The Tutorfair Foundation - Imdads Story

The Tutorfair Foundation - Imdad's Story Imdad is a student at Paddington Academy, who is now in his final year of sixth form. Imdad needed some help and extra support when preparing to re-take his Maths AS-level. Tom L, volunteered through the Tutorfair Foundation to help. Tom is one of Tutorfair’s top tutors and holds a Masters in Mathematics from Oxford University. Tom is currently working on an innovative software project alongside his tutoring work. Imdad is incredibly appreciative of Tom’s help, and has written a glowing review about his time with Tom. Imdad writes about his help from top tutor, Tom L In my second year of A-levels, I required some top-up classes for Maths A-level and Tutorfair put me in touch with Tom. He has been a fantastic tutor from the start, as he has helped me with my A2 Maths and he has also helped me to retake my AS Maths Exams. He has helped me improve my Mathematical thinking skills which has led me to go from the bottom of my class to the second best Mathematician in the whole year group. Tom’s maths tutoring also helped boost my Physics scores too. Thank you Tom! Imdad has now been appointed head boy at Paddington Academy and in his own words, he is now the “second best mathematician in the whole year group”. All of us here at Tutorfair were incredibly impressed with Imdad, so much so that we’ve offered him an internship. This summer Imdad will come and learn alongside our world class tech team, as he expressed a huge amount of interest in computer science. Thank you to all the students who use Tutorfair to find a great tutor, and another big thank you to all our volunteer tutors (just like Tom!). These Volunteers give their time through the Tutorfair Foundation to students who can’t afford tutoring and our foundation students’ benefit hugely from this extra help and support. Here is what Imdad had to say about Tutorfair Foundation: Imdad’s thoughts on the Tutorfair Foundation Tutorfair offers a great opportunity for all young people to find their inner spark in their chosen subjects.  Tutorfair is amazing because it offers tutors to students of all socio-economic backgrounds.  Personally this has benefitted me much more than I thought it would and I am very grateful for the support that I would not have been able to access without Tutorfair.  My Tutor for Maths A-level has helped take me from struggling in my maths class to being the second best in my school year.  I am now set to go to University next year and this wouldn’t have been possible without Tutorfair!  Thank you and I hope that one day I can become a Tutor for you too! Tomos (Teach First Director and Mentor) thoughts on Tutorfair Tutorfair have an excellent business model that is supporting young people from all backgrounds to achieve success in their academic studies.  I have been impressed with the organisation and speed of response in finding high quality tutors to support young people from backgrounds that do not normally have access to high quality tutoring.  The tutors have made a significant difference to the academic grades of the young people that I work with and this has a profound effect on their ability to progress to University and increase their access to life changing careers. If you think a private maths tutor is what you need to boost your learning, like Imdad, then follow one of these links for maths tuition and search using your postcode. We have maths tutors for all levels, including A-level maths tuition, GCSE maths tuition and Degree maths tuition.

Tips From an Irvine Academic Tutor 5 Apps for ESL Students

Tips From an Irvine Academic Tutor 5 Apps for ESL Students Tips From an Irvine Academic Tutor: 5 Apps for ESL Students Tips From an Irvine Academic Tutor: 5 Apps for ESL Students These days there are students from all around the world learning in US classrooms. These students will find it challenging to take all of their classes in English and can benefit from any extra help to improve their English language skills so that their academic and social life becomes easier. There are tons of apps out there for ESL students that they can use to practice on their own or in the classroom. Regardless of the students age or skill level, ESL apps can make school life easier for both student and teacher. 1 SentenceBuilder for iPad Sentence builder is aimed towards students in elementary school. This app helps students create sentences that are grammatically correct and focuses on connector work. There was a huge part of American English and can help a student speak and write more clearly. When students are learning English they can benefit from images, and this app offers several pictures to help students create sentences around. The app also offers animation and audio clips to make the experience more fun. SentenceBuilder has three levels to help students encounter more challenging content as they progress. $5.99. 2 Intro to Letters, by Montessorium This app is aimed towards students of varying ages and allows users to record their own voices and save the recordings for future study sessions. The instructions for the recording studio portion of the app can be translated into over 40 languages. Children can benefit from this app by working on basic consonants and vowels, or ABCs, phonics, and the basics of the English language. $4.99. 3 Conversation English Conversation English represents basic situational English in a cell phone text format. There are over 20 situational/conversational English scenarios. One of the most important things for ESL students is to become fluent and to understand idioms and slang, topics covered throughout this app’s lessons. Each lesson contains elements of the following five skill sets: conversation listening, conversation reading, vocabulary, comprehension, and sentence completion. $2.99. 4 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5th Edition This app presents definitions in plain language English and provides photos and images to help ESL students understand the correct usage of the word or term. The dictionary offers over 200,000 words, terms, and phrases to help student vastly improve their vocabulary. This app also highlights words that are most commonly used in the English language, helping ESL students choose which synonym they need to get their point across and become fluent. ESL students studying for the SAT or ACT may benefit from the academic word list, which is geared towards students looking for improvement in the academic environment. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English also offers vocabulary words from colloquial English to help students understand how American Speakers talk in everyday common conversations and eventually improve fluency. This app is very expensive as compared to other apps and is priced at $29.99. 5 Hello-Hello Complete This app offers 30 lessons on conversational English to help students improve their speaking skills. It also offers 1,000 vocab words to help users progress through their English language vocabulary. To keep users interested, this app offers animations and interactive elements. Students will also be able to create their own customized notes that they can save and come back to later for review. This app is free to Hello-Hello subscribers. Tutoring “English as a Second Language” (ESL) students requires a specific type of background; a type of background our ESL tutors have! Call us today to learn why our Orange County ESL tutors are the best in SoCal. All blog entries, with the exception of guest bloggers, are written by Tutor Nerds. Are you an education professional? If so, email us at pr@tutornerds.com for guest blogging and collaborations. We want to make this the best free education resource in SoCal, so feel free to suggest what you would like to see us write.