The play, about a university lecturer who tutors a working class hairdresser, will begin at the Liverpool Playhouse in February.
For one hour a week, Shefena tutors a small class of younger friends and neighbours in the basics of reading and writing.
Of course, you learn at least as much tutoring a class as you do from taking it, so it worked out in the end.
The second part took place in an interactive classroom setting in which two medical students (usually a man and a woman) tutored one class.
A college history major might learn something by tutoring a local middle school class that's studying the Underground Railroad.
Mahesh Kumar, a 21-year-old student, was heading home from a tutoring class when a bomb went off. "I heard a huge sound and something hit me, I fell down, and somebody brought me to the hospital," said Kumar, who suffered shrapnel wounds.
Teachers use the same methods they experienced as tutees to tutor a few students in their class, one at a time.
If you plan on hiring a tutor or taking a class to prep for either exam this summer or fall, be sure to ask your high school counseling office whom they recommend.
Managing status rivalries, negotiating group dynamics, understanding social norms, navigating the distinction between self and group — these and other social tests impose cognitive demands that blow away any intense tutoring session or a class at Yale.
Look into tutors, and/or drop a class.
Last week it was revealed that the University of Cincinnati and Virginia Tech football programs were fining players for disciplinary reasons, including missing a team breakfast, or a tutoring session, skipping a class, drawing a personal foul penalty, etc.
