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How to Highlight Your Online Tutoring Experience on Your Résumé

Online tutors utilize a variety of skills every day that can help them to secure work at the next stage of their career.

Customer Service Concepts That Apply to Online Tutoring

How to Make Students Feel More Comfortable in Online Classes

How to Write Great Lesson Notes

How to "Soften" Your Language in Online Lessons

Why Students Pretend Not to Have Questions

“Do you have any questions?” you ask your student. “No,” they reply. But you know that they struggled with a...

Important Things to Know Before Teaching Korean Students 🇰🇷

After the Japanese, Koreans form our next largest group of students. Besides not using -san with their name, what other...

Ha Ha Ha! When We Should (and Shouldn’t) Joke Around with Students

Have you joked around with a student and then noticed that they didn’t look entertained? Or worse, have you ever...

How to Get Shy Students to Warm Up to You 🙈🙉

You’ve probably realized that many of our students are shy. This is partly cultural; East Asians (i.e. most of our...

Important Things to Know Before Teaching Japanese Students 🇯🇵

Japan takes the word, “non-confrontational,” to a new level. At my university in the US, I sometimes attended lectures in...

How We've Grown Through Online Tutoring

When we interview tutors for this blog, many of them mention how they've grown personally and professionally. As the saying...

Don't Know the Answer to a Student's Question? Try These Strategies.

Your student asks a question. You don’t know the answer or can’t answer right away. Do you: Secretly look up...