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Marina Koestler Ruben, MA, is a professional tutor, writer, and editor who works as the official in-house writing tutor at the renowned Sidwell Friends School. She has also privately tutored students K-12 in math, science, history, English, ESL, French, Spanish, and other subjects. She has been näytä lisää published by the Washington City Paper, Smithsonian .com, CNN.com, EducationWeek.org, and McSweeneys.net, and she has appeared on NPR's Talk of the Nation. Marina lives with her husband and daughter in Washington, DC. Visit www.MarinaRuben.com. näytä vähemmän

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How to Tutor Your Own Child builds on the idea that you can and should be academically engaged with your child on a regular basis. With this philosophy in mind, the book contains a multiple ways to engage in this adventure. Most of it is common sense but the Tutor Toolbox tidbits scattered throughout add just the right touch.
Here's a sampling of my favorite questions to ask:
What's new?
What's now?
What's next?
and this tidbit of advice:
"If at any point, the strain it places on your relationship (child/parent) or on the family dynamic outweighs the positives, something is wrong, and you should stop. Tutoring is not torture - it's shared learning."… (lisätietoja)
 
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revslick | 1 muu arvostelu | Dec 31, 2011 |
This book can get you started in tutoring your own child, but I felt that the book spent too much time listing out ideas for whiz-bang field trips that most parents and kids won't have time to do and not enough time on how to build the parent-child tutoring relationship.
 
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michaelwlind | 1 muu arvostelu | Sep 5, 2011 |

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32
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#430,838
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½ 3.5
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2
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3
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1