How to Tutor Your Own Child
Boost Grades and Inspire a Lifelong Love of Learning—Without Paying for a Professional Tutor
Available Since August 2, 2011, from Amazon. order now here.
Do you interact with a school-age student? If so—whether you’re a parent, grandparent, teacher, tutor, babysitter, or family friend—this book is for you!
Top professional tutor Marina Koestler Ruben empowers you to take a do-it-yourself approach to your child’s after-school enrichment. You will learn how to provide holistic academic support for your children and create an intellectual environment in the home—strengthening your relationship and improving parent-child communication in the process.
Ruben’s accessible guide shows you how to balance big-picture curiosity with the academic nitty-gritty of homework assignments, organization, and electronic resources. Building on her proven “Six-Step Session” format, Ruben shares the secrets to tutoring children in any subject from kindergarten through high school—all with a warm, entertaining tone that will inspire you to inspire them.
Marina Koestler Ruben, MA, is a professional tutor, writer, and editor who works as the official in-house writing tutor at Sidwell Friends School, the most renowned private school in Washington, DC. She has also privately tutored students K–12 in math, science, history, English, ESL, French, and Spanish.
She has been published by the Washington City Paper, Smithsonian.com, CNN.com, EducationWeek.org, McSweeneys.net,and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and she has appeared on NPR’s Talk of the Nation. Visit penguinrandomhouse. to know more. visit her book page on amazon to get her book on HOW TO TUTOR YOUR OWN CHILD