Tag Archives: Learning

Educational Gifts for Students

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Christmas Gifts for Students of all Ages Educational Gifts Educational gifts for students are a great way of combining gifting and learning. So here are a few examples by age group to get you started. High School Memoqueen The Memoqueen mini sticker printer is a light weight device for printing black and white stickers. So [...]

Research Supports the Value of Training Tutors

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Why You Should Train Your Tutors So it's a month into the new year already! And I'm sure you are all still following your new year's resolutions, right? Well, lucky for you, there is no better time to improve your own skills as a tutor. On the other hand, if you run a tutoring company [...]

8 Ways the Socratic Method Can Boost Tutoring Effectiveness

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Boosting Tutoring with the Socratic Method The Socratic Method (also known as Socratic teaching or questioning) is probably the most ancient of all teaching methodologies. In its original form, the tutor will question the student until confused about what he knew regarding a particular subject. Then slowly the tutor will ask open-ended questions to reintroduce [...]

4 Crucial Communication Skills for Online Tutors

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Communication Skills for Tutors Why improve tutor communication? As I'm sure you are aware online tutoring requires awareness of many communication techniques. Furthermore, these techniques are taken for granted in face-to-face tutoring. So in this article, I will cover important techniques to improve tutor communication skills for online tutors. Improve Tutor Communication 1. Timeliness - [...]