Tutoring and After-school Help at BHS
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Chemistry
There is chemistry tutoring at lunch. Maybe someone else can give you
additional information about some after school tutoring for chemistry
as well as the exact location during lunch.
Flora Russ, Computer Science (1/00)
By the way--in terms of at-school resources, I know our son did go to
chemistry tutoring sessions at BHS a number of times--I think they were
sometimes at lunch, sometimes after school. Sometimes they were helpful,
sometimes not. He said it was best when he had a very specific question.
I think it was harder when he was simply feeling out of his depth, and
not getting the general concepts. But they also provided a place to work
on some of his homework with other people doing the same thing.
Linda (7/99)
Latin
My daughter, also a 3rd-year Latin student, recommends either (1)
looking in the Latin room every day at lunch until you find what days
seniors are tutoring; or (2) asking Ms. Herndon how to hook up with a
senior tutor.
j--k (10/99)
I wanted to reply about Latin tutors. My daughter is a senior tutor for
Ms. Herndon and loves it. She is learning a lot by tutoring and learning
about herself such as patience and that not everyone gets it on the
first try. I highly recommend asking Ms. Herndon for some one to help.
Jan (11/99)
Thanks for publishing my help ad (for Latin tutor). Thank jk for the
tip. She "finally"
got someone to help her. The seniors didn't work for her after many
lunch periods with them. Using another classmate's private tutor was the
way she went. Hopefully this will work.
j--k(11/99)
Math
The Math department has a list of (unscreened) tutors - this list is most
likely posted in your child's class. However, I find the best tutors to
be students who have taken the class. We have MANY BHS grads at UCB
who could be employed in this way. We also have about 10 students who have
already completed Calculus and are still attending BHS (although this does
not help with the Physics). Your child may know some of these students or
grads. If not, Ms. Bled, the college counselor, or I can recommend them.
Good luck! -Laura Leventer, former Calculus teacher and Math chair
(now VP)
What math level is your son? There are a LOT of students who work
together in H203 after school. Ms. Leventer is there as well. I'm not
sure if all of the students are Math Analysis or a variety of levels.
There is Algebra II tutoring a couple days a week after school in the
southeast corner room on the thrid floor of the "H" Building. In the
same room there is Algebra I tutoring on alternate days.
MANY of the math teachers have tutoring at lunch in their classrooms.
Flora Russ, Computer Science (1/00)
And for math...the best resource he found was to track down Mr. LeBlanc
in his class room! He didn't have LeBlanc as a teacher, but got the word
from someone that he could explain things, was kind, and was often in
his classroom at lunch.
Linda (7/99)
Re: Math Tutor for AP Geometry. The Math department at BHS has a list
of tutors. You or your student should talk with the teacher and see
if they have any recommendations or know anything about them. There
is one tutor on the list who is an older man which my daughter's math
teacher thought was quite good and expensive. I think his name is
Harry or Henry. We did not have him so I can't speak from personal
experience. Good luck (4/99)
Spanish Tutoring
re Spanish tutoring-- if you would like to contact a native-speaker who
is a BHS student and has passed the AP Spanish exam, give me a call
with your phone number (my
voice mail is 644-6135) and I will ask an interested student to call you.
There are also other students who could tutor lower level Spanish who are
relatively bilingual.
Judith Bodenhausen Judith_Bodenhausen@berkeley.k12.ca.us
ELL (English Language Learners) Dep't. Specialist
(Jan 00)
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