Maz Learning Center
Reasoning Skills: Critical thinking, problem solving, logic, and math.
Study & Research Skills: Basic experiment design, Literature review, study habits, note taking, modeling, data and content analysis.
Writing Skills: Persuasive, creative, narrative, informative, expository, argumentative.
Verbal Skills: vocabulary, Speech, Debate , proper diction, professional presentation
Foreign Languages: Spanish, German, French, Persian, Italian.
Test Preparation: TOEFL, ISLETS, TOEIC, AMC, SSAT, GRE, SAT, PSAT.
Program Overview
The afterschool program provides a variety of courses to improve students’ reading and writing skills, second-language proficiency, speech fluency, and cognitive ability. Aiming to help talented students gain educational resources, we strive to work with students and parents to prepare for the G.A.T.E. exam by using materials such as CogAT, OLSAT, NNAT, and MAP. In addition, the instructors will also integrate entry level verbal questions from G. A.T. E. into reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary class.
Targeted Audiences
The afterschool program is suitable for elementary students. Students who are in grade 1 to grade 6 are welcome to attend the program.
Course Format
All courses at Maz Learning Center Afterschool Program will be offered online synchronously via Zoom. All students have access to google classroom for syllabi, course materials, assignments, and feedbacks from instructors. Zoom meeting information and google classroom access instructions will be distributed in a separate file.
All courses will be offered in small groups based on students’ levels and grades. Specifically, public speaking will have a group of 8 to 10 students given the speaker's need to present in front of an audience. The Spanish class is for beginning and intermediate level students, 6 to 8 students will be in one class. The chess class will have a group of 6 to 8 students to compete against each other as well as learning as a group. Reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary will have a class of 4 to 6 students. G.A.T.E. involves intensive training of verbal and quantitative practices and we will keep the ratio of instructors and students as 1:3 to 1:4.
Our Teachers
Maz
Philosophy & Cognitive Science Ph.D
MA in Communication
Maz is working on his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Brain Science. After graduating with a master's degree in Communication, he started teaching college-level English, Public Speaking, and debate courses. He has been a teacher for 12 years.
Jeff
Linguistic Anthropologist
MA in Anthropology
Jeff is a linguistic and evolutionary anthropologist who speaks English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian. He has been providing language training for second language learners for more than 15 years. He has also traveled the world and taught abroad.
Oliver
Musician & Chess Club Founder
MA in Music Education
Oliver is a musician who plays guitar, bass banjo, ukulele, and other string instruments. He has been teaching music for more than 20 years. He also has his own chess club. Mr. Oliver believes both music and chess require patience, skills, and logic, and he will help you achieve these qualities.