Online Tuitions – Are You Serious?

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In schools many students have diverse learning abilities and are unable to keep pace with the education imparted as a single teacher teaches a minimum group of 20-30 students at the same time. A constraint to complete the course curriculum within the academic year compels these students to engage tutors who impart tuitions after school hours. These tuitions can be imparted by tutors through home visitations or through online tuitions. Online tuitions facilitate teaching of various subjects to students through e-learning products and materials. The main services offered are academic assistance to school students, Test Preparation and Application assistance. Online tuitions helps students’ learning and helps them develop conceptual clarity, apply these concepts in problem solving by practicing tests extensively and monitor performance through regular assessments conducted by the pedagogy.

Online tutions: Technology
There is an extensive use of technology to provide the best online tuition services to its students. An example of its technology is Mentoraide which enables students to be remotely tutored via computers in the conventional notebook and pen style. Mentoraide uses a whiteboard and stylus system in which both the teacher and the student can write on a digital whiteboard using a stylus pen which is akin to writing on a notebook. This enables the experience of online tuitions to be more real and natural.

Mentoraide provides the following benefits for online tuitions: In Math tuitions, each student and his tutor interact one-on-one over an online whiteboard, where both can write (using a stylus pen) just as they would on a real whiteboard. The tutor will guide the learner during the problem solving stage at each step of developing his clarity. This enables the student to solve successive similar problems independently

Mentoring: Apart from a tutor teaching the student and assessing his development, an independent mentor can be provided who tracks progress of up to 30 students in each program. The mentor reviews the tutoring sessions and spots learning difficulties of the student by observing and monitoring his class activities and assessment scores. The mentor also conducts customized tests of students to evaluate their learning stage.

MathRating: MathRating is a rating and reward system for a student and indicates the student’s development in learning Math by quantifying the progress made by students through an objective analysis of his performance. The mentor is responsible for ensuring a good score on MathRating by each student.

The above technology is just one of the examples of how online tuitions provide great benefits in areas of learning, performance assessment and overall development of the student within a given time period. Every such online tuition provider optimizes its technology and resources in the best possible manner to become a leading online tuition service provider of the country.

Content for online tuitions
A holistic approach is needed to use online tuitions effectively for a student’s overall learning requirement. Various forms of teaching are used to enable a student to achieve excellent academic scores. These teaching styles may vary from collaborative learning, fun filled activities to enable active participation and individual mentoring and guidance for customized teaching. The teaching process should include:

1. Objective-Student and tutor identify the aim and purpose of the session

2. Material Required- The tutor recommends learning material that is required by the student

3. Procedure- The tutor is also provided with teaching material and instructions to facilitate ease of imparting knowledge as per the student’s capabilities

4. Assessment and Evaluation- The tutor is provided criteria for assessment and evaluation to assess the progress of the students.

5. Student Sheet-Data sheet and worksheet are used to evaluate the student’s grasp of education imparted by the tutor

Teaching tools and guides for pedagogy
Online tuition is made more effective by providing the necessary tools and material to its tutors for imparting the best education to their students. To facilitate this, technology led solutions are used to assist tutors in instructing and enabling effective problem solving. It helps tutors to address some of the following challenges that they face in their daily teaching practices:

1. To ensure that every student is developing his learning and comprehension skills in spite of having a unique learning style

2. To engage the student while learning and establish interest in the curriculum

3. To teach abstract or complex concepts that are difficult to grasp by students

4. To enable a creative and an open mind for students to move to higher level of thinking

5. To instantly and continuously assess the student’s learning ability and identify areas of student strength and weakness in order to customize teaching process

While addressing the above challenges of tutors in online tuitions, teaching material and guide tools are developed that enable tutors to impart education and monitor student results effectively.

