Helping students to develop task-management skills

Task management is at least as important as time management. The following suggestions can help your students to sort out the respective priorities of the various tasks that they need to carry out in the course of their studies:

Explain how useful 'to do' lists can be: It's much more efficient than trying to carry round in one's mind all that needs to be done.

Get students to prioritise their tasks: Five categories can be useful: 'must be done today', 'should be done today', 'may be done today', 'could be done today', and 'not necessary today'. This can be done, for example, using Post-it notes for the tasks, and a wallchart. Items can be moved up the wall as they become more urgent. Point out the value of choosing tasks from more than one category on each day. In other words, just doing 'must be done today' tasks does not help to prevent a backlog building up, whereas doing (or starting) one or two low-priority tasks each day has the long-term benefit of preventing an accumulation of urgent tasks.

Suggest that students make an 'urgency/ importance' grid, and decide which tasks go in which box. The titles of the boxes being (1) urgent but not important, (2) urgent and important, (3) neither urgent nor important, and (4) important but not urgent.

Online tutoring websites

With the increasing userbase for online tutoring, the number of websites providing the facility is also increasing in manifold. Find here a few of them:

• TutoringServices.com
• Tutoring-Online.com
• Tutor.com
• ClubzTutoring.com
• SylvanLearning.com
• CrownTutoring.com
• Wyzant.com
• VancouverTutoringService.com
• TutorsForKids.org
  

Why online tutoring?

There are many reasons as to why people are inclining towards Online Tutoring. Some of the prime & foremost reasons are:

• In classes all students don't experience personal level of orientation with the teachers. Online tutoring gives them a personal experience and they have a better chance of learning.
• Students can get guidance on a topic at the time of their convenience.
• Students can record & repeatedly watch a video or listen to audio.
• Students have an option to switch to another teacher if a teacher doesn't suit them. This way they can have a teacher of their preference.
  

Introduction to Online Tutoring

Online Tutoring is not just video based courses or hypertext courses which reiterate the same thing you have been hearing. Some companies just record videos of tutors and broadcast them through You Tube boasting themselves of being Online Tutors whereas the subject of Online Tutoring has more depth.

Suppose, there was a reason for which you had to leave home with your kids & all and could return home only in late night when kids have to sleep. Now it's early in the morning and your kid needs a guidance in solving a math question. Luckily, your kid is registered at Tutoring Services .com and he logs in to the system to find any of the math tutors online. He chooses a math tutor on the basis of stars & points given to them by other students and fires his question. The tutor solves his query while he is in California and you & your kid are in Wisconsin.

Even if any of the math tutors are not online, your kid leaves the question there seeking an answer in, let's say, 1 hour. Well I guess your kid won't be that unlucky to find the country's math tutors not online for 1 hour. He gets a response through email or other medium as he sought.

Such is the kind of Online Tutoring experience that Tutoring Services .com is working upon for your kids.

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What is Online Tutoring?

Online Tutoring is a virtual education technique which uses apparatus such as a computer loaded with multimedia and the internet. Softwares, such as of video conferencing, play an important part in online tutoring for the real time interaction of teachers with students. Primarily used for higher education Online Tutoring finds its uses in:

• Animated Courses
• Audio Based Courses
• Computer Based Training (CBT)
• Hypertext Courses
• On Demand Courses
• Online Learning
• Private Tutoring
• Video Based Courses
• Virtual Classrooms
• Web Supported Text-books

We will discuss each of these in detail and provide resources where one can learn their areas of interest through online education.