Learn About JavaScript Tutoring

Learn About JavaScript TutoringWhen we speak of JavaScript tutoring, we are generally referring to one of two topics. The first of these is for people who want to learn more about this particular programming language, and the second is for those who would like to use it in their own business.Learning JavaScript will certainly take time and effort. But it is definitely worth it, if you are serious about using it. It is a powerful tool that has a lot of useful applications.One good thing about it is that it can be used as a test and evaluation tool. For example, you can go online and compare the performance of different sites. This is done by the application of JavaScript to the websites. While the results are basically not that important, if they show that a website is performing well, it could be an important factor for some employers.Some companies have websites that allow users to submit feedback regarding the performance of a certain product. So, if you submit your own review, thi s can also be used for evaluating the performance of a particular product.In order to better understand JS, it is necessary to understand how it works. JavaScript functions much like a computer language, where a program is put on a webpage. There are different methods of programming in this language that work on a lot of different systems and functions.For example, you can make the program run only on the browser that you are using. This makes it very convenient, as you do not have to download it to the other systems, or wait for it to be installed on other systems.If you decide to do your own JavaScript tutoring, there are many different resources available on the Internet. You can find sample code for learning the language, as well as individual notes from others who have used it. All of these materials are important to help you master the language.

Ask a Private School Admissions Expert Emily Glickman

Ask a Private School Admissions Expert Emily Glickman Varsity Tutors brings you insider tips and advice straight from nationally recognized admissions experts. Emily Glickman is the founder and president of Abacus Guide Educational Consulting, a leading private school consulting service in New York. She currently serves as an alumni admissions interviewer for Columbia Universityand is a vastly well-known expert on private school admissions. Emily has also been featured in several prestigious publications such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. VT: What is the typical timeline for private school admissions? Emily: Families should start to think about private school admissions about a year and a half before a child starts a new school.While the private school admissions process officially starts right after Labor Day, advanced planning means you have more time to research and sometimes visit schools, study for required exams, and improve your familys and students admissions profile. If your child applies to private school, plan for a busy fall!Usually, private schools upload applications to their websites in late August or early September.Then its a sprint:essays, interviews, testing, references, and transcripts.Before you know it, its the New Year and its almost time for February or March decisions. VT: What is the typical process that admissions officers go through to evaluate applications? Emily: Private school admissions directors review a students whole profile: parent and (for middle school and high school) student essays, interviews, school reports, and teacher recommendations. VT: What are the most important things children need to have represented on their applications? Emily: Kids need to seem like they will be successful in a new school.Every admissions officer likes an articulate, friendly, easy-going student with a solid academic record. VT: What are common mistakes parents make when applying to these programs? Emily: Sometimes parents think they need to snow admissions directors with extensive talk about their vast real estate holdings, multiple doctorates from the worlds best universities, and thirty board memberships.While private schools like generous, community-minded people, nobody likes a showoff. VT: How should parents go about determining the culture of a private school, and whether it would be a good fit for their children? Emily: When parents evaluate private schools, they should start with an open mind and a willingness to look at a number of schools. In New York City, its a sellers market, so buyers need to give themselves many possible options.Families should go to school-sponsored events and talk to current parents. Some of my clients have found YouTube videos of school events and the school newspaper to be good ways to ferret out real information that you dont get from marketing materials. VT: How important are standardized test scores when admissions decisions are being made? Emily: For NYC kindergarten admission, ERB scores are critical.I find that for middle school and high school, students grades carry more weight and sometimes will mean more than a disappointing ISEE or SSAT score. VT: What tips do you have in regards to ISEE prep, SSAT prep, and preparation for other standardized assessments that private schools might require? Emily: If students want to have the best possible choice of schools, they should prep.In my experience, prepping can dramatically improve students scores.That said, some parents want to prep years in advance!That is too much.Children are only children for a short period.Test prep should be practiced in moderation, and only when it is productive. VT: What are the most important things parents need to have well represented about themselves when meeting with admissions officers? Emily: Parents need to seem like pleasant, community-minded, thoughtful people who will reflect well on the school. VT: How does networking and having in-school connections affect one's chances of admission? Emily: At almost all schools, some more than others, networking matters.Connections help, especially when a student is qualified. In many ways, NYC private schools are like country clubs.If you know someone there, youve proven yourself to be their kind of person. VT: How can a student best prepare for admissions interviews? Emily: I work directly with students and coach them on how best to answer questions.For kids who want to prepare on their own, my best advice is to show your best self.Its not the admissions officers business if your favorite activity is playing Xbox while scarfing nachos. Instead, discuss your favorite school subject or your interest in American biography. Check out Abacus Guide Educational Consulting for more information or get in touch with Emily at info@abacusguide.com The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent the views of Varsity Tutors.

