How to improve output of a home tutor

Thursday, 14. January 2010 6:55

Managing home tutors and improving their efficiency depends much on the parents also. You need to follow some guidelines to achieve the maximum out put.

It is as good as a journey of investment with trial and error policies for most of the parents. Once you start searching for a good private tutor for your child, you will face so many obstructions right from area selection, to time scheduling to tuition fees. And above all the teaching nature and seriousness of the teacher well in advance. We can say you are about to organize part time wedding agreement between your student and the employed tutor. They need to understand each other first then talk about study pattern and everything else in the earth.

Therefore you can never be assured of being successful in arranging an ideal teaching companion for your kids. But you have many things to do with the ongoing process of tutoring services by the tutor you are paying every month. Though you can not change the teaching pattern drastically but it is possible to monitor and manage those hours. Let us see how best we can improve the relation and net output from this duo while in operation.

a. Be well wishers:

Mingle with the teacher and be close to his daily activities up to certain extent. You can do it while the tutor is about to leave your place after finishing his course of time. Show little interest to his professional activities during the day and ask about his families and other minutes. This way you can develop healthy relation with him as well as can address any serious issue where your student needs immediate attention. Discussing study related queries or forecasting comments on student’s expectation with home tutor often become so simple if you can improve your communication in a healthier way.

b. Never badmouth in front of student:

It is quite natural that you do not like a personal trait of a teacher coming to your home. But do not discuss or openly comment on it in front of your kid. This may hamper the respect and obedience your student has on his master. Never criticize a tutor among your neighbors or friends or mates. This can depress a tutor and negatively affect in his tutoring effort. Rather if any problem arises during study periods try to resolve it later in friendlier manner. Do not gossip on it any more. It is advisable to encourage him and positive appreciation from the student also can make him more energizing and serious to his responsibilities.

c. Keep him in loop:

You should not just blindly depend on the tutor for imparting knowledge to your student. Rather keep yourself updated on educational news and share it in front of both. This will help the tutor to get prepared for all such updating and latest happenings. Obviously he will regard you as a serious parent who knows how to monitor performance and efficiency of a student. This way you are helping both of them as well make the whole interaction quite informative. Keep a close watch on your student and tutors during tutoring session but dramatically. Do not forget to ask study progress in front of your child only, but make it twice in a week not frequently.

Certain precautions and strategies based on you tutor’s activities can do real help to your student. It is good not to complain too much on tutor or student. Rather pacify the whole matter judiciously. Remember any home tutor will execute his job seriously if you are intelligent enough to drive him in your way with out his sharp notice. After all this is not just an investment of large sum every month .The career and future of your child is directly related to it. Both ways you can not be a silent spectator.

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Tutorial website…Help line for home tutors and students

Friday, 20. November 2009 7:24

 

We all know that service is all about meeting people’s need. But in reality today service is nothing but spontaneous, effective, customized activities and building relationships. Market is volatile so with every one’s requirement. The whole idea is to create a holistic environment where your customers breathe easy and feel comfortable dealing with you as a person. Personalized and case specific solutions deserve attention in current rat races.

 

MyPrivate Tutor.com has been constantly monitoring the pulse of students and tutors and thus come up with updated solutions for whole educational participants. Certainly you as a student or tutor would like to avoid spending too many hours for your relevant searches. In fact you will be happy if your precious time is being used in core activities rather than wandering for educational guides. Reducing the time and distance gap between students, tutors for rapid communication and interaction is the principle objective. With the advent of technical advancements in networking field, the extent and quality of the information reach gets easier and user friendly. Just you need to get connected with a good service provider.

 

If you are looking for students to give tuition or have home tutor requirements from your area, the process get really handy. Let us see how handful these are:

 

  • For students who are looking for private tutors can directly enroll them with an online tuition agency i.e. tutor provider organization. They have huge databases of reputed tutors all over the country from which you have options to choose from and contact directly through phone, email alerts, SMS services. These are most transparent and quick mediums that can facilitate students to get their enquiry solved as and when they wish for.

 

  •  For tutors who have tried hard to get good number of students from his preferred locations, can relax now. Even you need not to go out to search what you need. Just register with a reputed tutorial website that can help you finding and communicating with the students from your area that you never knew till date. You can receive tuition enquiry through email, SMS and direct phone call. Not even that with video tutoring you can promote your teaching skill to thousands of students and gain much from all around services. So days have gone when tutors used to scratch their head while searching students.

