Sentence examples for tutoring someone from inspiring English sources

Or you might simply donate your skill — whether in baking for a local shelter, tutoring someone in math, or dog-walking at an animal shelter — or collect something like books, coats or toys for a drive.

"I know actors who don't blink twice at tutoring someone for six weeks, getting an acting job and just dumping the clients," says Daniel Armstrong, an actor and director.

For example, one study asked people how many hours they'd be willing to spend tutoring someone immediately and in the future and how much time they thought their classmates could donate immediately.

Choose one thing, be it volunteering at a shelter, tutoring someone who needs it, or simply being kind to a family member that doesn't really deserve it.

And after finishing this 6-week, 18-hour course, they will be asked to commit at least an hour and a half once a week for the next year to tutor someone in basic literacy or in English as a second language.

But studies suggest that two elements are important during childhood: the perceived role a child has in the family; and the apparent benefit a child receives when he or she tutors someone else, like a younger sibling.

If you have tutored someone, you have trained someone.

In the schools that have adopted these tutoring relationships, someone with deep knowledge of a process tutors someone who wants to learn that process.

If you are having difficulty in a humanities or social science course, you may be eligible to request a private tutor, someone to work with you every week to discuss the readings, lectures, and homework assignments.

For example, we learn that social pain involves the same neural pathways as physical pain and can be lessened with Tylenol; that our brain's "resting state" is not very resting, and is constantly monitoring our social surroundings; and that we learn best when we engage our social neural pathways, so that preparing to tutor someone else can help students learn material better.

So we had him tutored by someone who prepared college students for the SAT.