ACT Science Extracting Signals Through Noise to Improve Your Score

ACT Science Extracting Signals Through Noise to Improve Your Score ACT SAT Prep and College Admissions Blog “Ever thought about taking the ACT?” “Yeah, I've thought about it...the questions are supposed to be more straightforward than the ones on the SAT.” “Then why not give it a shot?” “It has that Science Section! There's no way I can get through that!” The ACT Science Section is perhaps the most misunderstood section on any of the main college entrance exams, and it's intimidating enough to scare many students away from taking an otherwise very manageable test. But it doesn't need to be. Perhaps the most insidious aspect of the ACT Science Section is actually something very simple: its name. In fact, the Science Section is barely about science at all, but about data: charts, tables, graphs, and your ability to read them. In much the same way as a reading comprehension question or a long word problem in math, the Science Section tests your ability to extract signals through noise. Can you quickly find your way through a mess of informationâ€"information that you may or may not needâ€"to find the pieces of data that give you the right answer? From CollegeVine: The Science section of the ACT consists of 40 multiple-choice questions that you’ll answer over the course of 35 minutes.Just like the other sections of the ACT, the score that you receive on the Science section of the ACT will be a scaled score ranging from 1-36. This number is scaled from your raw score, which is the number of questions that you got correct on the Science section and each section of the exam is weighted equally. Let's look at a sample ACT passage: See how “noisy” that passage is? Charts, graphs, tablesâ€"all thrown at you at once, and it's almost a guarantee that you've never encountered this science before. To make matters worse, there are unfamiliar terms, acronyms, all sorts of chaos that you need to filter out in order to make sense of the passage. So how do you do that? First, you don't really need to “read” the passage straight through at all! (For more info on how to manage your time on test day, see this post on Albert). The trick is to do a quick survey, to identify what may be important. Look for terms that may be important, so that you can find them later. For example, RCRF seems important. So does cosmic ray flux. Look at differences in the tables and figuresâ€"low clouds, middle clouds, high clouds. Timelines occur on the X-axes of the 3 figures. Also see if you can spot trends or patterns. For example, in Table 1, both flux in the first column and Low Cloud Cover in the second column show a simple upward trend. None of the trends on the Science section will be complicated, but it's important to be able to spot them. Now that we've found some important signals buried in all the noise of the passage, let's try a questionor two. Look at Question 15 first (this is a mid-level questionâ€"questions in each passage tend to get a bit more difficult as you move on, but not too much!) Here we have a couple of “signals”: low and high clouds and relative cosmic ray flux (RCRF). So we need to zoom into figures and tables that address this information. We also need to find a graph that pretty clearly shows direct correlation. With just a glance, we can see that Figure 3 shows a strong correlation between cloud cover and RCRFâ€"the graphs are almost exactly the same! And what kind of clouds are shown on that graph? Low ones. The graph for high clouds in Figure 1 doesn't show a clear correlation at all. So we know that the statement is consistent with Figure 1 and 3. Answers A and B both assert that the statement is correctâ€"but only A correctly states why: because the graphs for low clouds and RCRF are almost exactly the same. Let's try a slightly harder question. Question 17 is the last question for the passage, and the ACT Science Section sometimes asks you to use a tiny bit of basic scientific intuition for these questions. Again, you want to use High and Low clouds as signals. But now it's introducing some new informationâ€"some clouds are made up of ice crystals, and some of water droplets. But there's nothing about water and ice in the passage! No worriesâ€"all you need to know is the simple scientific concept that water freezes and turns to ice as the temperature gets colderâ€"basic stuff! So if high clouds are made up of ice, and low clouds are made up of water, clearly the higher clouds are colder. So that rules out A and B. To choose between C and D, look at the altitudesâ€"C asks us about the 3.2-6.0 km range (middle clouds), while D asks about the 6.0-16.0 km range (high clouds). Since only D pertains to high clouds, D is the correct answer. See how easy it is? Signals through noise. Once you practice a few of these, it becomes much easier to see how to navigate your way through the ACT Science Section. And ultimately, although this isn't really a science test at all, the skills you acquire from mastering this test will be extremely helpful in college and beyondâ€"whether you're taking science classes, or doing anything else that involves sifting through large amounts of data to find the information that really matters. About the Author Steve Markofsky is one of our most experienced and qualified test prep tutors. For more information on ACT/SAT tutoring and to see profiles of tutors like Steve, click here.

