The Brass Tacks About Tutoring

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  • 17th November 2021
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The Brass Tacks About Tutoring

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Like any job, tutoring children is often idealized and romanticized by young people preparing for a career in education.  Then once the reality of what life is like as a tutor hits, it can come as a rude shock.  This does not mean that the ideals and values of tutoring the next generation of youth and the great thrill of seeing a young mind come alive with knowledge are not wonderful and worthy of respect and praise. In truth, anyone who makes it in the field of tutoring must have that idealism that is a deep part of your motivation system because it will be those values that will help you get past the hard times that tutoring, particularly in a public school situation often brings with a job of tutor.

But along with the values and ideals, we need to mix that inner drive with a strong dose of reality so that when you show up for your first day and work through your first year of tutoring, you are not broadsided by some of the challenges and frustrations that lie ahead.  A few moments talking about the brass tacks of a tutoring career can help you prepare for the negatives so they are less potent and less able to stop you from being a success in your tutoring career.

Probably one of the areas of tutoring that often causes high tutor stress and burn out is the level of government regulation and the extent that the administration of a school gets in the way of the tutoring process.  Many times in public school it almost seems like education is of a lesser value than paying attention to rules and regulations and maintaining order and discipline in the school. 

When you come to that tutoring position with priority placed on tutoring students the subject matter at hand and see them begin to excel academically and you find academics taking a back seat to the schools administrative issues, to discipline issues and to what seems to be a nonstop flood of forms and requirements for every governmental program imaginable, that can cause frustration about the job you have taken in that school.

Under funding of education probably ranks second greatest frustration with the working world of tutoring.  This lack of funding is evident in your pay and in how well the classes you need to teach are funded.  You may not have the supplies you need and many tutors actually find themselves buying supplies from their own money just to make sure their tutoring is successful.  That is the contrast between the public’s lack of substantial support for education and your deep commitment to it.  But the funding issue can also result in overcrowding of classrooms because the school cannot afford more classrooms or sufficient number of tutors to handle a high student population. 

The third problem that often broadsides new tutors is that many students are not the angels we wish they would be.  Especially in a public school setting, you will have in every class some students who don’t care about academics and would rather disrupt the class than allow you to teach those who do want to learn.  It takes some real experience and some coaching from experienced tutors in how to handle this kind of student but at least be aware that they will be in your classroom day one and all year long.

It takes some innovative thinking and almost stubborn insistence on staying positive to be a successful tutor under circumstances like this.  But if you keep your focus on the kids and on those moments that do come in each school year when you really connect with students and you see them get excited about what you are sharing, that one moment makes dealing with all of the other frustrations entirely worth it. 

  • 15th November 2021
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Breaking into the Working World of Tutors

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In every college in the country, there are ambitious and starry eyed youngsters who are preparing for a career in tutoring.  At some point that army of graduates will hit the streets to find jobs in the field of tutoring.  What is not often taught in colleges are the real world skills of how to actually find and land a good tutoring job right out of school.  And while there is always a need for good tutors, the new graduate should develop some skills in finding the kind of tutoring job that they always dreamed of so even from that first engagement, their career in tutoring gets off on the right foot.

There is a lot you can do even before graduation day to get your job search moving and to make yourself desirable as a tutor so when school administrators get flooded with applications from newly graduated tutors, you stand out as the one they want to call in for an interview.  One thing you can do at any time during you academic career is to intern as a tutoring assistant and volunteer to teach in underprivileged schools. 

You can teach just a few hours a day and work it around your academic work.  By taking on the working world of tutoring even before you have your degree, you will be able to present yourself to employers post graduation as someone who has real world experience in the classroom and “knows the ropes” of getting through an academic year with real live students.  That is tremendously valuable to a school administrator with a spot to fill because it reduces the concern that a new graduate who has never faced a classroom full of restless children might wash out  when the reality of what tutoring is really like.

Another way to get a jump start on the market before students flood the schools for jobs is to start your search early in your last semester of school.  Schools know by February or March if they will have jobs to fill for the next academic year.  So if you begin your search for a tutoring position in March or April, you can often land an interview or even secure a position for the fall long before many of your contemporaries in school begin their hunt for their first tutoring job.

Becoming proactive like this always gives you the advantage in finding the job you really want rather than just “any job” in the tutoring profession.  Spend some time narrowing down exactly what kind of tutoring position you want and at what level you feel your personality and tutoring style will benefit students the most.  You may do much better with young children than with teenagers or you may wish to focus on high schoolers because they are more intellectually equipped to grasp the subject matter with you.  By knowing well in advance where you want to teach, you can target those kinds of positions in your job search and improve your chances of finding that perfect tutoring job.

