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Education Tools & Resources. Online equation graphers, solvers, chemical equation balancer, molar mass calculator, and many more! Hope you like them! Helpful Suggestions for Tutors. Ways for tutors, music teachers, and instructors to build their business and find employmnet / tutoring clients. Homework help. If you are stuck on an assignment, maybe one of our tutors can help. Email your questions to: admin@ tutor-homework.com (remove space after @). Please allow 6 to 12 hours for a reply. Also include a deadline for the tutor. You may call 918-850-5925, but "short notice" assignments will cost more. Tips for Hiring A Tutor or Music Teacher#1 Learning Is Ultimately the Responsibility of the Student! A tutor or a music teacher is only a tool. True understanding of any school material will only come from work which takes time. This is up to the student. For a tutor to explain everything you need to know would be time-consuming and therefore prohibitively expensive! Once you find a tutor, The best way for you to use a tutor is to try to do as much of the work yourself as possible, then bring questions to the tutor so that he/she can smooth over the rough areas for you. If you rely on the tutor to explain everything and if you do most of your studying only when the tutor is present, then your grades will probably not be very good. This is especially true with difficult subjects such as math, chemistry, & phsyics. #2 Problem Solving Is THE BEST Method of Studying. Studying... The best way to study math and sciences that require math is this: Read the chapter, but don't expect full understanding while you are reading; that will come later. Don't dwell too much on a topic if you are not understanding it completely as you're reading. THEN... at the end of the chapter (and maybe throughout the chapter) there will be problems for you to solve. THIS is where the true understanding should come into view for most students. Usually there are odd numbered problems answered in the back of the book. DO THOSE PROBLEMS!!! It is VERY important that students get feedback so that they can know if they are solving the problems correctly. That feedback comes from trying to solve the problem and seeing if you get the correct answer (shown in the back of the book). Getting the right answer isn't the important part, rather it is the PROCESS used to get the right answer that is important. If you come to a problem that you are having difficulty with, save that problem to ask your teacher or tutor about. Do NOT forget that problem or ignore it because it is important that you understand it before moving too much further along in the book. By solving as many problems as you can, you will be well-prepared for the exams and/or quizzes that the teacher will give you in class. In fact, you might be so well-prepared that it seems too easy. Yes, this takes a lot of time. Often this can take an hour or two per day (more difficult topics/levels might require more time) for each subject... At least 5 days of the week. #3 Do NOT Use a Tutor For Cheating! If you rely on a tutor to give you answers, you will not do very good on the exams and quizzes. Your homework grades may improve quite a bit if you do this, but your exam scores will suffer and your grade will not improve. Using a tutor for cheating is a bad idea. Instead what my students have had great success with is this: Do all the homework problems that you can and show them to your tutor and ask him or her to point out any mistakes that you have made. This way you are getting feedback and learning from your mistakes. #4 Is Your Tutor or Music Teacher Experienced? When you search for a tutor or music teacher, keep in mind that the experience of the tutor is important. The tutor's or music teacher's credentials are also important, but not as much. If the tutor or music teacher does not seem to be helping you, then you should either get another tutor or try something different in your study habbits / practice. Often for the more basic levels, a tutor or music teacher with a degree is not necessary. For example if a student is studying basic math or introductory algebra, you might consider hiring a high school or college student with no degree, as long as they can explain the material and communicate well. This will save you a great deal of money! #5 $hop Around! (This is the main reason I built this website!) Tutors and music teachers cost money, and sometimes they charge up to $50 per hour! (I only charge $15 to $20 per hour). You should expect a higher cost if the material is difficult or requires a degree. A professional with a degree typically earns $30 to $50 per hour working in industry. Tutoring is also an "industry" and the tutor has to earn a living. Tutors in more metropolitan areas (New York City, LA, etc.) typically have much higher rates also -- because the cost of living is so high in those places. Anyway, in your search for a tutor, SHOP AROUND until you find a tutor that will give you a good price! There are many good online tutors in India who charge quite a lot less than American tutors, but online communication is nowhere near as efficient as face-to-face tutoring. However, the online (email or chat room)tutors are great for homework help. Also keep in mind that you often get what you pay for. (FYI: online tutoring is NOT effective for learning music, so you music students would be better off buying a video or taped lesson than paying for online music lessons.) Tutoring companies often will hire tutors who do not have degrees and they pay their tutors very little. As a result tutoring companies do not always provide good tutors (if the tutor was good, they would strike out on their own!). With a private tutor, you run a slight risk of the tutor not having a background check, etc. But as long as you and the tutor understand that you are to ALWAYS MEET IN A PUBLIC PLACE, you should be quite safe. ASK FOR REFERENCES! Just use common sense and you should be very safe. I'll repeat this, b/c it's important: #6 ALWAYS MEET IN A PUBLIC PLACE! That's for the protection of the student AND the tutor. If the student and tutor need to meet at the student's or tutors home, make sure there will always be more than one person (an adult!) besides the student at home. DO NOT make an exception for this rule. ********************* Index of our tutors, music teachers, coaches and instructors: Tutor Profiles  Sites for parents (and educators). Here are a few links: Lesson Plans Educational Resources for both Parents & Teachers. Online Education Program Directory Tutor Directory Listings by Discipline... |
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