October 24th, 2011
The transition from high school to college can be an exciting time. College means more freedom: from your family, to choose your area of study, and in your extracurricular activities. However, with freedom comes responsibility that many students are unprepared for. Being on your own means that there is no one there to make sure you’ve done your homework and remind you to study for your upcoming chemistry exam. Thus, it is crucial during your first year of college that you develop a study system that will keep you on track and get you through what could turn out to be the best four years of your life.
Different study systems work for different students—there is no universal “best” way to study. Some people study best in groups, others prefer to work alone. Figure out what works for you. If you know that being in groups can be too distracting for you, avoid them. Remember: if you don’t get your studying done, you’ll end up missing the really fun social opportunities. Likewise, if you get too tempted to quit on your homework for a Law & Order marathon when you’re by yourself in your dorm, get out there and find people who are in the same boat. Ask your lab partner if he wants to get together for a study session in the library after class. Check with your roommate: maybe she’s a chemistry wiz and she’s in the mood to brush up on thermodynamics.
Once you’ve figured out your best method of study, stick with it. Set up regular study group meetings or set aside a designated homework time for yourself that you never deviate from. In no time, you’ll be in the habit of studying effectively and acing your classes!
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October 23rd, 2011
Ask yourself if you would drive to an unknown location without the comfort of your personal GPS giving you turn-by-turn directions in a sultry voice? Now imagine making that wrong turn -you’re late for the premier of the new Bill Nye -The Science Guy movie. Unless you’re feeling a bit adventurous and spontaneous like a negative delta G thermodynamics reaction, you wouldn’t risk getting lost. That is where, we, the tutors step into the scene to help guide students to success.
This past September, we began tutoring students enrolled in the AVID Program at Peninsula High School. In these short few weeks, we have seen tremendous growth in these students. Every lesson starts with an enthusiastic cry from a student eager to announce his level 3 question that he or she is extremely proud to present. They may not always have the answer to eachother’s questions, but they work hard, cooperate and dissect the problem until the answer is discovered. Above all, the students recognize that the tutors’ duty is to facilitate the discussion rather than regurgitate information and thus, they take it upon themselves to be proactive and independent learners.
Succeeding in school, and in life, takes more than just book smarts. Organization, time management and prioritization are few of the plethora of study skills we practice and preach at AVID. We all know how easy life can be if someone is there to hold our hand and walk us through life – prevent us from making silly mistakes while encouraging and nurturing our curiosity. The tutors at AVID and the Hut are here for that very reason; to serve as your personal GPS. So save yourself from unnecessary stress and worry and stop by Study Hut for a personalized guide to your school and life thereafter.
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October 11th, 2011
You sit, minding your own business. Suddenly, you feel a twinge of unease crawl up your spine. A feeling as if someone, or something, is watching you. You shake it off. Clearly, you’re just being paranoid right? You look back down at your desk. And then… IT HAPPENS. Suddenly, tiny Tialde, mild-mannered 2nd grader is throwing paper around the office, laughing hysterically, and running out of here as fast as he can!
WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!
You just found yourself victim to one of the Study Hut’s new competitions: who can keep their room the cleanest in exchange for pizza! Actually, you’ve found yourself victim to the inevitable aftermath of such a challenge: who can mess up everyone else’s room enough so they don’t get pizza! This, the first of many new challenges being formed around the Hut, is part of a new initiative starting up this semester. Now, at first glance, this may seem like meaningless prankerism (trust me, it’s a word) and time-wasting nonsense. But it’s actually a piece of what sets the Study Hut apart.
You’re children spend all day in a very ordered environment. They’re told where to sit, when to stand, how to speak, and what to do. To be fair, in a classroom of 30 children, such order is necessary. But the Hut doesn’t exist just to replicate school. We’re not here to just provide an environment that students just have to come to due to bad grades. We’re here to provide an environment that students want to come to (to help improve bad grades!) Initiatives like this promote better communication among tutors, which leads to better tutoring, and smarter students. And involving the students, like we did Tialde, promotes the idea that this is a place where that they can look forward to coming too. Most students here know most, if not all the tutors: not just the one they work with. They come here because the Hut is a place where people know you, get the work done, and have help in the process.
Plus, you get to occasionally throw paper around in exchange for pizza. That’s awesome.