You should make the phrase “leave no stone unturned” your motto for hunting up the tutoring jobs that are open in your community.  First of all, be very proactive in your search. Just because you are graduating, even with honors, with your tutoring degree, that doesn’t mean the schools will seek you out with jobs.  So you take the search to them before someone else does.  And in doing so it will be you that gets the premium tutoring positions rather than have to take “what’s left” after the good tutoring positions are snatched up by more aggressive graduates.

There are lots of ways you can flush out those tutoring jobs.  Check the HR or employment offices at the schools you would like to be a part of and keep an eye on their employment bullion boards.  Use the internet wisely, watch the newspaper and even get in touch with placement agencies who are known for placing new tutors. 

But above all, network, network, network.  Use every contact you have and forge new relationships to get the inside scoop on jobs before they even become public.  Networking is the number one best way to find great tutoring positions so you should use it extensively to find a position to get your tutoring career off on a great start toward a great future of success in the field of tutoring.

  • 16th December 2020
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What is online tutoring ?

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Basically Online tutoring happens in a virtual environment or networked environment where teachers and students are divided by time and space,The basic  differences are in terms of  content and interaction, as well as in methodologies and patterns for tutoring.

 

So to read this article we understand that you want to be an online tutor, but don’t know how to get started or whether all the technology needs to be used in the process? To begin your online journey, we’ve put together this step-by – step guide for tutors and tutorial centers. We hope that you find this useful. 

 

One on One online  TUTORING-THE Potential to become  BILLION DOLLAR industry

 

Before Covid, a home visit of a tutor is a common form of culture in private tutoring. In part time, teachers and graduate students supported local children with their studies, and earned a generous $10-12 per hour. Most of the subjects taught by tutors include algebra, science and English. The tutoring technique remained the same for many years.

 

Quick forward to the modern technology age, and connecting people across the global is a click away. In the current covid scenario, Online tutoring is revolutionizing the way tutors teach their students. Due to that “The world’s now come on a single stage”  for a tutor with the right skills and teaching experience. From India to the USA, a tutor can be from anywhere and teach students remotely in their home country or across the sea. To support the remote teaching process, online tutors website like Sonlinetutor.com

 

It’s not about the typical school-going student who is searching for services for online tutoring. With the support of online tutors, graduate and postgraduate students as well as professionals are increasingly looking to develop their technological abilities and industry expertise. Higher education and management topics such as logistics and supply chain management, competitive test preparations, business administration, accounting and finance, lean and six sigma, aside from conventional school subjects,Online tutoring is given for language courses as well(especially TOEFL and IELTS coaching).

 

Not surprisingly, depending on their academic credentials, experience , and professional skills, the average online tutor will receive anywhere from $10 to $100 an hour (or even more).

 

Exciting growth rates continue to occur in the private tutoring industry. The size of the tutoring industry was estimated at $5 billion to $7 billion a year by education research company EduVentures in 2007. Only five years later, a market analysis firm Global Industry Analysts (GIA) “Private Tutoring: A Global Strategic Business Survey” from 2012 predicted that by 2018 the global private tutoring market would hit US$ 102.8 billion. It is estimated that the online tutoring market is worth more than that US $12 billion

 

According to the GIA report , the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific nations, primarily Hong Kong , Japan, Singapore, South Korea , and China, account for 90 percent of the demand for private tutoring services. India has emerged as a leader in affordable e-tutoring services (particularly mathematics), with the US serving as its largest client base.

 

Owing to the inability of the school system to cope with the needs of students, and the willingness of parents to have the best possible education for their children, the online tutoring industry is growing rapidly. Slashing public school funding has exacerbated teacher-studio ratios in many nations. The vast curriculum in some countries has made it possible for parents to enlist private tutor services.

 

Poor school infrastructure, unprecedented competition (especially for coveted courses such as engineering), and the need for young tech-savvy professionals to continuously upgrade their skills are other reasons for the boom of online tutoring in recent years.

 

  1. ESSENTIALS-5 ONLINE TUTORING TOOLS a tutor should have

 

Online tutoring allows students, regardless of where the tutor is located, to find the right tutor at the right price. Online tutoring opens an enormous market opportunity for individual tutors and training organisations.

 

Online tutoring, however, poses its own collection of problems, such as the absence of ‘human contact’ and the complexity of handling distant student sessions. Fortunately, while online technology is a challenge, it also provides a solution. There are many software applications that enhance the experience of learning and streamline the interaction between the teacher and the student.

 

 

  • Skype

 

Skype is an excellent free video and voice chatting application. The best aspect is that Skype has been used at some point by almost anyone who has a device or smartphone. For online tutors, the application provides many advantages.

Schedule Skype tutoring sessions according to tutor and student convenience. 

Share your screen, without giving the other person access. 

