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By Nicholas Hessing College challenges students to structure their time and develop multi-tasking skills. Among courses, extra curriculars, family, athletics, and social engagements, student athletes can feel overwhelmed, subsequently neglecting some of their tasks to meet others. Tutors can help student athletes to manage their academic responsibilities by working with them to design a study […]

By Nicholas Hessing You graduated from FSU with a B.S. in Food and Nutrition. How did you transition to working with student athletes in your career? So funny enough, initially when I went to college my intent was to be a an elementary school teacher. I had a change of heart after my first semester […]

By Nicholas Hessing If you attended the Science Roundtable last spring semester you probably remember T.E.A.: Teach, Exemplify, Assess. While this strategy works best with conceptual understanding such as graphing quadratic formulas or calculating vectors, it can also be extended to other topics such as writing or analyzing historical events.    T.E.A. sums up the […]

By Nicholas Hessing We all have some experience with video chat.  Whether over Skype or Facetime, video chatting allows us to interact more deeply than a simple voice call.  It connects us to our families (and more importantly pets) while away at college and enables us to visually communicate; I can’t tell you how often […]

5 Basic Steps for Assisting Math Students: Always look at the problem in the book. Don’t rely on students to set it up correctly – after all, they’re still learning! Ask student to explain the procedure s/he is using to solve the problem. You can troubleshoot and listen for incorrect logic or procedures at that […]

There’s more to tutoring than just conveying information. It’s also about connecting with your students and a big part of this is nonverbal communication. According to experts, a substantial portion of our communication is nonverbal. Every day, we respond to thousands on nonverbal cues and behaviors including postures, facial expression, eye gaze, gestures, and tone […]

We’re a little over halfway through the semester so things are starting to get tense. You can see the finish line, yet it’s still extremely far away. It’s okay… we’re almost there! But in the meantime, here are some tips for both you and your students in dealing with this stressful time. What is Academic […]

How many times have you walked into a session and the student says “I just need you to look over my paper”? Well, we all know that it’s never that simple. Adequately looking over a paper takes precision, attentiveness, and the capability of reading a text from multiple perspectives. READING AS A COMMON READER When […]

Imagine this… you walk into a session, your student tells you that they have a paper due soon, they log on to the computer, open a new Word Document, anddddd that’s all they’ve got. What would you do? Where would you start? How can you help? Drawing blank when working on writing assignments is common, […]

I’m sure we can all recall a moment during an exam in which we closed our eyes attempting to visualize the correct answer the way it was on the pages we studied. Most of us envy those with that ability – more commonly known as a “photogenic memory.” What exactly is memory? Memory is a […]