Online Tutoring/Teaching and Scoring

Jul 13 2008

Online tutoring or teaching is when a tutor or teacher provides educational instruction and/or help to their students, at an online classroom. An online classroom is a secure web environment where the teacher can chat with the student using instant messaging, draw problems on an interactive white board, share files to review essays and papers, and browse educational resources on the web together. Lot of times the online classroom is an one-on-one session that tutors help children with their homework and various school subjects, there are also many companies or websites provide tutoring service to adult learning on subjects such as English language.

Online tutoring and teaching is a great work from home option. You might think that to be able to teach you must have a teaching degree and/or be a certified teacher. That is not always the case. Some companies require their tutors have a bachelor degree or currently enrolled in a university (such as tutor.com), others might hire those who have tutoring experience. So you need to check out each site’s requirement when apply for online tutoring or teaching jobs. Online tutoring and teaching jobs usually pay at least $10 an hours/session, and certified teachers often can make more.

There are tools you need to have in order to teach and tutor online. You need to have a reliable high speed Internet connection, a good and fast computer - a computer has enough memory, since you might need to download software or application tutor companies use to teach students, such as an online chalk board. Of course you will need to have headset and/or web cam.

While many tutoring companies allow flexible schedules, you need to commit to tutoring during the hours you’ve scheduled and arrive on time, you need to finish the session without any interruption and you can’t leave the session early. You must know your teaching subject well, be able to communicate with your students and be able explain concepts to people of a variety of ages within a online environment.

There are many websites devoted to online tutoring and teaching for children and adults on a variety of subjects. Following are some of the legitimate online tutoring companies. I will be adding more to my work at home directory.

eSylvan - www.esylan.com
Tutor.com - www.tutor.com
goFlunt - www.goflunt.com
BrainFuse - www.brainfuse.com
KidSpan - www.kidspan.com
SmartThinking - www.smarthinking.com
MyTutor24 - www.mytuto24.com
Homework Tutoring - www.homeworktutoring.com
Aim for A Tutoring - www.aim4a.com
Tutors Teach - www.tutorsteach.com
A-1 Tutor - www.a1tutor.com
eHill - www.ehill.org

Besides online tutoring, online scoring is another great work at home option if you have teaching experience. ETS and Pearson both offer exciting work at home online scoring job opportunities. (links see work at home directory)

5 Responses to “Online Tutoring/Teaching and Scoring”

# Chuck Kleineron 13 Jul 2008 at 4:55 pm

Hi,

I noticed your info on online tutoring and wanted to point out that item 6 in your list is spelled incorrectly as is the website.

SMARTHINKING and smarthinking.com have only one “T”. Kind of like Smart hinking.

One major difference that SMARTHINKING has from the others on your list is that we’re the only online tutoring company that has published independent research which shows that we improve student grades. We’re also the only online tutoring company to ever win a CODiE award from the Software & Information Industry Association.

Thanks for sharing this.

Chuck Kleiner
VP Sales & Marketing
SMARTHINKING
# Meion 13 Jul 2008 at 5:35 pm

Hello Mr Kleiner,

Thank you for pointing out the incorrect website address of Smart Thinking, I have corrected the url.

And thanks very much for the additional information about Smart Thinking. I am glad to know that Smart Thinking is a great online tutoring company with proven credential and hope more people know about your company.

Mei
# Ehrinon 14 Jul 2008 at 8:12 pm

Please check out Edufire.com, we are a newer site that is focusing on foreign language tutoring and giving away free first lessons, Just email me ehrin (at) edufire.com and I would love to provide anyone a free lesson. We will also be expanded the topics covered on our site very soon.

Thanks
Ehrin
# Meion 15 Jul 2008 at 8:15 pm

Hi Ehrin,

Thanks for your information and recommendation about Edufire.com! I will add this site to my work at home directory. Thanks again!
# Peteron 30 Aug 2008 at 6:52 am

Thanks for the info. I did find another one, apart from the ones in the comments: http://www.studentteacherexchange.com/ which is completely free and uses chat/video/voice and whiteboards as well. They are new but my guess is they will be booming soon since they charge nothing.