http://blog.ziizoo.com/2007/12/12/on-the-art-of-tutoring-online/ a blog for the ziizoo community Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:50:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 http://blog.ziizoo.com/2007/12/12/on-the-art-of-tutoring-online/#comment-1319 jseguritan Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:27:09 +0000 http://blog.ziizoo.com/2007/12/12/on-the-art-of-tutoring-online/#comment-1319 Kate brings up a very good point regarding time management during a session. In the absence of visual cues, it usually takes a while to figure out how much time a student needs to wrap his or her mind around a concept or problem-solving approach. On a first pass, I often use a 2-minute rule to allow the student to constructively "struggle" with the question, since these instances truly are the breeding grounds of internalization of ideas and concepts. Sometimes, I will check on a student by asking "Any ideas?" or "How's it going with that?" so they can signal whether they are banging their head against the desk or just on the cusp of understanding. But remember, you can always break down a question to even smaller questions that allow you to understand where a student may be hitting a wall. In order to avoid the time management conundrum, I've even suggested to the platform developers that a button to toggle between paid and unpaid time would be very useful and fair! Kate brings up a very good point regarding time management during a session. In the absence of visual cues, it usually takes a while to figure out how much time a student needs to wrap his or her mind around a concept or problem-solving approach. On a first pass, I often use a 2-minute rule to allow the student to constructively “struggle” with the question, since these instances truly are the breeding grounds of internalization of ideas and concepts. Sometimes, I will check on a student by asking “Any ideas?” or “How’s it going with that?” so they can signal whether they are banging their head against the desk or just on the cusp of understanding. But remember, you can always break down a question to even smaller questions that allow you to understand where a student may be hitting a wall. In order to avoid the time management conundrum, I’ve even suggested to the platform developers that a button to toggle between paid and unpaid time would be very useful and fair!

]]> http://blog.ziizoo.com/2007/12/12/on-the-art-of-tutoring-online/#comment-1320 Robert Einspruch Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:19:40 +0000 http://blog.ziizoo.com/2007/12/12/on-the-art-of-tutoring-online/#comment-1320 Perhaps tutors should recommend students using "emoticons" or something simple like that so students can indicate their status without explicitly saying "I am thinking". To Jeffrey's point, in the long run we will enable tutors to toggle billing on and off during sessions to allow for things like breaks, trips to the bathroom, etc. Perhaps tutors should recommend students using “emoticons” or something simple like that so students can indicate their status without explicitly saying “I am thinking”. To Jeffrey’s point, in the long run we will enable tutors to toggle billing on and off during sessions to allow for things like breaks, trips to the bathroom, etc.

]]> http://blog.ziizoo.com/2007/12/12/on-the-art-of-tutoring-online/#comment-3680 denise Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:15:21 +0000 http://blog.ziizoo.com/2007/12/12/on-the-art-of-tutoring-online/#comment-3680 how do u get ppl? how do u get ppl?

]]> http://blog.ziizoo.com/2007/12/12/on-the-art-of-tutoring-online/#comment-4656 createmo Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:02:33 +0000 http://blog.ziizoo.com/2007/12/12/on-the-art-of-tutoring-online/#comment-4656 Thank you for your website ;-) I made on photoshop backgrounds for myspace and youtube and whatever my backgrounds:http://tinyurl.com/6kw9wq have a good day and thank you again! Thank you for your website
I made on photoshop backgrounds for myspace and youtube and whatever
my backgrounds:http://tinyurl.com/6kw9wq
have a good day and thank you again!

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