How Can AJ Help Me After College

How Can AJ Help Me After College AJ Tutoring may be best known for its work with high school students, but that’s certainly not the extent of our competency! We work with students of all ages, and some of our most exciting work is done with clients looking to further their education beyond the undergraduate level.We work with many students who are looking to obtain degrees in law, business, medicine, or an academic subject. Admission to these programs is driven by some of the most challenging (yet coachable!) exams out there, and AJ Tutoring is unique in its level of experience and expertise in these tests.Please find a link to our graduate school entrance exam tutoring page here, or read on to find a breakdown of our approach to the GRE, GMAT, LSAT, and MCAT.If you’d like to discuss your specific needs and how AJ Tutoring can help, please contact us!GRE/GMATThe most common kind of work AJ Tutoring does beyond the undergraduate level is preparation for the GRE, the most common entrance exam for MA and PhD progra ms. There are three major portions of the test Math, Verbal, and Essays.  The math often causes students particular stress because of it’s infamous ‘quantitative comparisons’ section, which many students have no experience with; fortunately, that’s also the section we’ve found most dramatically impacted by having a solid strategy and a little practice! We have taken the strongest parts of our SAT program: breaking the test into question types, working on specific strategies for each question type, reviewing the most common content, and combining tutoring time with homework and practice tests?and applied them to the GRE. Our GRE program is fully customizable; we generally meet students for 10 sessions, but can do more or fewer and still get great results! Most students come to use needing to review a few math concepts, especially the quantitative comparisons, as well as to get some guidance on a good approach to the verbal sections. We also have found great success with t he essays, helping students work on brainstorming strong ideas quickly, organizing them in a logical fashion, and turning them into powerful thesis statements, all in limited time! The GMAT is a similar test specifically designed for entering MBA programs. However, more and more business schools are accepting the GRE as well as the GMAT, and our experience has been that the GRE is generally more coachable and easier to achieve score improvements on, so we generally suggest that students who are ready to do tutoring focus on the GRE unless their schools require the GMAT. LSAT The LSAT is the test taken by prospective law school candidates to gain admission to law school. Although it is considered by many to be a very challenging exam, it is highly coachable. Preparation typically consists of 10 tutoring sessions, with the first 6 sessions consisting of learning and honing strategies for attacking all sections of the test (logical reasoning, analytical reasoning, and reading comprehe nsion). The remaining 4 sessions are spent reviewing practice tests taken as homework. All practice tests and other materials are included in the cost of tutoring. As with all test preparation at AJ, our LSAT curriculum is customized for each students needs, and those who have already completed some preparation can choose how many sessions they would like to have and what sections to focus on in those sessions.MCATThe MCAT is taken by applicants to MD and DO programs, and a students score on the MCAT represents an important portion of their application.  The MCAT is an often-feared assessment due to its depth and breadth: it covers several years of college-level science curricula, and reading comprehension and analytical skills.  Since students start their MCAT preparation from a wide variety of backgrounds, we first help students create a customized approach for independent content review. Throughout the preparation, we hold students accountable for their content review and an swer necessary questions about key concepts.  The focus of most tutoring sessions, however, is on the best practice materials available?those from AAMC, the writers of the MCAT. By diving into detailed analyses of these question packs and full-length practice tests, our students make good strides in understanding difficult material and using solid test-taking techniques.  Unlike most MCAT tutoring services, AJ Tutoring supports each student with a single MCAT expert. This allows the tutor to gain a thorough understanding of a students thought processes, and help them efficiently and effectively on all portions of the exam. We recommend 12-16 tutoring sessions spread over 3-5 months to complete a full prep for the MCAT.  However, we understand that not all students schedules or needs fit a single package, and were happy to make adjustments to the number and focus of sessions on an individual basis.Career AdvancementAJ Tutoring also has experience in helping our clients prepare for difficult interviews, especially interviews that involve quantitative calculations or estimation, working through case studies, or other performance based interviews. We are also always adding to the list of professional exams we can assist with! If we have the qualified staff, we will work with clients to create prep plans that help them maximize their chances of getting the job or promotion they are looking for!

Top 5 ESL Classroom Aids To Get You Out of Teaching Jams

Top 5 ESL Classroom Aids To Get You Out of Teaching Jams By Adrian PalinicInternational ESL teachers have to be adaptable.   It simply comes with the territory of traveling to far off lands.   No matter where you teach, you’ll have to adapt whatever resources are available to suit your teaching style.   But what if resources are lacking?   What if the school where you’re teaching  hasn’t  given you clear direction on what to teach?   Here’s a list of classroom aids, adaptable to all levels, that any ESL teacher can pack and use in their next teaching jam:1 â€" Flashcards  - These can be adapted to suit any level and target language.  I found it useful to carry around a set of verb flashcards for words like  run, write, open, close, jump, etc., with funny images on each to represent the action.  These came in useful when teaching younger learners.  With a few rounds of repetition and a couple of  Simon Says  games, I quickly had classes of kids understanding basic classroom commands like  â€œOpen your book.”   The cards can als o be adapted to work with older students.  Make a game of it and have students make sentences with the verbs, or ask for a list of synonyms from more advanced students.2 â€" Music  â€" It may be easiest to make a playlist of music from YouTube or a similar online resource.  Pull up the playlist in class, play a song and imagine all the possible teaching activities!  Use simpler, slower songs to get your younger students to listen for a keyword or two.  See who can hear the word first!  Have more advanced students pick out words from songs sung in different English accents.  See if students can guess the next lyric.  Students love to listen to new music, especially if it’s upbeat and easy to understand.3 â€" Movies -  I’m not saying you should sit the class down and watch  The Shawshank Redemption,  but showing short movie clips focusing on key grammar points can be valuable classroom aids for any ESL class.  Again, if you don’t have movies immediately available to you, YouTube may be your best friend.  Do a little research and make playlists you can pull up in class.  Different playlists can focus on different grammar points, accents, idioms, or songs, or they might simply add a visual to a children’s counting activity.4 â€" Books and Newspapers -  Younger students will be intrigued by English storybooks for children â€" especially if they have big, bright illustrations.  In many cases, illustration styles might differ from what students would usually see in their own storybooks.  For older students, even a newspaper from your hometown can be put to great use.  Lower level students can work with the newspaper’s pictures and captions, while more advanced students can search for different uses of a verb or idiom, develop a story of their own, or simply discuss a newsworthy issue.5 â€" Pictures -  As you’ll likely be relatively unfamiliar with the culture within the country where you’ll be teaching, it’s just as likely students will b e unfamiliar with your background.  Bring some pictures that remind you of home.  Sharing these in class will show students a little bit more about you and where you’re from.  Pictures can be used at any time, and can be applied to almost any language level and grammar point.  Younger students can count items in the pictures, while older students can develop a story based on the photos.Bonus â€" A Video Camera -  Okay, here’s one more essential ESL classroom aid that will save you when in a teaching jam.  Turn any grammar point into a dramatic event.  Video cameras inspire an immediate sense of excitement (and sometimes fear). Nowadays, with high quality cell-phone video cameras, any teacher can transform a simple dialogue activity into a dramatic scene.  Set some ground rules and ensure students only use English for their scene.  Near the end of class, gather the students to review everyone’s videos.Before going abroad to teach, prepare the items in this list to ensur e you can handle any stressful teaching situation.  Because who needs additional stress while teaching in a new country?  Now you’ll have more time to relax and enjoy your new surroundings.