Posts by Yosef Farhi

The first thing I did on my first day on the job as a Rebbi for post high school, was reinstall test taking. Test taking is one of the most beneficial ways for a person to be able to “own” the information. To review it in a way that you can answer it later, is…

When the learner gets stuck, he says I don’t know. I don’t understand. This inner voice stops the learner from being able to think. It shuts off the learning engine. It turns off the “thinking cap”. Then “spacing out” kicks in. Just changing the wording to I don’t know yet, I don’t understand yet, keeps…

The other day I met an 8th grade Rebbe, and we started speaking. When he asked me what I do, I told him. I am an Effective Learning Specialist, for 7th , 8th grade, through high school. So he asked me what my method is based off of. I told him that parts of the method…

I help 7th and 8th graders, through high school, taking them from the bottom 30 percent to the top 30 percent of their class. Last week a boy came to speak to me. He was sent by his father, because he had no motivation to learn. He was getting 60s on his tests, and that…