| arents seeking online tutoring for their children, or | | | | teaches them to resist distractions and focus can |
| private tuition in their home, will be focusing on | | | | work wonders. |
| academic achievement. Perhaps their child is | | | | Under-achievement can be as frustrating for |
| under-achieving in a particular subject, or requires | | | | learners as it is for parents and teachers. A |
| catch-up help due to illness or absence. Ambitious | | | | learner who is known for being bottom of the |
| parents may want to ensure that their gifted child | | | | class may come to suffer from problems of |
| receives more input than busy school teachers | | | | self-esteem that extend beyond schoolwork and |
| can provide. | | | | into the social and emotional domains. Online tutors |
| Online tutoring and private tuition can indeed | | | | who provide encouragement and reassurance |
| confer these benefits, helping young learners to | | | | along with practical instruction can make a big |
| master a given subject, or to move from | | | | difference. Fostering a sense of achievement that, |
| achieving average test results to exceptional | | | | in turn, boosts learners’ motivation, can |
| grades. However, there is more to achievement, | | | | also be one of the most rewarding experiences |
| and to educational success, than grades. Online | | | | for online tutors. |
| tutoring and private tuition can both assist young | | | | Under-achieving is not limited to children with |
| learners in domains beyond academic | | | | learning difficulties, whether those derive from a |
| achievement. | | | | problem such as dyslexia or ADHD or from a |
| Above all else, private tuition and online tutoring | | | | school or home environment that is not conducive |
| typically both emphasize one-to-one, personalized | | | | to effective learning. Intelligent children who do not |
| attention. Some young learners will have received | | | | receive the stimulation they require in the |
| little attention of this kind. Sometimes it’s a | | | | classroom context may, out of boredom, resort |
| matter of large classes in which the | | | | to playing up and acting out. Private tuition, or |
| teacher’s attention to individual needs is | | | | online tutoring, can assist here too, by providing |
| inevitably diluted by the demands of the group. | | | | that stimulation and helping learners to realize the |
| Learners whose achievement is neither worrying | | | | importance of achieving their own, individual |
| nor brilliant may not get the extra attention that | | | | potential. |
| gifted children, or children whose learning is | | | | All learners deserve to feel special, no matter |
| impaired, receive. Learners of all skill levels may | | | | what their abilities. Through online tutoring learners |
| come into their own with individual private tuition. | | | | can be helped to appreciate their own strengths, |
| For learners who do struggle with a subject, or | | | | at the same time as they receive assistance with |
| with learning generally, online tutors who provide | | | | any areas of learning where they display |
| private tuition can be more than just subject | | | | weaknesses. Without that feeling of self-worth, |
| coaches. Experienced and qualified online tutors will | | | | young learners may have little motivation to |
| recognize learning difficulties that can benefit from | | | | engage, yet alone perform well in their academic |
| specialist attention. For learners with attention and | | | | studies. |
| concentration problems, individual assistance that | | | | |