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Useful Websites During an Online Tutoring Session

By Shari Nielsen

One of the reasons tutoring online is so much fun for both tutors and students is that you get to venture out into the web and visit websites that help reinforce what you are teaching.

For instance, imagine you are tutoring a student in biology. You and the student could both visit http://frog.edschool.virginia.edu/Frog2/ and work through the online dissection together. The student can actually practice skills such as cutting the frog open, separating skin from muscle, and locating and identifying specific organs – just as they would in the lab, except they are doing it online with YOU – their tutor.

You can make reviewing math facts with an elementary student MUCH more entertaining if you both visit the following website: http://funschool.kaboose.com/formula-fusion/index.html Here, you and your student can practice math facts as you compete in games such as “Action Fraction” and “Dr. Brain’s Robot”. Suddenly, memorizing math facts is fun

Imagine you are tutoring a student in American history and are covering the American Revolution. You could visit the following website http://www.ushistory.org/march/ together and view a “virtual marching tour of the America Revolution”. Together you can read accounts of what it was like to take part in the Revolution. Visiting these pages will help you bring history alive and make your sessions much more entertaining for your students.

I usually try to find a relevant web page or two as I prepare for my tutoring sessions. Students look forward to having unique sessions and are excited about where on the net I am going to “take them”.

Where do you go with your students?

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