Happiness, Fears, Loves Talking About Existential Questions With Help From Gillian Anderson

Happiness, Fears, Loves Talking About Existential Questions With Help From Gillian Anderson When were you happiest? What is your greatest fear?In English we call these existential questions or questions about the meaning of life. They are  issues we all  ponder (think about)  at some point.Let’s see some interesting responses to  some existential questions with Gillian Anderson, better known as Scully from the X-Files, in an interview published in the UK’s Guardian newspaper in March, 2011. Afterwards lets answer some questions together.When were you happiest? In the womb.What is your greatest fear? Insanity.What is your earliest memory? One year old in Puerto Rico, my feet in the sand, wearing only a nappy, and cradling eggs in the crook of my  arm.Which living person do you most admire, and why? Obama, because against all odds, hes getting the job done with grace and integrity.What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Sabotage.What is the trait you most deplore in others? Bullying.What was your most embarrassing moment? Thinking I was doing Victoria Beckham a fa vor by putting her shirt collar down. It never occurred to me she might want it that way. Needless to say my charitable act did not go down too well.What is your most treasured possession? My children â€" Piper, Oscar and Felix. Obviously I do not possess them, but saying anything else would seem plain wrong.What makes you unhappy? Me.What do you most dislike about your appearance? Its length.If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would you  choose? The Amazon.Who would play you in the film of  your life? Johnny Depp.What is your guiltiest pleasure? Not exercising.To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why? My high school geography teacher, for putting gum on her chair and ruining her favourite skirt.Have you ever said I love you and not meant it? Yes.What is the worst job youve done? Pilot of The X-Files.How do you relax? Beating myself into submission.What is the closest youve come to  death? A bull elephant in Kenya moving towards our car as we tried to do a  three-point turn in a dead end.What keeps you awake at night? My two-year-old.What is the most important lesson life has taught you? That Im not in charge.QuestionsWhat impression do you have of Gillian from her answers?Can you tell what kind of a child she was from her answers?Are you surprised by any of her responses?What is her self-image like? Do you think it is mostly positive or negative?At what point in your life were you happiest?Do you ponder  life’s existential questions regularly or do you try not to think about them?What do you do when you feel a little down or sad? Do you watch movies or read a book to feel better?Did you find this blog helpful? Please share it on Facebook and Twitter.