 

Thus the way we look our service background has changed dramatically. You hardly need to worry for your requirements, rather give service providers chance to do all the jobs for you.

 

We at MyPrivateTutor.com do provide all these personalized services to our students and tutors community all around India. Register with us and let us know your requirements via email at info@myprivatetutor.com

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Video tutoring class… a new choice for tutors

Monday, 2. November 2009 6:09

Teaching has been aiming for media help since long days. With the advent of interactive communication, Internet and Video has been popular with in a quick span of time. While everything gets customized in a way or other, education process also gets revitalized.

 

What it is?

 

 Video tutoring, an audio-video engagement for students proves gold for its real time teaching method. The teacher for video tutoring will deliver lessons on different subjects and different classes via Video Feed created on their own or with the help of an online tuition agency. The objective is to provide additional support to tutors and students from far of distance. It is evident that students get quick inputs from audio visual mode of communication.

 

Tutor benefits:

 

1. Highlight and showcase your tuition expertise on particular subjects or topics

2. Create hype among student communities and get more tuition enquiries from local areas.

3. Effective interaction with targeted students and obviously longer retention span

4. Commission earnings on payment by students for attending video classes.

 

Student’s profit:

 

It is just next to a class room environment that provides students quality education with video demonstrations which can be recorded for later review. The students attend the classes via video at their home and also get saved video format of lectures later when required.

 

MyPrivate Tutor.com has been providing such opportunities for students and teachers across India.

Please send us a sample video tutorial by simply filling up this form at http://www.myprivatetutor.com/submit_video_tutorial.php. Select your topics based on classes and subjects and prepare a sample video. If want to record such videos for free visit our office.

 

Better educational service is best of our interest.

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Tutors turning Online…why?

Friday, 16. October 2009 9:08

 

If I ask what keeps you changing, reply would be need of the hour. You as citizen of a growing country got enough experienced with essence of Internet services till date. Could you have ever thought of searching teachers while relaxing at your drawing room at around 10 p.m ? Not even that prior to direct communication you got answer for most of your queries like teaching schedule, fees, approach, qualification and expertise everything. In case of any emergency get your complex assignment done or clear your doubt on a particular topic. Nothing to worry you are affectionate to such prompt and reliable service.

 

Some questions to tutors:

 

  • Did you ever try to realize what makes the tutors gathered for registering themselves to a website?
  • Why Gurukul system of early decades getting obsolete where students used to find and gather to a single teacher?
  • What makes tuition environment so competitive?
  • Why do you aim to gain wide popularity apart from being a local good teacher?
  • How the education system has turned you custom made and student specific as compared to general approach?
  • How and what is the mode of updating and upgrading your status and existence as an established tutor?
  • What is the best way to drag students for your tuition service?
  • Why do parent find for a good home tutor rather than a group tuition centre available at local place?
  • How reliable and helpful information you find on the web?

  

Answers to all of the questions will led towards justified reply of the title query.

 

Things have changed very fast. But history repeats, might be in different form. In fact one to one teaching concept gets revitalized and proves worth of investment even now. Early 80s and 90s have seen growth in coaching centre, group tuition avenues. But once again waves turned back to its primitive root, Private tutor. If check the toll of growing home tuition agencies all around globe, one must be stunned to see the responses. Tutors are heavily dependent on web communities and online services. Hence web creates a platform for both student and teachers to understand better on their requirement part.

 

We at MyPrivateTutor.com simplify the task of searching students and tutors online. Once you register yourself in the website of MyPrivatetutor.com, get evidenced why tutors are turning Online. For any online help on tuition enquiry please be open to email us at info@myprivatetutor.com .

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Study at its best…Seasoning yourself

Tuesday, 6. October 2009 6:07

If I ask you when did you study hard last time your answer is bound to be none other than “Exam Season”. Similarly if I want to know when you studied smart last time, obviously you would say last 7 days prior examinations. Let us take general trend in practice. So what bothers you to do serious study only during exam hours? What about rest of seasons? All of us know the answers well.

Fine, we can do some needful exercise on student’s learning patterns. The problem lies with late preparation and lack of seriousness and regularity during no exam seasons. Well accepted the lame excuses behind all short falls we can make out certain plans to do the best during eleventh hour. Students should take these initiatives  as early as recommended.

