There are times when attending class and studying your textbook just aren’t enough to help you to understand the class material. 【小题1】 When you study with a tutor, you are able to get one-on-one attention and interaction where you can ask any questions you may have and focus on parts of the material that you really struggle with. 【小题2】 If you follow them, you’ll surely understand the material better and pass your class.

The most important thing when you study with a tutor is to attend class. This is where most of your learning should come from, not your tutor. Keep in mind that your tutor is there to help you with the specific problems you are struggling with and not to teach you all of the material from the class. When you attend class, make sure that you pay attention and take thorough notes to bring back to your tutor. 【小题3】

Before each tutoring session, make a list of questions that you had come up during class and still do not have the answers to. This will not only help your tutor with the direction in which to take their lesson, but it will keep you both from wasting time on material that you do already understand. 【小题4】 Too many times students will go to their tutor and forget what they had questions about.

When you study with a tutor, it’s important that you participate in the session. Don’t just let your tutor talk to you and lecture you. 【小题5】 Instead, ask questions if you do not understand something or need your tutor to expand a little more. If you need something explained in a different way, speak up. Have a discussion with your tutor about the material. Sometimes just talking it out in different ways can make something click where it suddenly all makes sense.

Tips to Create Great Readers

Are great readers born or are they made? Obviously, children don’t enter the world knowing how to understand a text or make a prediction.【小题1】Here are some tips for making children great readers by habit.

【小题2】The most critical moment in reading instruction is when children get something wrong. If the child continues practising the skill incorrectly, he or she will build weaker habits. Intervene (干预) with a targeted question, such as “How does this part of the text help you understand this character?” Doing so can prevent poor habits from taking root and build great ones in their place.

Build habits at the moment of writing. Just like adults, children use writing to gather their thoughts about a text and communicate their ideas to others.【小题3】For example, children can first have a discussion about what they’re reading by answering a focus question in writing: “What is the author trying to teach us in this story?”【小题4】By doing this, you can get a better understanding of what guidance the children will need during the discussion.

Build habits at the moment of reading. Independent reading time is important for any reading programme. It’s a chance for children to put together everything they’ve learnt in reading lessons and fly using their own wings.【小题5】So providing a rich class library and letting children know that they are expected to read for the entire period will ensure their success as lifelong independent readers.

A Harvard study of their graduates over thirty years found that there were only a small percentage (3%) of them who actually wrote down their goals — and these were the most successful! You can be certain that every one of those students had repeatedly heard the value of goal setting. Yet only 3% actually wrote down their goals consistently. Imagine what you can do if you both write down your goals and, then, focus on them consistently, until they are accomplished!

What is it that causes the "New Year’s Resolution Syndrome"? People make resolutions, work hard at them for a few weeks, maybe even a few months, and then forget them. Next year, they make the same New Year’s resolutions. That is the syndrome. So why do so many people do it?

They may be making goals that are too global, and too unrealistic. The elephant analogy (比喻) is still the best one I know of to illustrate good goal setting. "How do you eat an elephant? One spoonful at a time." So it is with goals. Make spoon size goals and accomplish them easily. Once you’ve mastered this, get a bigger spoon!

You may have too many people in your life who consciously or subconsciously are unwilling or unable to support you to reach your goals. Surround yourself with people who want you to have what you want for yourself. Support each other and you’ll all achieve your highest goals. We must be careful not to confuse busyness with progress. Be selective about how you use your time and what you focus on. Success often comes when you know what to leave out, rather than what to include in your life.

Goal setting is like the pig and chicken who were out for a walk in town early one morning. The chicken became really excited when she saw that said "Ham& Eggs, $2.99". She said to the pig "Look, we’ve got double billing again." The pig grunted and said," "That’s all right for you to say. For you, it’s all in a day’s work. For me, it’s total commitment." Goal setting is all in a day’s work. Goal achievement is total commitment.