions. A few ...

Every student, especially the smart and motivated ones (yes, you!), has had this thought. Maybe it hits during a struggle with logarithms, while writing an essay on medieval serfdom, or in the middle of memorizing French verb conjugations. If you’ve felt that frustration, you are not alone. ...