 

Few tips that would prove really helpful are as follows: 

 

  1. Plan your total course curriculum chapter and subject wise, also map out available days for your complete preparation.
  2. Be quick and particular on your decision and framing. Don’t get bogged down by volume of study or thinning of time span.
  3. Spend few days to understand important chapters for exam purpose. Take help from suggestions given by school teachers or private tutor or coaching centre.
  4. If required so self analysis on previous year exam paper, focus on trendy and repeat questions. Be convinced and acknowledged by question patterns. Get used to new questions also and if time permits just do practice on some tougher numerical. It will boost your confidence level.
  5. Don’t waste your time only attempting harder problems in such urgency. Rather keep your morale up by trying easier problems.
  6. Fix deadline for every chapters and try your level best to retain your mileage. Don’t get panicked and be close to your scheduled plans.
  7. Once you are starting a new chapter always do marking and highlighting key points to address . This is to ensure you don’t miss important points while revising, provided the retention capacity of new chapters are not very good in general.
  8. Always make sure you are very much positive on what you are doing. Don’t get confused with over burden. Make out simple strategy to achieve the momentum. Remember you only know your strength and capability. Do believe on your potential and every time set a new and high target for your preparation frequency.
  9. Once you are through a subject don’t forget to write down the subject matter point wise in your rough copy which you can consult later during final take. Try to sum up your memory collections and put it in words. This must give you immense confidence and last time touch on the eve of your exam day.
  10. Keep your brain and ideas open so as to ensure, during exam hall you can attempt all questions and write with open knowledge resource for uncommon questions.
  11. Try to relate your answers with relevant examples. This will enhance answers quality as well as give you free flowing ideas to voice your views.
  12. Put your efforts in right direction and expect better output against small inputs. That the way a student should act smart and perform the best during exam hours.

 Students are invited to write their own experiences before exams and also how they have coped with last time preparation sessions, those unforgettable tough times. To share your views email us at info@myprivatetutor.com. If you need any suggestions, help or guidance regarding exam preparation strategies then send your queries to us at MyPrivateTutor.com. We will be glad to answer you at the soonest.

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Choosing a home tutor….Judgment for Parent

Tuesday, 15. September 2009 13:24

All of us have a flair idea on selecting the best when needed. But understanding and counseling a tutor for  student is not a cake walk for everybody. It takes some serious effort to generate that amount of faith on a private tutor. My PrivateTutor.com makes your tutor search easier and trustworthy as tutors here are filtered   through several verification criteria

Understand your student’s need first

If we talk about ever growing sector in service industry today in India, Education gets priority than others. Say it upgradation, changes or reformation it is a sheer concern for everybody. For parents this is nothing but a challenge against tough competitions right from pre –school levels to higher studies till the end. Naturally they often get confused with so many options around them. Though they don’t leave a stone to search the perfect match but success rate is not assured enough. 

                             Let it be frank, apparently how many parents do the real check while identifying suitable match for their students? Can you believe a tutor just based on his words? For parents  is it really possible to realize student’s IQ frequency with different environments always? For e.g.  at home, schools, playgrounds, coaching centers, friends place  or in front of a private tutor . General tendency goes with either exceptional educational qualification or huge tutoring experience of a tutor. But it is better to do the screening first and analyze the factors that motivate a student towards his educational gadgets. Needless to say, proper consultation with an expertise from large tuition agency like MyPrivateTutor.com gives you that level of comfort as anticipated. With its on ground experience on Private Tutor networking relationships across India it gives you what you need exactly and also tells you how to satisfy your search. 

Important points to remember

We are offering you some guidelines you should follow, or at least take into consideration, when looking for a home tutor.

 Good education background

 The wonderful home tutor is the one with who your child is at ease, who stimulates your child’s intellect and commitment for study. The best way to choose a good home tutor is to do a bit of research and to get involved in the selection process. What is needed is justification of educational qualification and relevant tutoring experience. Here recommendations or good reference from a leading tuition agency e.g. MyPrivateTutor.com works brilliant.           

 Good Character- accountability, integrity, promptness, devotion and persistence

 While choosing a home tutor you should find for these must to have qualities in him/her: accountability, integrity, promptness, devotion and persistence. How to determine whether a certain candidate possesses the qualifications required and the abilities you are looking for. It is simple. Check the candidate’s background. You ask to see diplomas, degrees, other educational qualifications he might have, letters of recommendation from previous assignments, school examination reports or word of mouth popularity. The reliability factor only depends on time. You have two ways for identifying whether your home tutor is a reliable one or not. First, you could be an observant parent and monitor the teaching sessions. Secondly, you could just go for your child’s opinion. Persuade your child to speak up and express all his/hers preference lists towards the home tutor. Finally, the understanding between the home tutor and your child will surely bring the best results.

