Online tutoring is a phenomenon, and it’s proving very popular and highly successful for students and tutors. The pandemic introduced many teachers and students to online learning for the first time.
Many schools, teachers and students adapted well, but the consensus seems to be that the quality of online provision varied enormously.
Some students turned to online tutoring to support their home learning, with the best tutoring companies – including Joyful Tutors – being already set up with effective, interactive online teaching platforms to meet their needs. In addition, tutors who had always seen their existing students face to face had to adapt to teaching them online, and they did this quickly and enthusiastically.
So, What are the benefits of online tutoring?
Although children are back at school in person, the strong national trend towards online tutoring has not abated. This is because it has many benefits.
One key advantage we see in online tutoring is that it benefits students looking for a tutor that’s perfectly matched to them, by removing any geographical constraints so that students are not limited to the tutors in their local area. This allows us to match students to the most suitable tutor for their personal learning objectives, personality and learning style, wherever they live.
Online tutoring dramatically expands the available choice of high-quality tutors and a high percentage of Joyful Tutors sessions are now taught online, both in the UK and overseas.
Other benefits of online tutoring include improved learning continuity, as lessons can carry on even when families are away for work or on holiday, or for example when someone in the family is unwell, as there is no risk of transmitting a virus to a tutor online. When lessons take place online, it is far easier to share links and look up online resources together.
Of course, there are also both environmental benefits and time efficiencies to be gained from not travelling to provide or receive lessons. Some students find an online tutoring session less intimidating, there’s no potential social awkwardness involved for the students with the arrival of the tutor into their home, and some families are even pleased they don’t need to tidy the house because the tutor is coming round!
Who and what can be taught online?
Maths, English and the sciences are very popular online subjects, but they are also popular tutoring subjects in general. For Joyful Tutors, many of our students are preparing for entrance exams, so maths and English, along with verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning, are core components of what is studied. We also teach many GCSE and A Level students online, covering a broad spectrum of exam subjects very successfully.
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