Upcoming Ontario Visit and 2011 Conference News!
Just a quick note to let people know I’ll be in the Brampton area for a few weeks starting Oct. 25th. I’ll have some time during the days for coffee and chatting, so if you’re in the area and want to ask me some questions about your situation, talk math education or academic planning then give me a shout and maybe we can set something up.
There’s a good possibility this will be a recurring trip for Joe and I, so I’ve tentatively agreed to speak at the KWCHEA conference again this coming year on both University Admissions and Standardized Testing, my location permitting.
It’s hard to believe that the University Admissions talk is going to be 8 years old (!), and while I’ve tweaked it from year to year, my goal is to revamp it for 2011.
And you can help!
If you’ve attended the session before, please feel free to send me any comments about what you did/didn’t find useful in past versions of this session. Now that some people who have seen the talk will have gone through the university admissions process with their children, what else would have been helpful to know at the time? What is the most valuable piece of information you took away from the session? What would you like people just beginning this process to know?
If you’re just getting into the whole university/college planning stages with your children, and all of this material will be new for you, please feel free to send me questions (both general and specific) ahead of the conference and I will try to design the talk around current concerns. Don’t worry, the session itself provides for lots of Q & A, and I love to be put on the spot with challenging questions! The only questions I delicately push to the side during the session are ones that I don’t think will be of interest to enough of the larger audience. So do feel free to tell me in advance what you hope to get out of the session, and what your most pressing concerns are.
And if you missed the Standardized Testing for University Admissions session in 2008, but are considering tests like the SAT as part of your homeschooling strategy, you might want to think about planning for it this year. I’m pretty sure as a session we both (a) had the most math content and (b) laughed the hardest of any at the 2008 conference. You’d think that must have to be some strange coincidence, because surely the two couldn’t possibly be related. But I assure you, it’s all part of my master plan.
Most of you know me as the Crazy Compiler of Information, but for 18 years I tutored Math and English to mostly high school students. The homeschooling community has been so gracious and accepting of me as a speaker at conferences, but the truth is that most people over the age of 20 have never seen me at work in my true calling: making academic content (particularly math) easy, meaningful and fun! (… without watering the material down, I might add.)
I love that I get to share actual tips and tricks in this session, as well as deconstruct the tests, help people decide which one(s) are most appropriate for their own situation and most importantly, present these tests as tools of empowerment for your family rather than obstacles to overcome.
I’d be honoured to have you join me in one or both sessions on April 2, 2011. Details will be posted at http://www.kwchea.ca as they become available. Hope to see you there!
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