Where should you tutor, if you still have the COVID virus alive and spreading around you? For me the answer is easy, because I’m germ-paranoid: ONLINE! I’ve written several posts about tutoring online:
Online Tutoring: Keep it Personal
But today I’m going to address tutoring in person (no pun intended). Maybe you know all about that, but the pandemic adds a few complications to your normal tutoring routine. Here are some suggestions:
- Add to your written tutoring policies a section on adapting your routine to the virus.
- Institute hand-washing before and after the tutoring session. Turn the water on and off yourself, and spray liquid hand soap into the student’s hands.
- Sanitize the desk before and after each student.
- Sanitize the writing implements between students.
- Keep hand sanitizer nearby, and have your student use it before and after reading each book.
- Encourage (or require) the parents to have their children vaccinated for COVID.
- Ask the parents to keep their children home if they have any virus symptoms, even if they say that it’s just a cold or that they’ve tested “negative.”
- Ask the parents to keep their children home if anyone in the family has the virus or has been exposed to the virus.
- Have two copies of every book, one for the student and one for you.
- Keep holders for used and sanitized writing implements.
- Sanitize your doorbells and doorknobs after each student.
This sounds like a lot to take care of, doesn’t it? And, if you were tutoring at your student’s home, you would have even less control over the variables.
Is this enough to spur you to tutor online? If so, check out these posts for some suggestions for online tutoring, and enjoy this new arena.
Online Tutoring: Keep it Personal
Happy tutoring, wherever you are!
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