WHAT IS TOTOROAD
Project Totoroad is an education project established by IFU to help international students, especially upcoming first-year undergraduates, to better transit from their previous lives and studies in high schools to the distinct, brand-new academic lives in universities and colleges faraway from home.
The name “Totoroad” comes from a classic Japanese anime My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
by Hayao Miyazaki. In the anime, while being invisible for most of the time,
Totoro came out to support people as long as they need helps. We adopt his name
but with a different character (we use 多多罗 instead of the official translation
多多洛) to imply the meaning of “Compass” (罗means compass in Chinese): like Tororo,
we help the international students in need; like a compass, we direct these students
and their family toward academic success.
We aspire to give international students and their families comprehensive supports
in the aspect of studying abroad, including institutions comparisons, academic plans
and supports, acculturation assists, by designing and offering advanced bridging
programs and synchronous tutoring. Project Totoroad assembles the most outstanding
student mentors in America to help those new international students by presenting
sophisticated academic and life experience and knowledge. We aim to help those new
students with first-hand information and expertise to avoid and overcome unnecessary
obstacles they may meet in the future.
We would like ourselves to become Totoro in the anime: always backing international
students and their family in need.
In order to help upcoming first-year undergraduates to better adapt the new lives and studies in America, which is notoriously known to be absolutely arduous and stressful, we design and offer Totoroad bridging courses. The courses combine American teaching methodology with essential undergraduate academic knowledge to help new international students prepare their next-four-year studies in advance. Mentees of Totoroad bridging courses would also develop intimate connections with outstanding mentors in upper-classes, which helps mentees build up social network as well as academic supports.
Totoroad bridging courses encompass subjects of Math-Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science-Java, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics. Except Computer Science, which teaches basic programing language Java, all the other courses offer two different levels – basic level and upper level: the basic level courses target students without rudimentary understanding of the subject, specifically without AP/IB score, and will teach the basic knowledge of the subject; the upper level course target students with AP/IB scores and will teach subsequent college knowledge, relatively hard, in the subject, which all the student with related major would learn in the future.
All the bridging courses would be offered by carefully picked upper-class mentors,
including Master students and Phd students. All these mentors are verified with a GPA
of 4.0 in the corresponding courses and comes from Top 50 university/college in the
world/America.
Two kinds of class size can be selected: 4-6 student class and one-to-one class.
With the sophisticated experience and knowledge, agreeable communication abilities and
responsible attitudes, starting from this summer, not only can we bring you accommodating
mentors
but also the great academic advantage entering the college.
In order to help students already studying in the universities to consolidate what they have
learned and to get a better score, we also offer Totoroad synchronous tutoring. Mentors with GPA
at 4.0 in the corresponding course or Master/ Phd students would come to you in a one-to-one
class to help you study better. Courses are personally designed according to individuals’ needs
to best fit into the path and weakness of the mentee. Mentors would help students either review
the knowledge or analyze the difficult part or preview as preparations to lead to toward the
better overall understanding and academic success.
The subjects offer but not limit to right now are Math-Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, Computer
Science-Java, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics.
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