Teaching material for online Tuitions
To provide the best online tuition experience to its students digital instruction materials are used that are designed to achieve excellence in every curriculum chosen by the students. It seeks to support academicians through computer aided learning materials, modular content and online learning environments. The teaching material is continuously developed and populated through inter school collaboration, pedagogy support and alliances with independent content developers.
The teaching material consists of curriculum specific modules built with an Instructor led design that allows the teacher to effectively transact the lesson in a typical classroom of diverse set of learners. The modules are embedded in a template that allow the teachers to teach a chosen lesson in class, frame by frame, with engaging and instructionally sound animated set of visuals while retaining complete control on the pace of delivery .

One of the more successful companies which provide online tuitions is Learning Hour.

Learning Hour is an online, educational-assistance portal that offers a complete suite of assistance services to students in India and across the world.

The salient features of Learning hour’s instruction modules are as follows:

1. Highly Animated and very little text to enable interest based learning and active participation
2. Option to turn off the voiceover to allow teaches to use discuss live with students
3. Logical breaks after every 10-15 seconds to allow teachers to pause and engage the classroom and provide additional inputs.
4. Instructionally designed to allow the content to adapt to the teachers teaching style.
5. Aligned to content standards of the school – thus exactly as per the curriculum.

Home Tuition – A Necessity in Singapore

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The education system in Singapore could be termed as one of the worlds leading and notably it was chosen by the British Education Minister Michael Gove, to be praised as one amongst the top educational systems in the world. There also exists a political ideology in Singapore called Meritocracy, which advocates the principle of grooming and nurturing potential young students for leadership positions. The present education system in Singapore calls for extra effort from the students to come up with meritorious results, doesn’t matter how prestigious or highly acclaimed the school is. This happens because the student to teacher ratio is weaker in the schools, and it becomes very difficult for the teachers in these schools to provide individual attention to the students. According to statistics in the Singapore Education Statistics Digest 2008, numbers of students enrolled in various levels of schools are more than 500,000 and the number of teachers employed in these schools is less than 28,000, which makes the weak teacher to student ratio evident. So, students, to remain competitive and score good grades, resort to home tuition. Many studies and surveys have revealed that over 90 % of students in Singapore rely on tuition, be it through a tuition center or by a home tutor.

What are the advantages of home tuition?

The primary advantage of home tuition is ‘individual attention’, which is not available in schools and which also becomes the most important reason for having a home tutor. Another important aspect is the convenience with timing, as the home tutor could visit the student’s home at the most convenient hours, and the student doesn’t have a need to travel anywhere for tuition as what happens with tuition centers. One to one interaction, typical only to home tuition, helps the tutor to understand which all areas the student is weak in and concentrate on improving the same by focusing more on them. As the student develops good rapport with the tutor, he or she becomes more confident and tends to clear all apprehensions and doubts regarding any of the academic chapters, which the respective student would have hesitated to ask the teacher in a classroom. A good home tutor would also include relevant examples and scenarios to describe a particular part in any subject, so that the student understands the same much better than when it was taught in the school. A good home tutor might also help the student with some easy to remember techniques for difficult chapters along with additional tips to perform well in the exams, and help the student score excellent grades in the exams.

Why home tuition is preferred over tuition centers?

Even though many tuition centers claim that they provide one-to-one attention for their students, it is very difficult to understand how this will work when the scenario is much similar to that in a school where the teacher to student ratio is very weak. Even if such a tuition center really provides what it claims, the student will end spending more time traveling than the actual tuition session itself.

Betta Fish Disease Treatment

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In the article below, I have talked about the possible causes and the best treatments for the most common Betta Fish sicknesses.

One of the most common mistakes you can make when treating the fish is inaccurately determining the appropriate dose. It is vital that you know how much water is in your fish tank so you can provide the exact amount of medicine.

Betta Illness – Fungus Infection
Fungus is easily preventable by using either aquarium salt or Aquarisol to your tank regularly. While fungus is contagious to your other fish, your Betta will recover if you begin treatment in the early stages. Make sure to thoroughly clean the entire fish tank completely once the Betta is cured.

