| This page is called: tutor GO BACK TO THE SAT PAGE Hello, Do you want to become an SAT Tutor? I'm a tutor. Go to COLLEGEPREP, which is dedicated to helping students prepare for life AFTER the SAT and after they arrive at college.....It means more than giving you test-taking tips. Use a terrific program called www.number2.com to prepare for the SAT Recommended web sites Johnson O'Connor testing labs McCrea's method for improving SAT scores Learn SAT Words How to be a better teacher of English In the Middle Ages, educated men walked around the countryside, from castle to castle. When they arrived at a new castle, they asked, "Do you need a tutor?" The castle gate (portcullus) came up. The lord of the castle greeted the educated man and pointed at a large horn. "Yes, this castle needs a tooter. Just stand here and look over the wall for trouble. If you see a gang of thieves, squeeze on the horn to sound the alarm." (Sorry for the simple humor) TUTOR (not a tooter) This page outlines my philosophy about being a tutor. Luia Forbes was my first tutor. She taught me elocution.... through the following tactics: 1. Poem. One of the poems that she asked me to memorize had the following line: "but thy self was so full of very self that there was no room for me." It was called "the Shell." It had another line: "likie a shell, dishabited." 2. Religion and philosophy: She asked me "What is reincarnation?" "Why do bad things happen to good people?" "How else can we explain why some people suffer so much?" (She asked questions that I had not considered at the age of 15). 3. Speak clearly. I was extremely bored but I was impressed by my parents. They really wanted me to learn from another adult, and they trusted me to decide what of value to take from the tutoring sessions. My tutoring services are available for your son or daughter. Standard fees are $40 per hour or $350 for a 10-session run. These smiles are some of the fun that your children will experience during a fun tutoring session. My wife enjoys showing me how to balance work and play. I enjoy teaching her skills like how to drive a motor scooter. I learned a lot from my trip to Costa Rica. I can tell stories about Florida My services I provide suggestions on where to go for more information. I can recommend boarding schools (grades 8 to 12) and a terrific academic counselor JACK RICH 407 295 3312 I can give you my impressions of more than than 30 universities in the USA. I can recommend language schools I can train your child to have skills that will be useful in the future. I can give your child the specific input AS A TUTOR that your child might need. (ELOCUTION) As an SAT test-strategies tutor, I can't give my personal opinions or suggestions. Most parents want me to just improve their child's math skills. Most parents don't want suggestions on "how to prepare for life in college" ..... I can give you a description of aptitudes..... and a rough idea about what aptitudes your child has. JOHNSON O'CONNOR TESTING LABS (nearest one is Atlanta, main center is in New York) http://members.aol.com/jocrf19/ I can teach your child how to teach adults how to speak English www.talkinusa.com I can teach your child how to train friends and others to prepare for the SAT (and become a tutor). My experience I went to Punahou School in Honolulu www.punahou.edu I graduated from a fantastic high school: Aiglon College aiglon.ch I achieved 800 on the MATH SAT and 720 on the VERBAL SAT. I lived in more than 38 countries before becoming a high school teacher. I have ADD which is a variable attention syndrome (Attention Deficit Disorder) -- ask me how I daily seek value from this special condition. I took a year off from college, entered Princeton University, spent sophomore year in France, then worked for 6 years before finishing university at Nova University in Fort Lauderdale. I hold a master's degree in public administration from Florida Atlantic University. I took a remarkable course for training teachers how to teach English to adults. English International, San Francisco A tutor should have plenty of experience with aptitude testing to help parents and student to plan for the future. Here's my experience with one of the best batteries of aptitude tests: Johnson O'Connor in New York. members.aol.com/jocrf19/ Steve McCrea's Scores *** Graphoria 97% Clerical ability, or adeptness at paperwork and dealing with figures and symbols. Color perception The ability to distinguish colors. *** Ideaphoria 99% The ability to produce a flow of ideas. Inductive reasoning 31% The ability to reason from the particular to the general, to form a logical conclusion from scattered facts. *** Analytical reasoning 90% The ability to organize concepts or to arrange ideas in logical sequence. Numerical aptitudes The ability to use numerical information in solving problems and to perform arithmetic operations. Structural Visualization The ability to visualize the structure of three-dimensional forms. Wiggly Block 81% *** Cube 95% Music aptitudes The ability to remember rhythms and tone sequences, and to distinguish between fine differences in pitch. Sound Discrimination C Rhythm Memory 40% Timbre Discrimination 54% *** Tonal Memory A Memory aptitudes The ability to remember designs and numbers, learn new words, and spot changes or irregularities. *** Memory for Design 97% Number Memory 87% Object Observation 80% *** Silograms, Language Learning 100% Design Judgment B Writing Speed B Objective Personality 63% *** Finger dexterity A Right: A Left: A A quickness and accuracy in delicate finger work. *** Tweezer dexterity 90% The ability to work with small tools. Foresight 93% Vocabulary 76% Spelling 24/24 Age 17-2 Approximate number of words known 85,000 8 Aptitudes.... See the suggestions at Johnson O'Connor for the person with many aptitudes. (click on PATTERNS and then click on "many aptitudes") Specific tips How to write better (and how not to teach writing) One of my students told me that she hates writing. She wants to take the SAT soon so that she won't have to write the essay that the new version of the SAT will require. Read these points... (My comments are in small italicized type) What are italics? They are letters that look like they came from Italy. May 16, 2003 Dennis Baron Chronicle of Higher Education Grammar is not the first thing to teach when teaching writing. I'm bothered by essays that are mere reports, not critical analyses; If the essay is just a report, it has no opinion. Give me your opinion and support your opinion with facts. ,,,by essays that are vague and abstract and don't ring true. I become impatient with essays that tell me either more or less than I need to know about the subject. Don't tell me too much and don't stop with just one or two facts. I hate it when writers use big words they can't control. I hate it when writers dumb down their prose because they assume that their reader knows nothing about life on planet Earth. Most paragraphs outside school don't have topic sentences. Most works of prose don't have a thesis statement. A thesis statement announces what you will be writing about.... but if you read a lot of newspaper columns, you will see that some of them start with a situation and describe a problem...and then the writer describes a solution and gives an opinion about it. The main goals in writing is engaging the reader in an interesting conversation. Can you tell me something that happened today or last year that you thought was interesting? Good. Start writing about it. Dennis Baron (a writing professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) ends his composition like this: Every day writing does not follow the standard essay with 5 paragraphs. Everyday writing does not follow a formula. It changes shapes it uses tactics that are sensitive to the context (the tactic changes when you try to use it in another situation)... It helps to give specific details about your life when you discuss your favorite places to eat, but a reader who wants specific details about the "best country in the world" might not need to know about you. Your check list: 1. Give me your opinion 2. Don't make it abstract -- give me specific details. 3. Don't give me too many details. 4. The reader is not stupid. Don't explain everything. 5 Get to the point. 6. Make it interesting -- we're having a conversation. Learn more about WRITING. Now visit the SAT pages SAT WORDS Do you want to become an SAT TUTOR? |
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