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October 11th, 2011
Tutoring AVID at high schools in Palos Verdes is such a fulfilling job. I work with students who are eager to learn and enjoy working together to solve problems. We break into small groups and focus on specific topics that the AVID students are having trouble with. During the tutorials in AVID classes I encourage students to help each other work through problems and they often find that they are not the only one struggling with that topic. Each tutor works with one group and provokes discussion about the problem. Step by step we work through each question on a white board, leaving no question unanswered.
I believe that students can excel through collaboration with their classmates in a way that they can’t in a conventional school environment with 30 kids learning from one teacher. From my experience as a student, I have found that the best way to truly understand a concept is when you can thoroughly explain it to others. Students find pride and confidence in helping their classmates understand tough topics in school and that is why AVID programs and tutorials play such a key role in preparing students for higher education.
Most schools in the area have a really good AVID program, including Redondo Union, Palos Verdes, Peninsula, South Torrance, West Torrance, San Pedro, and Mira Costa. A few middle schools (such as PVIS and MBMS) also have programs that help students adjust to the rigors of school at the next level. No matter the school, students must apply, interview, and be accepted in order to take the class, ensuring that all of the kids are committed to their academic success. Having an environment full of dedicated students that you see every day goes a long way to improving the general attitude of all high school students.
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October 10th, 2011
High school is a fun, challenging, and decisive point in one’s life. Academically, it’s the first time that your performance in classes will follow you and affect your future. It is also a time of great personal growth, and a time of starting to accept one’s responsibilities as a young adult. Because of all these rapid changes in an adolescent’s life, high school can be quite challenging. Through practicing with a sports team, hanging out with friends, and finding new hobbies and muses, finding the time and direction to do well in the often difficult classes packed into the four years can be quite challenging. This is where the Study Hut comes in. All of us tutors have gone through high school—we know what those years were like, even if it seems as though we’re too old to remember. The Study Hut is also a very community based organization, and the founders Rob and SP who grew up around Manhattan Beach, and many of tutors, know the greater Manhattan Beach area and its schools very well.
So Mira Costa high school students—let us help you get through these fruitful and challenging years. Study Hut has tutors proficient in everything from the mandatory mathematics of high school, to the more advanced AP courses of the sciences. Let us help you organize your planner, and make sure you’re armed with the best knowledge possible to do well in your classes and ace your tests.
High school is also the time for the SAT and ACT—those scary three lettered standardized tests which colleges and universities use as criteria for acceptance into their schools. At the Study Hut, we’ve got you covered. There are personalized SAT and ACT courses designed to teach you the fundamentals of test taking, so you know exactly what you’re going to get, and how to handle it during the test. Although challenging, there’s a method to these tests, and you too can learn to ace it.
So Mira Costa—come to the Study Hut… you’ll be happy you did.
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October 4th, 2011
With each new year there are more and more high school students applying to the colleges of their dreams hoping that they can look good enough to at least one of their choice schools admission board to be allowed to attend that college. High school students already have a tough enough time going through their regular course work, playing sports, participating in clubs, workings jobs, having a social life and just being a teenager. However now often times even all of this is not enough for the student to be admitted to the college of their dreams, the students now must take college level, Advanced Placement (AP) courses to have a shot at competing with the other students across the country and the world. These AP courses can range from Calculus, Chemistry, US History, English, Spanish and many, many more and have much larger and more difficult work load that many high school students have never encountered before. And after completing all the course work for the school the student must pass a final AP test to prove that they learned enough in the class, this puts an immense weight on the students as they know that all their hard work throughout the year could be for not if they are unable to pass the final test.
Yet, for all these challenges that AP courses present to the students, in the day we live in they are extremely important if not essential for students to enter the college of their dreams. Last year the incoming freshman at UCLA had taken an average of 7 Advanced Placement or Honors courses between their 10th and 12th grade years. These AP courses have added benefits apart from helping students get into colleges, as they prepare students for what a college level course may be like, challenge the more advanced students and help them from becoming bored with course works and if students are able to pass the AP they are sometimes able to forgo some college courses and save time and money at University. AP courses while more rigorous and challenging for students pay immense benefits that cannot be overlooked. AP classes may not be for every student but if a student feels able to keep up with the course work and pass the final test with or without extra help, the classes are completely worth it in the present and definitely in the future.