The best treatment is to administer Fungus Eliminator and BettaZing at the same time – this will get rid of virtually any kind of fungus infections. You must administer approximately forty grains of Fungus Eliminator for every half gallon of water. With BettaZing you are required to administer eight drops per gallon. You usually can purchase both of these items at your nearby pet store, or order them on the internet.

Betta Disease – Ick
Ick is another highly contagious illness that is easily prevented by adding Aquarisol and/or Aquarium salt to your water regularly. Since Ick is very contagious it’s safest to safeguard the whole fish tank, not just your Betta.

Ick is extremely sensitive to temperature, so if you use a heater, raise the temperature of the tank to 85 Fahrenheit. Add a single drop of Aquarisol for each gallon of water. Do this daily until one or two days after your fish are recovered. It won’t take more than three to five days to heal your Betta fish.

Betta Fish Disease – Tail or Fin Rot
Fin rot usually comes from filthy water or a filthy fish tank. If you keep your Betta’s water really clean, he should never be stricken with Fin Rot. The good news is it’s not contagious and is easily curable. Usually|While|Generally] the lost parts of tail and/or fin will regenerate, they may alter color or grow back a little shorter than the original.

Maracyn I and II combined at the same time will usually get rid of early stages of Fin Rot. These medications are easy to find at most local pet shops. Prior to depositing in your fish tank, the tablets must be thoroughly crushed. Deposit half the required amount of the two meds. Make sure not to go overboard! Every full tablet is good for a 10 gallon fish tank, so if you own a 5 gallon fish tank, use one fourth of each medicine (not half!).

You could need something more powerful if the Fin rot is in the advanced stages. You should administer Tetracycline or Ampicillin. These medications are harder to find. Try a big pet store or order them on the internet.

With any treatment, it can be as much as four weeks before the fins or tail stop receding and begin to grow back, so be vigilant and don’t get discouraged! You can stop administering the meds once you see your Betta fish’s tail and/or fins begin to grow back.

Betta Fish Disease – Velvet
Velvet is the number one killer of Betta fries:(~The number one killer of Betta fries is the parasite Velvet.} Typically if you add Aquarisol your Betta will not be exposed to this parasite. Although quarantine your Betta and administer meds to him separately, you should also treat the rest of your fish tank because Velvet is extremely contageous. Be certain to clean your fish net and all other tools in or near the tank. Place the tank in a dark location, and administer 12 drops of BettaZing for each gallon of water.

Betta Illness – Popeye
Popeye is a bacterial infection that comes from by dirty water. Your Betta Fish will generally make a full recovery, but it is possible your Betta loses his eye if you discover it too late. To treat Popeye, it’s important to make sure the tank water is super clean. Change the water every three days. The antibiotic Ampicillin will work wonders, but is challenging to use with small tanks since it comes in a capsule that works for a 10 gallon tank. Continue using the drug Ampicillin until one week to ten days after the Popeye has disappeared.

Betta Fish Illness – Dropsy
Dropsy is thought to come from giving your Betta contaminated live food, for instance, black worms. The bacteria that spreads Dropsy is contageous so make sure to separate your sick Betta fish. There is unfortunately no cure, but sometimes with a very mild case your Betta may heal on his own.

Betta Fish Illness – Tuberculoses
Tuberculoses is thought to originate from dirty live foods. It could be as long as six months before your Betta displays any signs of infection. Unfortunately, not only is there no known cure, but it is extremely spreadable, lethal to almost all other sea life, and difficult to get rid of. Even bleach cannot sanitize against it. You will most likely have to get rid of your bowl, tank, net and all other gear.

Jason Andrews is a Betta Fish enthusiast who has collected and bred Bettas for over 20 years. He currently is caring for several different varieties, and is attempting to breed the perfect halfmoon Betta. Make sure to read his blog for information on Betta Fish Mating and the best ways to care for your Betta.