Free Online Teaching Course
Tutoring and Online Teaching
Online teaching works better when lessons, feedback, and learner support feel planned. Join this free online teaching course to guide virtual learners with confidence.
About this course
This free online teaching course introduces how tutoring and virtual lessons can be planned, delivered, and improved for different learners. You learn beginner skills such as lesson goals, explanations, examples, questioning, feedback, class flow, learner motivation, and simple online teaching tools. The course is useful for new tutors and aspiring educators.
You also study how to adapt a lesson, manage attention, support practice, respond to doubts, and review learning progress. These lessons help you make tutoring sessions clearer, create more organized online classes, and prepare for deeper study in teaching methods, instructional design, classroom communication, or subject-specific tutoring.
Course outline
What Makes Tutoring Effective
This is the module where you will understand the difference between tutoring and classroom instruction, basics of learner-centered approach, tutor session structure, tutor session format, tutor ethics, and the art of building trust with your learners.
Knowing Your Learner
This is the module where you will learn about ages and developmental stage, learning style, motivation, special needs, culture, and the use of diagnostic conversation for the development of your learner profiles.
Designing Sessions That Work
This is the module where you will learn about objective writing, sequencing of content, scaffolding, task differentiation, time management, material selection, and fine-tuning of your lesson plans from your tutor sessions.
Teaching in the Virtual Classroom
This is the module where you will learn about platform choice, preparation of your tutoring environment, whiteboard and collaboration tools, file management, and online privacy.
Keeping Learners Engaged Online
This module offers knowledge about communication, body language while online, questioning, attention-grabbing, feedback for motivation, silence and confusion management, and creation of a secure online environment.
Measuring and Communicating Progress
This module will guide you through the process of creating fast assessments, quizzes, rubrics, monitoring progress, establishing milestones, making corrections, communicating with the parents, and encouraging assessment by learners.
Managing the Learning Environment
This module will guide you through the process of establishing expectations, managing disruptions, dealing with group dynamics, managing cancellations, conserving your energy, and developing learner accountability processes.
Growing as a Tutor and Educator
This module is devoted to such topics as tutoring ethics, confidentiality, reflections, use of feedback, portfolios, marketing, fee establishment, client relations, and professional development planning.
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