Online tutoring has opened new vistas not only for students but also for tutors who are willing to work a bit extra and earn good rewards. In fact many of the tutors are actually earning their living by working as an online tutor. If you have an area of expertise and a desire for some extra income, if you are good with concepts and like to work with students from K-12 then you have an opportunity to make some money on the side (or even full-time) from the comfort of your home.
Online tutoring is a fast-growing industry and many companies are foraying in to this business. As a result requirements for the tutors are also increasing quite sharply. The rate at which companies like 24hourstutor.com are growing there seem to huge demand for tutors. In fact they are open for hiring for the whole 12 months. The major benefit of becoming an online tutor is that students can achieve the same results of an in-person tutoring session – except you can both do it from home. No commuting through snowstorms, no appointments missed because of traffic, and environmental expenses of transportation are reduced too (as an added bonus). Before assigning any live class to any tutor, they have to undergo a training that includes technology training, soft skills training, curriculum training etc..
Generally tutors use the following tools during an online tutoring session:
Instant messaging
Interactive whiteboard applications
File sharing
Chat mechanisms
Although you can work part time or full time as a tutor, most people do it on a part time basis. And although it’s casual work, it can’t be treated casually. You are usually required to be available for your students consistently week to week throughout the school year.
Some of the requirements expected of you include (not all apply, depending on the organization):
University degree or equivalent Professional designation
Background checks
Monday, April 7, 2008
Friday, February 1, 2008
Online Tutoring
When it comes to taking online classes over the Internet, especially free online classes you want to make absolutely sure that they are legitimate which in most of the cases are not. You aren’t just fooling around with something you aren’t going to get out of, but the wasting of your time and efforts. Not all of the free online classes offered on the internet are like this, however most of the free online classes deal with different issues other than major instructional courses. As for me I will rather go for paid tutoring sites that also provide online classes at a very throw away prices and are genuine most of the times, one site that I like it personally is 24hourstutor.com.
In another words the free online classes could mean getting your GED, or learning another language perhaps, something of that nature. However, it really does depend on which web site you are looking at and referring to before you actually know. Then there are free classes that are usually clubbed with the type of subscription you take lets say on a monthly subscription you get 4 days of free tutoring or on a 50 hour subscription you get 3 hours free.
You might want to be sure to read all the print according to the free online classes you take as well, when they say free and you have to pay out all amounts of money on additional materials they say you will need such as software and other items, this is where they could get you as well.
There are some like 24hourstutor.com who charge one time money that too with lots of flexibility and then you don’t have to buy any kind of software or additional material, everything gets included in that payment. This in my opinion is far more better than those who claim to be free but actually costlier in other sense, they might very well be offering free online classes however you’ll pay for quite a bit of software or other things to get through and complete the classes.
Some people like the idea of not having to actually be in a classroom and being able to obtain some kind of skill or learning and it is in fact online classes that can provide this for them and tutoring sites like 24hourstutor.com is really doing some phenomenal job.
In another words the free online classes could mean getting your GED, or learning another language perhaps, something of that nature. However, it really does depend on which web site you are looking at and referring to before you actually know. Then there are free classes that are usually clubbed with the type of subscription you take lets say on a monthly subscription you get 4 days of free tutoring or on a 50 hour subscription you get 3 hours free.
You might want to be sure to read all the print according to the free online classes you take as well, when they say free and you have to pay out all amounts of money on additional materials they say you will need such as software and other items, this is where they could get you as well.
There are some like 24hourstutor.com who charge one time money that too with lots of flexibility and then you don’t have to buy any kind of software or additional material, everything gets included in that payment. This in my opinion is far more better than those who claim to be free but actually costlier in other sense, they might very well be offering free online classes however you’ll pay for quite a bit of software or other things to get through and complete the classes.
Some people like the idea of not having to actually be in a classroom and being able to obtain some kind of skill or learning and it is in fact online classes that can provide this for them and tutoring sites like 24hourstutor.com is really doing some phenomenal job.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Online Tutoring
In between driving the kids to school, soccer, swimming and basketball, parents feel like they are already making too many trips in the family minivan.
With the cost of a locally based in-home tutor too high to afford, several families decided to try 24hourstutor.com, the tutoring site who charges 4.99GBP per hour for one-on-one tutoring.
24hourstutor.com, which has an office in Birmingham, was founded by Rahul Agarwal, a Chartered Accountant by profession and Ashish Agarwal, a software engineer.
Now with 70 tutors, 24hourstutor.com tutors communicate with their students by voice, instant message and on a whiteboard, software that works like a shared electronic chalk board, enabling both student and teacher to write on the same canvas. 24hourstutor.com doesn’t uses webcams and videos, so as to provide an absolutely safe Internet environment for the students.
Almost all of the tutors have master's degrees or atleast college degrees with an experience of atleast 5 years, said, Rahul Agarwal. And all of the teachers speak fluent, English. To make sure tutors are easily understood, 24hourstutor.com teachers undergo several weeks of training in British culture in different regions of UK.
See Also : MySpace Profile
With the cost of a locally based in-home tutor too high to afford, several families decided to try 24hourstutor.com, the tutoring site who charges 4.99GBP per hour for one-on-one tutoring.
24hourstutor.com, which has an office in Birmingham, was founded by Rahul Agarwal, a Chartered Accountant by profession and Ashish Agarwal, a software engineer.
Now with 70 tutors, 24hourstutor.com tutors communicate with their students by voice, instant message and on a whiteboard, software that works like a shared electronic chalk board, enabling both student and teacher to write on the same canvas. 24hourstutor.com doesn’t uses webcams and videos, so as to provide an absolutely safe Internet environment for the students.
Almost all of the tutors have master's degrees or atleast college degrees with an experience of atleast 5 years, said, Rahul Agarwal. And all of the teachers speak fluent, English. To make sure tutors are easily understood, 24hourstutor.com teachers undergo several weeks of training in British culture in different regions of UK.
See Also : MySpace Profile
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