Techniques For Being A Great Online Tutor
Online tutoring is traditionally a US based concept but it is slowly creeping over the pond and now begins to show its presence in the UK and Europe. As it start to enter our market I have been more commonly asked how to be a great online tutor. Now being a great online tutor is similar to being a normal tutor anywhere in the world, but it does have several greater advantages.
Firstly, its important to remember that at all times the online tutor, just like any other tutor, has to be the source of confidence, support, expertise and encouragement. They should use their knowledge, expertise and experience to help and support a guide a student through their problems. Apposed to just telling them the answer, the best online tutors will help them understand the problem and let the student realize the answer and solution for themselves. Remember never to patronize or make fun of any idea or suggestion that a student makes, always take a positive from every answer and encourage them to keep going.
Each online tutor is going to develop their own methods of teaching that they feel they have the best results with. However, you made need to change your methods or techniques with every student. Below is some great methods, techniques and advice about achieving the maximum results with your students from each lesson.
As an online tutor it is your job to find out as much information about the student as needed. You will be required to find out what the student is having problems with, where their strengths and weaknesses are and what are the key areas to focus on. Ask excellent, intuitive and positive questions to find out these answers. By finding out the areas that need improvement you wont waste valuable time revisiting topics they are already confident in.
Find out information about your students. You dont need their life story but finding out their ambitions and under which circumstances they best learn will give you, as an online tutor, the opportunity to motivate your students and achieve the results they want. It can create an excellent learning environment
As an online tutor it is important that you are willing to be flexible with your teaching technique as one style that make suit one student might not work with another. You may need to find new and interesting ways to express a problem or a solution so that they are able to understand it better. Tutoring is ultimately about helping the students not impressing them with what you know.
You need to be the source of confidence and support for your student. The online tutor needs to be positive and upbeat to create a positive and upbeat learning environment where the student feels confident to offer new suggestions without the fear of being judged. Remember to tell your students that failure is the pillar of success and to keep trying and to be tenacious.
Teachers simply do not have the time to closely check their students work and go through problems with them on a one-to-one basis. However as an online tutor, you do and are expected to. Go through their work checking closely for errors. If you do find any errors bring it to their attention and then provide the student with the opportunity to correct the error that has been made. If they cannot correct the error themselves then help them to do so.
As you reach the end of your lesson it is very important that you quickly review and summarize the key points of the lesson. Its easy to forget certain points made during the lesson. Also, when starting the lesson the online tutor should briefly recap what was taught last lesson.
Being an online tutor gives you many more advantages than a traditional face to face technology. It allows you to save your work online or on your computer so that lesson notes can be stored and reviewed as necessary. Also, as an online tutor it makes teaching and learning more fun and entertaining which will definitely improve the results of each lesson.
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