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Locations
880 Manhattan Beach Blvd.
Suite. 102
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
310.546.2408
Study Hut | Redondo Beach
210 Avenue I Suite D
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
310.540.5888
Study Hut | El Segundo
137 Arena St.
El Segundo, CA 90245
310.648.8526
Academic Coaching
Study Hut tutors are effective, first and foremost, because we are practiced students. With the rote mechanics of school still fresh in our minds, we’re familiar with all categories of study — tests and quizzes, essays, long-term research, et cetera — and the skills demanded by each. Also, with several stages of school under our belts, we remember, as our own homework loads piled higher and higher, how we learned to study more efficiently. Our first step in tutoring is making sure that students know how to absorb their material, and the second is teaching them how to do it more quickly. This second step is often overlooked, but it is essential and employs the same strategy that helps a marathon runner turn one mile into twenty-six.
Given the right amount of time with students, we teach them not only what they’re studying but how to study it. With us they learn how to plan their studies like an itinerary: to set schedules and establish goals. Studying is many times more fruitful when students clearly envision the targets they’re aiming toward. Furthermore, the tutor often functions as a kind of audience, a compelling device for the student. It is one thing to learn for yourself, and quite another to be forced to explain it for someone else. In effect, the students learn the most rudimentary skills of tutoring, and this is when they become truly intimate with their studies.
Our final goal is that students learn how to check their own progress and learn from their mistakes. Of course we don’t punish for errors, but we do ask students to observe them, to retrace their steps and find the flaws in their logic. We also encourage students to see education as a means to self-discovery. We teach students the techniques we know so that they might develop their own strategies, figuring out along the way what kinds of people they are, how they absorb information and look at the world. Several of the students who have been with us for years (and some for only a few months) have grown into themselves admirably, fashioning their own study routines and using their tutors mostly as supervisors to help them with especially hard concepts. In one sense, we know we have done our job when we feel students beginning to take the reins.
"I have been going to the Study Hut for a year. I was one of the first people to come to the Hut. When I first went I had F's and D's. After the phenomenal work of the tutors I bumped up to A's and B's. The Study Hut is a great place to do homework and study. The Hut is also a great place to hang out and feel comfortable learning."
Alex Dionne, 8th grade MBMS
"Study Hut provided me with the tools and resources to excel during my senior year and receive admission to the universities of my choice."
Evan Olsen, 12th grade MCHS