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September 29th, 2011
I’m sure there are plenty of tutoring spots in Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach and countless more in the south bay but I’m in inclined to believe that few can measure up to The Study Hut in Manhattan Beach. Many parents struggle with where to send their children to get some help. They try to give their children a leg up so they maybe they won’t have to struggle as much in the future. The choices for giving a child an advantage can be mind boggling at times. There are so many places making claims about improving grades and how they will accomplish this amazing transformation in your child. They make promises of making them an “A” student over night. The truth is there is no magic formula. There is no making your child an overnight genius. Change comes with work and constant work to boot. The work is a communal project; it can’t come in a tutor session alone. Now, this is the place where the real separation comes into play. Other places say they will change the culture your child has developed but only care about what occurs in the tutoring session only. However the dedicated folks at the study hut aka the hut make sure to communicate with the parents on the work which is accomplished and needs to be accomplished on a nightly basis. They call home and let parents know their child still have 3 hours worth of work left and work to develop strategies to make sure this isn’t the norm. They make sure the culture created at the hut also becomes the culture the student sees at home. Because it takes a village to raise a child, no matter how big or small the village might be.
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September 26th, 2011
A mind starts learning from the moment a child is born. This is why future skills and important knowledge should be passed on to a young mind as early as possible. Math is one of the most important subjects for growing minds to learn and master to do well in future schooling and in all of life. Math is seen all around us every day from the classroom, to the boardroom and on the bus home. But without the proper building blocks and starting points of a student’s mathematical journey one can become lost in an immense sea of numbers, letters and shapes without a life raft. This is why it is important to begin planting the seed of mathematics early in a child’s life, even if it is as basic as learning adding and subtracting or the nines multiplication trick from an early age will give these children the leg up that is necessary to do well in school and advance in all aspects of life.
Once these basic building blocks of mathematics are learned and mastered the student is able to move onto the more complicated concepts and ideas. Starting with basic algebra and geometry all the way to the most advanced calculus and theoretical physics the basic skills of adding, subtracting, dividing and multiplying are used in every aspect of the work. If these building skills are mastered then the world is the student’s oyster and they can grow to learn any aspect of math possible, with the appropriate hard work and dedication. However, it is never to late to learn these basic building blocks because if you were to start with some of the most advanced calculus and not know how to add and subtract all would be lost.
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September 22nd, 2011
Currently in the U.S. 35.5 million people’s first language in the home is Spanish, and the number is increasing daily. This is why it’s very important to know the language these days. What better place to start learning than in high school? In high school we are forced to learn a language, which of course comes with benefit to us, if we pick the one that will be used most often. What is the probability of speaking Japanese or French on a daily basis in the U.S., if your family is not from either of these places? Probably slim to none. The chances for using Spanish on a daily basis are more probable, as more people are bringing it out of the house and speaking it in the workplace. Also, the more enmeshed our cultures become with Hispanic culture, the greater the need for our increased knowledge and awareness of the Spanish language.
As teachers and tutors, we have a responsibility to the youth of America to instill a language, and the positive points of knowing Spanish as a second language. Whether it’s from the basic greetings of “hola, me llamo . . .” (Hello, my name is…), to the complex of being able to say what you did last night, any little bit may prove to be useful. Here at Study Hut we strive to enforce the learning of a new language in terms and ways that are easier to understand. We employ the use of flash cards, and some of us even go as far as to role-play and use different voices. We like to make it fun, because that’s what learning a new language should be! Adios!
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September 19th, 2011
It is not uncommon to have your local public schools fill each classroom to the brim. In a sea of 30 plus students, it’s a wonder that kids tend to fall through the cracks. The curriculum is set for each grade and the teacher attacks the lesson plans daily. In the process of introducing materials to students, a few common trends occur. The brainiest of the class rise to the top, and the material is easy for them. The lower regions of the concur phenomenon are lost and require special attention in order to not fall behind. The public school system provides after school programs, tutoring and extra time for the ones who fall behind. So where do the brainiest pupils go? They tend to finish before the class and end up staring at the ceiling, or paper. At times they tend to help other pupils who stare at them in a bewildered stare after given a recent assignment.
As recent college graduates, our tutors have experienced both extremes. We know either one is not preferred and honestly quite extreme. Here at the Hut we accept both types of students. In one corner the brainiest students come in and we push them even further than they thought they were capable of. We do this so well that in many cases they go home pondering how we managed to stump them. A particular student who has recently has been striving to be a better scholarly example is our very own Asher. Having fallen through the cracks at his school, we took this first grader under our wing and amplified his skills with every hour session. We are proud of Asher and are so very content with his improvement over the past few sessions. Upon entering first grade this year, his teacher noticed his improvement in math and has now placed him in the second grade math class! He is rock star here at the Hut!!! Students such as these are the types of students we love to help. I mean after all, we strive to better your student or bust.
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