The Benefits of Virtual Tutoring
Over the past two years, the world has witnessed virtual appointments becoming the new norm. The pandemic has helped clients, patients, and professionals realize that redirecting in-person meetings to FaceTime or Zoom is incredibly beneficial. ALB Tutoring was ahead of this trend, collaborating with students virtually since 2015.
Alessandra, Founder of ALB Tutoring, chose to virtually engage students to build in automatic applications of their learning. From the first session, students learn and implement planning skills and executive functioning techniques. Students and parents agree that virtual meetings help rediscover self-esteem, kickstarting an improvement in the functioning of other interconnected realms of academics and life.
How students benefit from virtual therapeutic collaborations with ALB Tutoring:
Becoming more prepared, responsible, and self-advocating: Virtual meetings with ALB Tutoring hold students accountable - they punctually log onto FaceTime or Zoom and come prepared with tasks on which they want to collaborate. Meeting virtually, thus, requires that students budget their time and begin to strategize study plans - skills they are working on developing with ALB Tutoring - prior to the meeting so that they use their time efficiently and effectively. With ALB Tutoring, students learn by doing.
Learning how to function in the real world: When meeting virtually from home or another quiet space, students can be distracted by doorbells, washing machines, barking dogs, and household chatter. During sessions, ALB Tutoring notices these nuances which serve as input to further personalize collaboration. By interacting with students within their respective spheres of reality, ALB Tutoring develops deeper working relationships to help students develop and apply skills and strategies to be successful.
Having scheduling flexibility & broadening accessibility: Meeting virtually allows for more flexibility. Students are available to meet during school days, free periods, and even last minute if something comes up. Distances are shortened between ALB Tutoring and boarding schools, travel, and study abroad experiences. This holds students accountable for their scheduling and awareness, granting them more opportunity to collaborate with ALB Tutoring.
Using technology to their advantage: Technology can be an exceptionally distracting tool yet has an incredible has potential for productivity. When virtually collaborating with ALB Tutoring, students use software (like online whiteboards, research databases, Google Drive, and Wolframalpha) to facilitate their learning. These tools supplement solving problems, drawing graphs, and answering questions in all subject areas. Alessandra also helps students remain focused, by intuitively sensing when they are texting on their computer or looking at their phone, and redirects their attention back to the task at hand.
Enhancing personal growth through connection: When meeting in person, there are many stimuli to attend to. So, though students and professionals may be engaging with one another, their energy also flows elsewhere. When meeting virtually, students remain more attentive to the on-screen exchange. Fewer stimuli - like physical cues, sights, and sounds - allow for more attention to be directed to the interaction and its content. As a result, students are more attentive to the relationship, fostering more profound growth.
Meeting in person has its benefits: professionals find it helpful to see clients’ body language - how they present themselves at the start of appointments, physical reactions during sessions, and changes that have transpired by the end of sessions. However, these cues are not lost in virtual meetings: body language is still visible and the camera’s focus on faces makes it easier to witness emotions and responses. This strengthens the mutual connection and challenges clients to verbalize the feelings they can't demonstrate physically on screen; professionals can engage this metacognition (thinking about thinking) about how one feels and acts by directly questioning, yielding concrete responses. Client progress is built into session work.
Student progress is testament to virtual therapeutic collaborations being here to stay. Contact ALB Tutoring to help your student learn better.
