Instructional Methods: Activities to Include in Your Lesson Plans

Each student has his or her own learning style. In order to create an effective lesson plan that meets all of these different needs, teachers, tutors, and home school parents should include a variety of instructional methods. This article outlines several useful teaching methods.

How to Find New and Creative Lesson Plans

If your lesson plans bore you, you can be sure your students have lost interest as well. This article provides teachers, parents, and tutors with tips for finding new and inventive ways to reach children.

Online Tutoring 2 of 5: Online Tutoring and Traditional Tutoring Methods

As the second article from an informational series on Online Tutoring, this feature aims to clarify how online tutoring differs from other out-of-the-classroom programs including private tutors, online homework help sites, after-school programs, and computer software programs.

Subjects Tutors Commonly Teach

Basic reading, writing, and problem solving skills are among the most important skills for any student to learn. They are also the skills that many students have the most trouble with. This article discusses how tutors can help.

How to Be the Link Between Your Child's Teacher and Tutor

Three people play integral roles in your child's education: teachers, tutors, and you. As the parent, you are the most important players because you are the line of communication between the teacher and tutor. Read on to learn more about communicating and exchanging ideas with both of them.

DIY: Parents As Tutors

Because many parents are on a budget, tutoring their own children is the only affordable alternative to private tutoring. This article describes how to decide if the parent-tutoring is the right fit for you.

Interview Questions for a Potential Tutor

Tutors vary in terms of teaching styles and quality of instruction, so it is critical to interview a potential instructor before choosing one for your child. Here are some questions to be answered before entrusting your child's educational future with a tutor.

Typing Games Increase Coordination and Open Doors

Having great typing skills and hand coordination means more to children today than it did even ten years ago. These days it's assumed that by a certain age your child should be familiar with the computer keyboard. Take advantage of online games and the in-home projects suggested in this article to help sharpen your child's typing skills.

Don't Let your Child Struggle with Words

Most students, at some point in their academic careers, will struggle with their reading skills. Parents can be on the lookout for possible signs of trouble. Parents can turn to online tutors, face to face tutors, or choose to work directly with their child. Read on to learn more.

Elementary Reading Help: Helping your 5th and 6th Grader Understand Poetry

Poetry uses a language of its own. Parents can help their elementary aged children with poetry by providing them with the proper terminology and its meanings.