Home tuition can be a very good aid in assisting your child to establish better grades in school, no matter what is your child's learning aptitude is. Most of the times when a child progresses to a higher level of class in school; he or she will most likely struggle to keep up with the pace of new learning.
Students who are struggling with their studies will find home tuition beneficial, as it will help them to understand and learn their school materials more thoroughly and easily. On the other hand, academically adept students will find that tuition can help them achieve far better grades and break through the level of excellence and learning well beyond what they could achieve without tuition.
Therefore, for any students, no matter whether they are struggling or doing fine at the moment, will definitely find that home tuition is a good aid to their learning. It will be a good choice for you to get a home tutor for your child.
With home tuition, you will need to hire a personal tutor to come to your house and tutor your child. For this case, you will be able to better monitor your child's progress and get any feedback or suggestion directly from the tutor after every session.
If you plan to hire a personal tutor, there are actually three basic options. This first option is to hire a local student with expertise and a little experience in the tuition industry. This option will be very economical. However, you will risk a chance to have an ineffective tutor, depending on his or her expertise and experience in this area.
The second option is to tap on the power of the Internet. Internet has make communication between people so easy with technology such as broadband, emails, instant messaging, Skype, etc. But for this option, there are lots of disadvantages. One of the disadvantages is that email and instant messaging may not be effective for teaching when compared to face to face tutoring. Therefore, should you wish to take up this option, do consider properly.
The last option is to hire a professional tutor with reputable certification from academic bodies. This will most likely be the most expensive option because of their expertise and credential. However, if you manage to get a good tutor for your child, it will definitely be worth the money that you pay for him or her. These professional tutors will also have their own effective teaching methods, which will allow your child to learn more things faster in lesser time.
Home tuition is definitely a good aid for your child to improve his or her school work. Do consider hiring a personal tutor and help your child to break through a new level of excellence.
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Free tutoring a click away through the Pierce County Library
School had ended a couple of hours earlier and eighth-grader Anastacia Scearcy was ready to tackle her math homework – if only she could figure out one concept: how to rotate a geometric shape without the angle ruler she used in class earlier that day.
Her solution: turn on her computer to use the Pierce County Library System’s new online tutoring service.
After a half-hour virtual tutoring session, the student at Ballou Junior High School in Puyallup understood how to do the math problem.
It’s a route more Pierce County students are trying these days as word spreads about the library’s “Live Homework Help.”
The free service allows Pierce County Library cardholders to communicate with a live tutor, who could be anywhere in the United States or Canada, via instant messaging. The service is targeted at fourth- through 12th-graders who need help with math, science, English or social studies homework.
“I like it a lot. It helps and it’s one-on-one,” said Anastacia, 13. “It’s not like a teacher talking to the whole class. It’s just me and the computer.”
The library started offering the service in late August at a cost of $75,000 annually, paid for by a levy passed by voters in 2006. The library contracts for the service with Tutor.com, which screens and provides professionally trained tutors.
Library staff found that Tutor.com offered the most comprehensive services at the greatest value, said Judy Nelson, Pierce County Library’s youth services librarian.
“We’ve eliminated all the dollar barriers,” she said. “Obviously this won’t solve every student’s homework problems or concerns, but it gives many more people access to homework help.”
The Tacoma Public Library would like to offer Tutor.com, but can’t afford it, Tacoma library spokesman David Domkoski said. The $41,000 estimated cost for Tacoma would consume about a third of the $120,000 the library already spends on database subscriptions, he said. He noted that funding for the Tacoma library must compete with other needs in the City of Tacoma budget, while the Pierce County Library System is its own taxing district.
Meanwhile, Nelson is pleased so far with the early number of users and comments. Students using the Pierce library system had 1,055 sessions with the tutoring service in November. Under the service’s rating system, 96 percent of those responding were glad the library offered the service.
Anastacia’s sister, seventh-grader Mackenzie, uses the service twice a week for math. Last school year, she studied with a tutor once a week at $25 an hour. This year, the online service meets her needs better since it’s available at practically any time, said her mother, Angelina Goveia.
“I think it’s a great resource, especially for kids that don’t have someone they can just go to,” Goveia said.
Sumner High School junior Josh Davidson also has found the service helpful for his math homework.
“If I’m searching the Web I’m hoping there’s something that’ll be worded (to answer) what I’m looking for. Even then, it’s not like I can ask more questions,” he said. “With the online tutor thing I can do it.”
Asked if the service needed improvements, the 16-year-old couldn’t cite any, save for one.
“If I could be teleported to the person that would be a lot better,” he said. “But I don’t think they have the technology for that, and I don’t think the Pierce County Library could afford that.”
Debby Abe: 253-597-8694 What: Through the Pierce County Library System’s “Live Homework Help” students can get help on a homework question or a concept from a trained tutor communicating via instant messaging.
Provider: Tutor.com, a national company that provides the same service to more than 1,600 public libraries across the country. The company screens and hires teachers, college instructors and other trained professionals throughout North America to serve as tutors.
Safety measures: Students do not talk on the phone with tutors and cannot ask for a specific tutor. Tutors are not supposed to exchange personal information with students.
Subjects tutored: Fourth- through 12th-grade-level math, science, English and social studies.
Hours: 3 to 10 p.m. daily. Spanish-speaking tutors in math and science 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday through Thursday.
To connect: Go to www.piercecountylibrary.org/ kids-teens.
Cost: Free to Pierce County Library cardholders. Also free to cardholders with the Puyallup Public Library and libraries in Thurston and Kitsap counties, which have reciprocal agreements with the Pierce County Library. The King County Library System also offers the service.
Residents elsewhere can get unlimited use of the online tutoring service by paying the $103 annual fee for a Pierce County Library card. Families also can sign up directly through http://www.tutor.com/; pricing starts at $29.99 for 50 minutes.
Courtesy to Debby Abe New Tribune