 

  • Share students files 
  • Take video session screenshots 
  • During the video session, type messages 
  • To add a fun touch to an online session, use emoticons 

 

 

 

  • Online Whiteboards

 

In most training rooms, virtual whiteboards operate pretty much like the actual whiteboards you use. Anything that your students write or draw on the virtual whiteboard is clear. It does a decent job of simulating the classroom experience by incorporating the use of a virtual whiteboard and Skype. IDroo, which works perfectly in sync with Skype, is an online whiteboard programme. You can select from many free whiteboard applications online.Just google it you will get it.

 

 

  • Google drive, box.com and Dropbox

 

You can store, update, and share your training tools with students at any time, from your home or office, using free cloud storage services such as Dropbox and Google Drive. The following benefits are provided by these online storage websites-

 

  • As long as your students have an account, it’s a breeze to add, update and share content. For example, by simply sending a connexion, students can upload their assignments on Dropbox and share the file with you. 
  • Share only the files that students choose to have access to 
  • Share videos and pictures easily with your students 
  • No matter which computer they use, students can access these shared files. 
  • In real time, communicate with your students. Google Drive enables more than one person to concurrently work on one paper.

 

 

 

  • Youtube

 

 

Tutors and training organisations use YouTube to share educational tools for current and future students , in addition to conducting online customised sessions via Skype. Build your own YouTube channel and upload videos about your topic of expertise captured by you. The Khan Academy, for example, has uploaded 33,856 educational videos and has more than 2,100,000 YouTube subscribers. Besides giving your students access to educational content anytime, anywhere.

 

 

  • Business Management Software

 

Furthermore, you can also use software to handle the market and administrative aspects of your tutoring business to enhance the teaching experience. Comprehensive tools for business management such as Teachworks and 

 

TutorPanel will assist you with the following:

 

  • Scheduling sessions for tutoring 
  • Managing calendars for preparation 
  • Automating reminders for sessions 
  • Reconciliation of training sessions and student billing 
  • Automating receipts for billing and payment 
  • For a clearer understanding of your operation, business cost and income reports

 

 

Using these and other online resources of your choice is a great way to provide your students with a consistently high quality experience, while making it so much easier to manage your business.

 

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  • 26th September 2020
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Where do I find online tutoring jobs?

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Category : Part time Teaching Jobs , Tutor FAQ

Every home tutor is now looking for online tutoring jobs to earn better and looking for better opportunities where they can work from home.  Due to Covid 19 ,tutoring sector get highest bad impact. In home tuitions, parents are afraid to call tutors at their place and even tutors also do not want to visit parent’s house for home tuitions. But in scenario where schools are closed , education can not be get stopped. Due to school closure in lockdown the development of child’s mind got stuck and parents are looking for alternative to provide better education for their children. So online tutoring is good alternative for that,  Where child and tutor safety is priority.

Online tutoring opened the door for tutors to reach student across the world,  now physical boundaries do not matter at all. An online tutor from Hyderabad can provide tutoring services to London from their room. So the requirements to become an online tutor is a simply thing, tutor can check the complete article here which might helpful to become an online tutor. So now we come to our topic where do tutors find online tutoring jobs? This is the biggest challenge faced by home tutors. Previously tutors are dependent on various platform and local agencies who provide them tuitions on commission basis or on fix charge basis. But now things changed you can find opportunity from other websites or you can also search for. So we include both scenarios in them and try to cover maximum things.

Scenario 1:  When you want to find online tutoring jobs though yourself-

  • Facebook.com groups:-  Facebook is the biggest social community where you can find parents groups , school groups of all locations.  Reaching right audience is not big task now days.  Join few of the groups by sending the request and post about your services. What is your experience, qualification, expertise etc. Try to write down short bio. In case if you have few students already and their parents already in that groups ask them a favor to post your requirements  in that group. Because other parents trusted them so they can hire you easily.

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  • Classified Website:-List out the classified websites in your area. You can search a term on google and find best ads , so accordingly you can write down the ad for yourself.  So to help I am including few terms example through which you can make your own

accounting online tutor, algebra online tutor, chemistry online tutor etc You can check a sample ads put by a tutor on Gumtree Singapore website. Similarly you can find few local classified website can put your own ads of services.

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  • Digital Marketing :-Digital Marketing is big challenge for freshers. If you do not have experience than I wish you will stay away from it. Because it is time consuming and expensive. I advise if people have group of tutors than it is best strategy they can follow. They can use Facebook ads, Google ads to promote their services.

 

  • Look for your network :- Believe me its work, post your services on social media and ask in your network if any one looking for a tutor , I am pretty sure you will get good words from your near and dear ones.

 

  • Depend upon tutoring website :-  If you still feel that it is not your cup of tea to do all this task, you can opt for tutoring website like us.  where we provide online tutoring jobs update directly on you whats app. You will get daily jobs updates as per your requirements. Opt for any tuitions , fix demos , even though we can guide you for how to take online classes? So Join our whats app and get updates.

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