When a student is having difficulty in school, intervening sooner than later can make a world of difference.
Though hard to believe, the school year is nearly halfway over. As the holiday season quickly approaches, your elementary student will soon receive his or her second report card, which serves as an even more revealing indication of academic performance than the first.
It's report card season, which means by now your child has likely received or will soon receive his or her first report card of the year.
One question that is often asked by parents we encounter is what to do when their child receives a bad report card?
These days, helping your student strengthen his or her test-taking skills takes on new meaning if you live in a state that has adopted the Common Core State Standard' and the standards' newly aligned assessment tests.
It's easy to tell that a child needs tutoring when he or she continues to receive one poor report card after the next, but there are a number of other less obvious signs that parents shouldn't ignore.
Retrieval practice is a form of memorization that goes something like this:
It's Sunday night, and once again your teen has put off a big school project "due tomorrow" until the last minute. If frantic trips to the library or the office supply store are all too familiar, you're likely dealing with a procrastination problem. It is possible to help your student change, however. Here are a few ideas to help your teen overcome procrastination: