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Parents Guide to Online Tutoring

Parents may arrange many different supplements to classroom instruction, such as online tutoring for their children. MSN provides a guide to assist parents make these arrangements. Here’s a way today to arrange one:one assistance for students.

According to Steve Pines, executive director of the Education Industry Association, more than 1 million North American students will receive live, one-on-one homework help online from an expert tutor in 2006.

Parents should clarify the credibility and utility of a specific online tutoring arrangement. Look beyond credentials of tutors and awards received by the tutoring business. Consider seek acceptable answers to these kinds of questions.

What objective empirical evidence (data beyond anecdotes and testimonials) can you provide to me that your online tutoring helps students complete their school work correctly?

How and when will I know if your tutoring helps my child?

How will I know if your tutoring hurts my child? In other words, what harm might online tutoring do to my child?

How do I know you, the online tutor, will not exploit my child for your own purposes?

What do you do with the information you gather about problems you help my child solve online?

What does your tutoring cost me and my child? What refund do I receive if your tutoring does not work? In other words, what liability do you as an online tutor accept for working with my child?

Robert Heiny
Robert Heinyhttp://www.robertheiny.com
Robert W. Heiny, Ph.D. is a retired professor, social scientist, and business partner with previous academic appointments as a public school classroom teacher, senior faculty, or senior research member, and administrator. Appointments included at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Peabody College and the Kennedy Center now of Vanderbilt University; and Brandeis University. Dr. Heiny also served as Director of the Montana Center on Disabilities. His peer reviewed contributions to education include publication in The Encyclopedia of Education (1971), and in professional journals and conferences. He served s an expert reviewer of proposals to USOE, and on a team that wrote plans for 12 state-wide and multistate special education and preschools programs. He currently writes user guides for educators and learners as well as columns for TuxReports.com.

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