How to Tutor the Adult Learner
Most of the time, your tutoring students will be school-aged children. Sometimes, however, you may be approached to tutor an adult. An adult student could be someone who is doing upgrading in college, or an older adult who is changing careers and needs a refresher to get into a different program.
It is important to respect and understand your adult learner. As a tutor we should be promoting the idea of people being life-long learners, and we should also be doing that ourselves. Continually working toward being a more effective tutor involves learning and growing.
Adults may face a lot more stress and pressures in going back to school or procuring tutoring than children might face. For example, adults will be juggling family and work, and now adding being tutored to the mix. Adults may be facing pressures to pass exams for upgrading in their work, or they might not have family support in their learning endeavors.
As a tutor you will want to be very sensitive to these issues. In the end, as their tutor you will need to balance being sympathetic to their issues and demanding the right amount of commitment from them to ensure they get the most from your tutoring.
Read the previous post to learn how to become an online tutor.
How to Become an Online Tutor
Teaching Jobs: How to Become an Online Tutor
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Brian_A_Scott]Brian A Scott
If you are a teacher or you have been one in past, or even if you have never been a teacher but have a passion for this profession, you can try your luck to become an online tutor.
Among online jobs, this is one job that is gaining importance day by day, and at the same time, is very rewarding. There is a huge demand for online tutors as a large number of companies throughout the world are now outsourcing their tutorial services to countries where competent teachers are available at lower wages. The internet has made this world a global village and the high technology tools have made it possible for a person living in any part of the world to be a teacher to students living farther away.
To be an online teacher, you need to have the required skills and knowledge of the requirements of the market or the subject you are serving. You also need to have basic knowledge about how to use the equipment that is required to carry out online classes.
There are two ways to give online tuitions which are discussed below:
VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
VOIP allows tutor and tutee to talk over internet. In this form, tutor and tutee converse with each other through microphone and speakers. It's an easy way of carrying out conversation as they can easily discuss the subject and tutor can understand when the tutee is confused about something. Similarly, tutee can ask about any problems that he/she is facing. If camera is used in this conversation, it gives a human and live touch. Such tuitions are not less than the real form of tuitions, because books, notes can be used as well and even if there is any important diagram or information it can also be shared through camera.
Chat Technology
Through chat technology, tutor and tutee carries out conversation in the form of chatting. It is the traditional form of online tuitions. It lacks a human touch as not everything can be explained properly through chat. However, there are a few subjects that don't need deep explanations and thus, they can be taught over chat. To make this form of tuition more interesting, the tutor can provide links to important topics that the tutee can use to get in-depth details. However, as with VOIP, camera can be used in this form of tuitions to make it more interactive.
How to Become an Online Tutor?
When you decide to be an online tutor, you first need to decide whether you are more comfortable teaching through VOIP or chat. Then find the right sources that will help you become an online tutor. If you search on the internet you will come across a large number of websites that offer online tutor employment. Go through the application process. If they need your CV, attach it. Else, fill the forms on the website.
After you have gone through this process, all you'll have to do is wait. Soon, you will get the opportunity to be an online tutor.
Visit Brian's website, http://www.LiteracyNews.com and receive free literacy help and advice on teaching students.
Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?Teaching-Jobs:-How-to-Become-an-Online-Tutor&id=5145598] Teaching Jobs: How to Become an Online Tutor
When you are learning how to become an online tutor, the general aspects of tutoring are important to learn.
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Brian_A_Scott]Brian A Scott
If you are a teacher or you have been one in past, or even if you have never been a teacher but have a passion for this profession, you can try your luck to become an online tutor.
Among online jobs, this is one job that is gaining importance day by day, and at the same time, is very rewarding. There is a huge demand for online tutors as a large number of companies throughout the world are now outsourcing their tutorial services to countries where competent teachers are available at lower wages. The internet has made this world a global village and the high technology tools have made it possible for a person living in any part of the world to be a teacher to students living farther away.
To be an online teacher, you need to have the required skills and knowledge of the requirements of the market or the subject you are serving. You also need to have basic knowledge about how to use the equipment that is required to carry out online classes.
