EzyMath2025-11-06T22:44:17+11:00Posted in All Categories, Coaching, Mentoring & Reflection, Study Habits
“I am finding it difficult to enforce the learning strategies…” I am finding it difficult to enforce the learning strategies Talking Aloud, Back Checking, and Pen to Paper and to explain them in such a way that my students are convinced they are important. 🤔Most importantly the students ..
EzyMath2025-11-07T19:46:57+11:00Posted in All About Exams, Remembering Stuff, Structuring Lessons
My student seems to forget a lot of content needed for tests. Especially when there is a long time between the test and when topics were actually learnt. How can I prepare her for tests so she doesn’t forget things previously learnt? Generally speaking, to maintain memory of ..
EzyMath2025-11-07T20:19:08+11:00Posted in All Categories, Remembering Stuff, Structuring Lessons
One of my students tends to understand a topic one week but forgets most of it the next. Should I administer more regular homework so concepts I teach in class are not forgotten? Homework is quite a specific matter. 🤔 While some students are open to it others ..
EzyMath2025-11-06T21:04:29+11:00Posted in All Categories, Starting Tutoring, Teacher & School Issues
The Student’s Notebook DilemmaThe student's school notebook is empty, she stated that her teacher does not give class notes and only uses the notes from the textbook/worksheet. She student tells me the teacher does not give any notes and i cannot give any notes to her now because ..
EzyMath2025-11-08T02:03:58+11:00Posted in All Categories, Problem Solving & Independence, Senior & High School Learning, Study Habits
Year 12 student: I need to work on improving her problem solving skills/independent learning, as well as her self-belief (such as trying more questions individually before asking). How do I best integrate some of the learning strategies into tutorial sessions for a year 12 student? Depends which learning ..
EzyMath2025-11-06T21:25:20+11:00Posted in All About Exams, Structuring Lessons
One of my students, Sarah, has just performed very poorly in her exam, scoring in the 40s. We’ve been working together for a few months and it seemed to going ok but her performance was FAR below expectations. I’m not sure what to say to the client ..
EzyMath2025-11-07T20:35:06+11:00Posted in All Categories, Organizing Lessons
Our daughter Georgie has been working with David for a few months now and some great progress has been made. We are thinking of taking a break over the holidays but don’t want her to forget all the work. Do you have any policies to do with holidays?A ..
EzyMath2025-11-06T22:02:31+11:00Posted in All About Exams
📚 Student OverviewMy student in year 11 is an extremely competent student and his main issue is speed. I am trying to get him talking aloud and this is helping clear his thoughts a bit but he still pauses for too long in between steps. I will often ..
EzyMath2025-11-05T22:12:36+11:00Posted in All Categories, Organizing Lessons
Impact of Holiday on LearningMy student will be on holiday for 5 weeks, thus missing out on 2 weeks of term 1 and the first week of term 2. Because of this, we are trying to get her ahead in her school maths topics. However this is proving ..