 Get suggestions and guidelines from reputed private Tutor’s forum. Before selecting a particular tutor browse through all relevant tutors from your region, check their method of teaching and get assured with other required information provided by such tuition agencies. Make your area of choice wider but judicious planning with personal consultation from academic counselor will give you valid and unique inputs, a more realistic view point.

 Able to make student understand and pick up the problematic areas

 Ideal tutor is the one who is able to discover your child’s lacks on a certain subject; the one that can stimulate the child’s mind and commitment; the one that has the ability to motivate your child to work hard; and, above all, the one that can set him/her as an example of morality and responsibility. Regular and smooth interaction between Guardian and tutor makes sense, it helps to channelize tutor towards his job responsibilities. Follow ups with student also gives a flair idea while bridging the communication gap during study hours. Know the real cases from MyPrivateTutor.com records.

 

We all know “Prevention is better than cure”. Try to get as much as tutor information from authorized and trustable tutor providing organization.. Never be afraid to refuse or fire any home tutor that doesn’t suit your expectations. For the easiest way to find your own home tutor, personal tutor or private tutor just visit us at MyPrivateTutor.com. Have any query on your tutor search don’t hesitate to write us at info@myprivatetutor.com. Because you deserve the most for your student from us.

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Private Tuition… more than just a part time job

Thursday, 10. September 2009 9:54

Balancing with our progressive education systems and its reformation, home tutoring   has also taken a strong shape in this need of hour. Hence professional career as a private tutor is one of the most sought after and highly paid job in many countries. MyPrivateTutor.com takes a look on growth curve of home tutoring jobs in India.

Demand upsurge for Private Tutor…The driving factors:

Expanded teaching horizon

We have been seeing for so many decades how private tutors being the part and parcel with student’s academic progress. Education is no more just for knowledge gathering these days rather it’s very much tailor made and job oriented. Here comes the real demand for the need and case based experts. Let it be in the form of an IT professional, an Engineer, a lawyer, a medical practitioner or a chartered accountant anything. Connecting knowledge to field of application is what is being counted. The idea of a conventional private tutor i.e. typical school or college teacher doesn’t fit always into most of the parent’s selection criteria these days. As learning streams became diverse, up gradations became a daily routine to monitor, a good student requires individual attention for every doubts. Even certain conventional teaching practices are getting obsolete since information resources gets wider. Thanks to World Wide Web.

Therefore demand goes up for working professionals, retired persons, and unemployed postgraduates with good tutoring records. Urban Countries like US, UK, Singapore, China, Malaysia, and Australia have shown tremendous growth opportunity for home tuition services. Much positivity and overall progress of a nation shows the strong trustworthy bonding between students and teachers which is an indispensable social building block.

Preplanned career graph

Even parents become flexible enough and looking for options rather than institutional teachers. Cost effectiveness along with local reach gets into their priority list. Parents don’t spare a single way so as to find the best resource for their students and take extra effort setting up  a target. For example it’s very common that a student of class VIII has started preparing for IIT entrance or AIIMS   . Hence number of tutor per student gets a good high irrespective of classes or standard. Therefore opportunity seems to be vibrant for those who aspires their career as a recognized private tutor. It gives you enough to live independently, enough to enhance your creativity as well as perfect enough to meet your expectations. We at My Private Tutor.com convert this opportunity factor into reality for the people who have the passion or need for private tuition.

Need at all level

As noticed from MyPrivateTutor.com records, there are good number of young people with strong engineering and IT background completely engaged in private tuition service. Even competitive exam aspirants also have a huge share on that. As per regular tuition enquiry received at My Private Tutor.com, students from lower classes prefer flexible tuition schedule since their involvement with other extra curricular activities also come into priority list. In fact during career enhancement or skill up gradation many working professionals are searching for private tutor. For them tuition fees needn’t to be compromised. Therefore it is better not to categorize home tuition concept  in terms of standard, class, category or age neither for a tutor nor even for a student.

Student search at   finger tips

It’s evident from current tutoring jobs listed in MyprivateTutor.com that today one need not to put an extra effort to find a student for from his area to teach. You can select your preferred area of tuition, students category, available time schedule, expected fees to get  students of your choice. Also showcase your experience details, tutoring approach to find more student enquiries. Update on tuition enquiry from your area is easily available to you through e mail, SMS alerts. Home work or assignments will add value to your monthly   tuition fees as well. Thus search for a private tutoring job becomes easier and quick with the help of home tuition agencies.

