(12PressRelease.com) Home tutoring may seem a bit old hat amongst all the technological innovations that have come with the internet. But for many reasons, listed elsewhere, home tutoring still has a place. There‘s also no need to think of them as entirely separate. Creative tutors can offer both online tutoring and face-to-face home tutoring, even combining them to add interest for learners.
Whatever the scenario that has led learners or their parents to opt for home tutoring, there may still be a place for incorporating current educational technology. For many of us, the internet and digital wizardry are now part of everyday life, and home tutoring doesn‘t mean that you can‘t take advantage of the benefits they offer. Here are some suggestions for taking your home tutoring to the next level by engaging with the online learning at the same time as offering a home visit-based service. It‘s a way to add value and, in a competitive market, stand out from the crowd.
Let‘s say you offer a home tutoring service to learner X, visiting once a week, and helping them through the work they need to master. It needn‘t stop the moment you walk out the door. Probably the learner will have some tasks to accomplish on their own before your next visit, so you can assess the effectiveness of your home tutoring and their progress.
As well as your one-to-ones, you can easily use the online medium and contemporary educational software to help move things along. It could be something as simple as an interactive quiz that the learner can access online, to test their own progress, and assess whether they need to put a bit more effort in.
Use of the internet, in conjunction with your home tutoring, can be a powerful tool to maintain momentum and ensure continuity. It‘s also about motivation. If home tutoring is your main income source, and not just a way of earning pin money, a website can serve you well. Posting resources that learners can use in the six days that you‘re not there can be a great way to keep them engaged.
Another advantage of posting materials online for use between home tutoring sessions is that it can help foster initiative. Tutoring is about helping students do things for themselves. Part of that may mean you sitting at the table next to them, guiding them through the work they need to get to grips with. Good tutoring is also about developing the skills to work independently, without you there to nudge them along.
If your learners are in your own community or area, there‘s also no reason to think of tutoring as either online tutoring or home tutoring. If you‘d rather avoid the commuting, you could strike a balance, with some tutoring online, and one-to-ones in person at regular intervals perhaps once a month, or whatever seems most suitable for both you and your clients. Since online-only education does have a higher drop-out rate than face-to-face instruction, this could also be a strategy to use to make sure your students stick with it, and you keep your learners with you all the way down the line.
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