There are two ways to give online tuitions which are discussed below:
VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
VOIP allows tutor and tutee to talk over internet. In this form, tutor and tutee converse with each other through microphone and speakers. It's an easy way of carrying out conversation as they can easily discuss the subject and tutor can understand when the tutee is confused about something. Similarly, tutee can ask about any problems that he/she is facing. If camera is used in this conversation, it gives a human and live touch. Such tuitions are not less than the real form of tuitions, because books, notes can be used as well and even if there is any important diagram or information it can also be shared through camera.
Chat Technology
Through chat technology, tutor and tutee carries out conversation in the form of chatting. It is the traditional form of online tuitions. It lacks a human touch as not everything can be explained properly through chat. However, there are a few subjects that don't need deep explanations and thus, they can be taught over chat. To make this form of tuition more interesting, the tutor can provide links to important topics that the tutee can use to get in-depth details. However, as with VOIP, camera can be used in this form of tuitions to make it more interactive.
How to Become an Online Tutor?
When you decide to be an online tutor, you first need to decide whether you are more comfortable teaching through VOIP or chat. Then find the right sources that will help you become an online tutor. If you search on the internet you will come across a large number of websites that offer online tutor employment. Go through the application process. If they need your CV, attach it. Else, fill the forms on the website.
After you have gone through this process, all you'll have to do is wait. Soon, you will get the opportunity to be an online tutor.
Visit Brian's website, http://www.LiteracyNews.com and receive free literacy help and advice on teaching students.
Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?Teaching-Jobs:-How-to-Become-an-Online-Tutor&id=5145598] Teaching Jobs: How to Become an Online Tutor
When you are learning how to become an online tutor, the general aspects of tutoring are important to learn.
How to Become a Tutor: General Aspects of Tutoring:
1. How to promote yourself
2. How to stay safe
3. How to do your income taxes
4. How to become an effective tutor
1. Promoting yourself: A tutor looks and acts professional, including the image you give, how you are dressed, punctuality, and orderly conduct. A tutor is confident but not prideful. Your image is your promotion of yourself to people around you.
Promoting your tutoring business will involve finding effective advertising, which doesn't cost you too much. Word of mouth is cheap and works well, but you must know a lot of people and have good connections for this to work for you.
2. Staying safe: Make sure you are covered at all times; in other words, don't put yourself into a situation where you could be accused of inappropriate behavior. Tutoring in public can be a good answer, or wait until you are very familiar to the student and their parents before suggesting in-home tutoring.
3. As a self-employed tutor, you must educate yourself as to how to handle income statements, income tax declarations, etc. for your own country. Do everything honestly, with everything above board, and you will never have to worry.
4. Become the best you can be. What can you do to become a more effective tutor? Look for online training, for workshops being held, read books from the library, get tips from experienced tutors. There's always room for improvement, and being the most effective tutor you can be is the best investment in yourself that you can make.
1. How to promote yourself
2. How to stay safe
3. How to do your income taxes
4. How to become an effective tutor
1. Promoting yourself: A tutor looks and acts professional, including the image you give, how you are dressed, punctuality, and orderly conduct. A tutor is confident but not prideful. Your image is your promotion of yourself to people around you.
Promoting your tutoring business will involve finding effective advertising, which doesn't cost you too much. Word of mouth is cheap and works well, but you must know a lot of people and have good connections for this to work for you.
2. Staying safe: Make sure you are covered at all times; in other words, don't put yourself into a situation where you could be accused of inappropriate behavior. Tutoring in public can be a good answer, or wait until you are very familiar to the student and their parents before suggesting in-home tutoring.
3. As a self-employed tutor, you must educate yourself as to how to handle income statements, income tax declarations, etc. for your own country. Do everything honestly, with everything above board, and you will never have to worry.
4. Become the best you can be. What can you do to become a more effective tutor? Look for online training, for workshops being held, read books from the library, get tips from experienced tutors. There's always room for improvement, and being the most effective tutor you can be is the best investment in yourself that you can make.
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