Brain Hurricane is a free tutoring service for students from Kindergarten to eighth grade and is exemplified with various qualities like cooperative, fun, professional, effective, experienced and many more. The concept of this tutoring program was introduced by Reed Howard who has an experience of over 35 years in teaching. The teaching programs adopted at this program helps the students to learn in an innovative and fun manner.
Brain Hurricane understands very well that students cannot learn new things unless they are paying attention. So, in order to hold the attention and interest of students, various proven strategies like hands-on problem solving activities and movement activities are performed. The students learn the importance of team work in this program. They are divided in teams and are required to solve their curriculum related problems with the help of their teammates. This also helps in building confidence among them as they try to perform better than the rest of the teams. Extensive research is done by the highly qualified and skilled teachers to prepare the curriculum which is of interest of every student. The curriculum aligns with the national and state standards and contains all the relevant content. Brain Hurricane contacts the parents of the students from time to time to discuss the behavior, academic performance and attendance of their child.
A survey was conducted by Brain Hurricane in 2008-2009 which involved 253 parents of the students studying in the Chicago Public School System. This survey revealed that 68.7% of the parents believe that the tutoring program is liked by their children. 72.2% parents were so much satisfied with this program that they showed keen interest in signing up their child for this program again, 68.15% said that they would definitely recommend this program to other parents, and 75% of the students said that they like the instructors at this tutoring program. For more information regarding the teaching methods adopted at Brain Hurricane, please browse through http://www.BrainHurricaneChicago.com
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Brain Hurricane—Helps In Building Self Esteem And Confidence Of Students
Brain Hurricane is a family business which was introduced by Reed Howard. It is a free tutoring service for the students from kindergarten to eighth grade. Reed Howard has a teaching experience of over 35 years and has done everything within her power to create an efficient way of teaching which not only clears the concepts of the students but also lessens the burden of cramming on them.
The teaching methods adopted at Brain Hurricane help the teachers in building the self esteem and confidence of the students.The teachers undergo professional training to understand these teaching methods. These methods are entirely different from ordinary method of lectures where the attention of students easily drifts away. The curriculum designed by the teachers aligns with national and state standards and the interest of students is kept in mind while creating it. It contains all the relevant content and also consists of short fiction stories that are of interest to all age groups.
Brain Hurricane contracted with CREP and provided its complete 2007-2008 database of the scores of the students in all the pre and posttest administrations of age appropriate Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) assessments to it. CREP which stands for the "Center of Research in Educational Policy" at the University of Memphis evaluates "what works" in schools across nation. On comparing both the pre and posttest ITBS assessments, it was observed that the students of Brain Hurricane showed average gains of around 14%. This evaluation proved that the stress laid on reading skills and mathematics of students helped them to achieve better grades and test scores.
At Brain Hurricane, students are taught in a complete fun manner. Various movement activities like Spelling Jump Rope and Multiplication Basketball are performed at the beginning of each day which helps in making the students attentive in the class. To know more about this program, please visit http://www.BrainHurricaneChicago.com
The teaching methods adopted at Brain Hurricane help the teachers in building the self esteem and confidence of the students.The teachers undergo professional training to understand these teaching methods. These methods are entirely different from ordinary method of lectures where the attention of students easily drifts away. The curriculum designed by the teachers aligns with national and state standards and the interest of students is kept in mind while creating it. It contains all the relevant content and also consists of short fiction stories that are of interest to all age groups.
Brain Hurricane contracted with CREP and provided its complete 2007-2008 database of the scores of the students in all the pre and posttest administrations of age appropriate Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) assessments to it. CREP which stands for the "Center of Research in Educational Policy" at the University of Memphis evaluates "what works" in schools across nation. On comparing both the pre and posttest ITBS assessments, it was observed that the students of Brain Hurricane showed average gains of around 14%. This evaluation proved that the stress laid on reading skills and mathematics of students helped them to achieve better grades and test scores.
At Brain Hurricane, students are taught in a complete fun manner. Various movement activities like Spelling Jump Rope and Multiplication Basketball are performed at the beginning of each day which helps in making the students attentive in the class. To know more about this program, please visit http://www.BrainHurricaneChicago.com
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