Give yourself another chance

Many of us would agree at a certain stage of life that we could not accomplish all of our dreams. Perhaps you wanted to be a teacher or a professor and devote yourself for social deeds. Or say you are a retired person sitting idle at your home, want to rejuvenate life with budding generation; this is the time to go after your cherished goals. It can be anything respect, involvement, money, refreshments but must to say a great social contribution after all.

Tell us what drives you to see yourself as a good private tutor. Send your opinion at info @ myprivatetutor.com. Let’s join hands, give us an opportunity to take you to your cherished goals.

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Connecting students to tutors

Tuesday, 8. September 2009 13:16

Students improve faster when they feel connected to their tutor. MyPrivateTutor.com makes that connection their first priority when matching students with tutors

When a person needs help with something, they often ask someone they trust and respect. The key to effectively getting the needed help is often tied to the level of trust, respect, and comfort between the two parties. This also applies to students learning their academic subjects.

Students Often Need Connection to Succeed:
In school, students do not get any choice as to who their teachers are, so they have to deal with whatever personality or teaching style issues they may have in their classes. Students may feel intimidated or bored by the teacher during class, which makes them less likely to want to ask that teacher for help. What a struggling student needs is someone he can connect with and trust, and someone with whom she feels comfortable making a mistake.

Tutors Can Provide Necessary Connection:
The same can be true for tutoring. If the student does not like the tutor or does not connect with her in some way, then those one hour sessions can be very very long. Parents can force attendance at tutoring sessions, but they cannot force progress. In tutoring, it is so important to make sure the match with the tutor is a good one. The great thing about tutoring is that parents and students are in control of the match, unlike in school.

Tutors Reach for “Mentoring Relationship

This is not to say that the tutor and student should be best buddies. The healthy tutor relationship is more like that of a respected uncle or sibling who is 10 years older. There is a respect and a connection, and the student feels safe making mistakes and fixing them in front of the tutor. The student also may feel like he can talk to the tutor about fears and current issues the student faces. In effect, what the tutor is building is a mentoring relationship with the student that can go far beyond the subjects being tutored. This bond between the tutor and the student is what fuels the improvement, and jump starts the student to success.

We Take the Match Seriously:
At MyPrivateTutor.com, we take great care in matching students with tutors. It starts with hiring only the best, most experienced tutors who have a record of positive interactions with students. We factor in personality traits, learning styles, gender, age and knowledge and teaching ability. We offer a free consultation, where we learn more about the student’s unique needs, and then we tailor the tutor and tutoring plan to those needs. The results are striking.

Tutoring with Connection Works:
At MyPrivateTutor.com, we have seen many students jump started by a good match. For instance, a five minute conversation about basketball may pave the way for 55 minutes of intense geometry, where the student “gets it” for the first time. At first glance, a parent might see that five minutes as a waste of time, but it may have been the trigger that engaged the student emotionally. With young people, motivation is so important, and the ability to motivate often comes from the connection between two people.

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A Real Teacher…Next to God: How far you are?

Friday, 4. September 2009 12:14

Don’t you feel proud when someone dedicates his award to you on a special day. Say it a tribute or gratitude, it is sheer love from your student. He takes the credit and share with you without any hesitation or selfishness.

Just alike after giving birth to a baby Mother doesn’t get empty rather she gets filled up with so many bonding and relations. As more you dig your knowledge resource and pour every drops of it for your students, you get more enriched with power, vision and satisfactions. Its all about happiness and enthusiasm of a teacher that drives a student for all pains , sacrifice through out the year and then success. Can a good teacher take his student for granted ever when he is so much responsible for the most sought-after decision for parents . Experience the pure heart in a student who believes you most as his greatest mentor. Being a teacher not only you make yourself bound to a student but also to the society, nation and above all humanity. In this auspicious occasion of Teachers Day, feel proud as a great contributor for your social deeds.

Share such few enjoyable moments with My PrivateTutor.com today. Let your students know how precious they are for you. Send your wonderful tutoring experiences, valuable views on current education system or ideal private tutoring approach anything. We will be pleased to publish it in our blog that has been launched to celebrate September 05. It is our tribute to the Academic Philosopher of India Dr. Radhakrishnan. Send your stories at info @ myprivatetutor.com.  Make it most for Teachers’ Day.

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