Any seasoned educator will tell you that teachers face many different learning styles in the classroom. Students vary widely, even when the classrooms are small. Accommodating different learning styles is a challenge all schools face, but there are adjustments that can be made to help.
Growing up most classes weren’t a good fit for me. Early on I found my math work pretty straightforward, which is part of what led me to my eventual role as a math educator. Fast-forward a few years however, and the jump from too easy to too hard happened swiftly and unexpectedly.
As New York City’s oldest and best provider of personalized education, The Beekman School offers small classes averaging 5 to 6 students, as well as one-to-one classes, to college prep high school students on a year-round, rolling admissions basis. Students can begin a course at any time during
“I’ve done my homework and there isn’t another school like you in the whole country!” Yes, that mother is right. Beekman’s ability to personalize a student’s education is unmatched. As our tag line states, “One school. Infinite possibilities.”
Parents and students think of the school day in much the same way everyone thought about it decades ago. Classes begin early in the morning and students finish in the mid-afternoon. While this plan may work for a majority of students, there are a significant number of students who have difficul
The term Individual Learning Plan might be confused with an Individual Educational Plan, otherwise known as an IEP. This is a document created through the public school system for a student with a diagnosed learning disability. It describes how
Our national school system, public and private alike, is designed for keeping a group of students as homogeneous as possible. Even with all of the claims of “teaching to the individual” that a traditional school makes, there has to be a level of keeping everyone in the class at the same pace, le
Virtually no other school in the New York City metro area provides the myriad of educational solutions that we provide. Between The Beekman School and The Tutoring School (a program within Bee
Here we are, summer around the corner, the sidewalks soon heating up, and dreams of beach vacations approaching. But wait. Maybe you’re just realizing your son has fallen behind in that geometry class. Maybe your daughter needs better language prep in Spanis