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Remote learning /
conference call tutoring versus It works amazingly
well
This is
NOT the same as large online ZOOM classes your kid went through during
COVID-19 in 2020, 2021, 2022 I have been
doing Online Lessons and Tutoring since 2010. You read that right. Ten years
before people even considered doing online lessons! Why private
conference call lessons are better than in-person lessons: * Students are busy and tired. Between school, home, work,
sports, and other extra-curricular activities, there is just not enough time
in a day to drive out then back home. * Students usually get caught in traffic and are late for lessons, which eats into lesson time paid for. This is
from years of doing in-person lessons and meeting at my office. * Students forget their books / tests / handouts at home or at
school, or brought the wrong set of stuff. At that point, we can’t go over
the material. * Many students don’t have a car or a license, and have to rely
on parents to drive. * With gas now at over $6 / gallon in * Some students tell their parents they are going to lessons,
but instead do something else. ( Yes, many students
actually do that! ) * You have a record of exactly when and how long the lessons
are, and if the student actually made it to the lesson. * We can do lessons early in the morning ( kids can crawl out
of bed and do lessons) or late at night ( without worrying about being out
late) * You and I want to take vacations. You can do lessons from
anywhere in the world from your hotel while on Spring / Summer / Winter
Break. * The office space is very expensive for me to maintain, and
those extra savings are passed onto the students How Online Teaching
& Tutoring Evolved: (A) CLASSROOM TEACHING
Tutors only
do that because the student won't be able to read what the tutor is writing
if the student is sitting across the table. During
private tutoring lessons, students are listening to the tutor talk and
looking at the test materials or notepad, NOT AT THE TUTOR.
Looking
at this photo you can see that with side-by-side
tutoring it is cramped & uncomfortable where both tutor and
student have to lean in to see what is going on.
(C) MY TUTORING Even
for in-person tutoring, I do not sit next to the student, but across
from the student. I can
write upside-down, and I write on a screen and there is a second screen
facing the student. The
student is looking at the screen or at the test papers, NOT AT ME.
(D) REMOTE TUTORING The
student is still looking at the screen or the test papers, not at me.
Everyone has personal space and is comfortable.
There is
nothing that is taught differently, explained differently, or missing
because it is done via conference call.
The
benefits, convenience, time & gas saved ( driving
) outweigh any possible downsides. Doesn’t the student need to see
you? No. Even
during an in-person class or tutoring, 95% of the time students are looking
at the test questions, handouts, and whiteboard / notepad. Teaching is
NOT a teacher standing in front of a room and students watching the teacher. Tutoring
is NOT a tutor and student sitting side by side while the student looks at
the tutor. But don't you need to see the
problems? FOR SAT
& ACT Course: No.
Unlike standard tutoring where a student has questions and someone would need
to see what they are asking or see the book / handout / paper that the
student is talking about, this is a COURSE that I am teaching, so I have all
the materials and I am the one giving them out to the student. I do not need
to see their test papers because I already know what the test questions are FOR MATH
TUTORING: Yes. But
this is very easily taken care of. Most handouts are in PDF / Word / Google
Docs form, and the students just send me a copy. If not, students just use
their phone and take a photo of the handout and send it to me. But don't you need to see what the
student wrote down? NO. That
is a big misconception of teaching / tutoring that many parents have. Looking
at what the student wrote is not of much help: 1)
Most students write in such a way that it is very hard for even the
student to read what they wrote, much less for the teacher to make sense of.
Looking at what a student wrote down is not very helpful 2)
In a live classroom situation, I would never go to each student and
look at what every single student wrote 3) I ask
the students to explain what they did, which actually reinforces their
understanding of the problem Technology
has transformed what it means to teach and learn. With advances
in internet connectivity, touch-screen laptops, tablets and phones, and
advances in software, we can now do what could not have been done
before. As I
teach and write on the screen, it appears in real-time on your end just as if
you were sitting at a table across from me or in a classroom. I use the
same equipment that I use for classroom and in-person lessons. You see a
CRYSTAL CLEAR digital whiteboard which appears directly on your phone /
tablet / laptop This is
what the student sees. No different from in-person lessons
(C) Solutions SAT ACT
Tutoring www.solutionsbayarea.com
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