As students progress through school, the academic demands increase quickly. Many students struggle with this rising rigor and benefit from individualized tutoring. Virtual tutoring can help your child develop stronger academic skills, build their self-confidence, and provide a flexible modality for tutoring.
Individualized instruction
Virtual tutoring provided to your child should always be customized to their specific needs. Your child should receive an initial evaluation to determine their academic areas of strength and weakness and any specific skills that need development. From there, an individualized tutoring plan, ideally using research-based techniques individualized to their unique needs and overall profile, should be developed for your child. Once the virtual tutoring begins, the tutoring sessions should follow a systematic scope and sequence. The sessions should not entail random lessons from week-to-week that don’t relate to one another; instead, they should follow a plan that progresses upwards as your child grasps new concepts. This individualized, structured approach to virtual tutoring can help your child build much stronger academic skills.
Access to specialized tutoring
Many students benefit from specialized tutoring. For example, if they are struggling with reading, they may benefit from tutoring by someone who specializes in Orton Gillingham instruction. If they are having difficulty with writing, they may benefit from working with a tutor who specializes in multi-sensory writing methods, and other students might need a high level math specialist. These specialized tutors may not live or work in your local geographic area and thus finding in-person tutors who specialize in specific areas can be difficult. Virtual tutoring solves this problem, giving your child access to specialized tutors who can live anywhere around the world. This type of specialized tutoring can make a tremendous difference in your child’s learning.
Flexibility
Virtual tutoring typically offers more flexibility to students than in-person tutoring. For in-person sessions, only certain days and times may be available. You may need to integrate additional travel time to drive your child to a learning center or another location. If a tutor goes to your home, they too may face additional travel time getting to and from the sessions and thus may have even more limited availability to work with your child. Virtual tutoring allows for much more efficiency and flexibility with coordinating tutoring sessions.
Self-confidence
Many children who face academic challenges also have weak self-confidence. They might see their peers excelling in school or reading much longer books than they can and thus feel poorly about their skills. With virtual tutoring, students may feel more comfortable being in their own home in front of their own computer and may openly ask questions and engage with the tutor better than they might in person.
Many students have difficulty with the increasing academic demands of school. Virtual tutoring can help them grasp new concepts, build their academic skills, and feel great about their overall performance in school.