Hurtwood House China

Hurtwood House China Hurtwood House China With its first school opened in Ningbo in 2014, Hurtwood House China has established a network of sister schools under the banner HD schools. All of our schools offer students a fully bilingual education that blends the best of the West and the Chinese curricula. As the school motto Education Creates Character indicates, Hurtwood House China provides students with a broad and balanced learning experience - one in which tradition meets creativity and East meets West. HD Schools (HD Shanghai, Ningbo, and soon Beijing and Qingdao) benefit from a strong relationship with Hurtwood House, our partner school in the UK. It draws on Hurtwoods experience and expertise at providing an all-round education where children, not only achieve excellent academic results, but also develop interests and skills to prepare them for the challenges of life beyond school. With this in mind, HD Schools curriculum offers a broad range of opportunities designed to develop intellectual growth, physical and emotional health, artistic endeavors, creativity and service to others. The Schools are committed to fostering truly bilingual and bicultural students, enabling them to gain competency in both Mandarin and English, as well as preparing them culturally for life in an increasingly interconnected world. Our curriculum is taught using a dual-language immersion approach; students benefit from lessons delivered by native speakers of English and Chinese, with some subjects taught with both teachers in the same classroom. As well as supporting students to become bilingual, the low student-teacher ratio enables HD Schools to deliver a highly personalized approach to learning. In keeping with our partner school, Hurtwood House, HD Schools ethos, values and curriculum will help to foster a strong and supportive school community. We are looking to build a team who are strongly motivated and enjoy participating in all aspects of school life. Teachers who have not experienced a bilingual program before will enjoy the challenge and learn new and transferable skills in the process. Check out our established HD schools in China: HD Ningbo School:http://nb.hdschools.org/ Shanghai HD Bilingual School:http://sh.hdschools.org/ HD Beijing School:Coming Soon! View our Brochure

Our top must-have Dubai experiences

Our top must-have Dubai experiences We’ve been making lots of offers recently for UAE teaching jobs, which has been making us excited for all our lucky teachers who will be making the move to the region very soon! We’ve decided to put together a list of our favorite popular Dubai sights and experiences, as well as a few lesser known hotspots.1. The view from the Burj KhalifaThis is one attraction you quite literally can’t miss! Dubai continued to strive for ‘bigger and better’ with the world’s tallest tower, complete with the world’s fastest elevator to whisk you to the astounding views that await at the top.2. Sunset at Dubai CreekTake a cheap ride on a traditional abra across the creek to the atmospheric calls of evening prayer. Stop off and explore the Deira area, where you can wander the markets for spices and incense.3. Go on safari in the desertYou can opt for an exhilarating 4x4 ride across the sand dunes, or take things more slowly and venture into the desert by camel back. There may be options to camp during the night with Bedouins, share stories and enjoy a nomadic style barbeque under the stars.4. The Sheikh Mohammed Centre for Cultural UnderstandingA fascinating place to visit in the early days of your UAE adventure, this centre does an informative and entertaining job of explaining the Muslim way of life. The outdoor surroundings make this a beautiful spot for a traditional Emirati breakfast or lunch, which is served daily.5. The Gold SoukPrepare to be blinded by a dazzling array of gold and jewels at this busy marketplace. Dubai is known around the world for its supply of cheap gold - don’t be afraid to haggle for a bargain.6. Old DubaiThe Bastakia Quarter is one of the few remnants of the old city, which originally begun its story as a successful fishing village. Stroll along winding pathways through a maze of traditional style buildings and galleries. If you get the chance, pay a visit the vibrant textiles market.

French Tutor in Los Angeles, CA

French Tutor in Los Angeles, CA Meet our new French Tutor Mrs. Mathilde H. from Los Angeles, CA. Mathilde moved from Paris to Los Angeles last year. She runs her own visual arts and research studio with a partner located in Paris. Her schedule is very flexible and gives her free time to pursue other activities. Mathilde is a culture and language lover, and she loves to share her passion and knowledge. Mathilde used to tutor kids back in France, using various resources such as fiction, videos, conversationto help them improve their skills and enjoy what they learnt. Mathilde and other  French Tutors at TutorZ.com can help you with French lessons of various levels, from beginner to more advanced. They are  looking forward to meeting you!