Home Tutoring as a profession has been growing steadily over the last few years. So who is a home tutor? In simple terms, any self proclaimed tutor, qualified tutors, tutor aspirants who provide their services at their convenience from their homes are Home Tutors. The tutoring service could either be one on one at the student or the teacher’s residence.
At present, there is a great demand of home tutors due to many reasons. One of the key advantages that online and offline home tutoring offers is personal attention to the needs of the student. The kind of problem that a student faces in his learning path is numerous and diversified. Online Home tutors are a good solution to help students overcome their problems and bring them on the right learning track. However, hiring a home tutor is not free! The good news is that home tutors come at reasonable and affordable costs when students and tutors embrace and leverage on technology for teaching.
Online tutoring services from companies such as Dragon English makes the personalized learning process of your kid affordable. Every kid is special in its true self. Some kids need extra help and attention while some may grasp enough at school. A school can neither provide the personalized attention that the student needs nor can that change teaching methods to suit an individual student. A home tutor in comparison to this will make your kid practice a topic and would stay flexible on their teaching styles to support students grow up the learning curve.
The psychology factor involved in teaching a student is grossly undermined especially during the initial stages of schooling. We cannot blame a school as there are only a limited number of teachers to support a substantially large class of students. Hiring an online home tutor would be an ideal solution to this problem.
Looking to improve your kid’s grades through affordable solutions? Online home tutors are your ideal solution.
We at www.DragonEnglish.com support parents cause and bridge the gap in demand and supply and provide quality English education to Asian students with real time tutors online. Visit us now at www.DragonEnglish.com
Authored by
Bharath Balakrishnan – Founder: www.DragonEnglish.com
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Inspirational Stories - Brighten Up Your Day
A Piece of My Heart
By: Author Unknown
Shared to Dragon English by:
Raymond Lim
Consultant at HR partners
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/raymond77
One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was not a mark or a flaw in it. Yes, they all agreed it truly was the most beautiful heart they had ever seen. The young man was very proud and boasted more loudly about his beautiful heart.
Suddenly, an old man appeared at the front of the crowd and said "Why, your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine." The crowd and the young man looked at the old man's heart. It was beating strongly, but it was full of scars. It had places where pieces had been removed and other pieces put in, but they didn't fit quite right and there were several jagged edges. In fact, in some places there were deep gouges where whole pieces were missing.
The people stared -- how can he say his heart is more beautiful, they thought? The young man looked at the old man's heart and saw its state and laughed. "You must be joking," he said. "Compare your heart with mine. Mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars and tears."
"Yes," said the old man, "yours is perfect looking but I would never trade with you. You see, every scar represents a person to whom I have given my love - I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them, and often they give me a piece of their heart which fits into the empty place in my heart, but because the pieces aren't exact, I have some rough edges, which I cherish, because they remind me of the love we shared."
"Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away, and the other person hasn't returned a piece of his heart to me. These are the empty gouges -- giving love, is taking a chance. Although these gouges are painful, they stay open, reminding me of the love I have for these people too, and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I have waiting. So now do you see what true beauty is?"
The young man stood silently with tears running down his cheeks. He walked up to the old man, reached into his perfect young and beautiful heart and ripped a piece out. He offered it to the old man with trembling hands. The old man took his offering, placed it in his heart and then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the wound in the young man's heart. It fit, but not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges. The young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, since love from the old man's heart flowed into his.
Presented by
Bharath Balakrishnan
Founder: www.DragonEnglish.com
Blog:http://dragonenglishcommunity.blogspot.com
www.DragonEnglish.com is an online English tutoring and learning portal connecting hundreds of English teachers from around the world to students of Asia. Our motto is to empower and build global professionals. We wish to achieve this by enabling education through E-learning at least and affordable costs. We promote real time online tutoring through our learning management system and integrated web conferencing system.
The initiative is also aimed at providing a substantial income to teachers, teacher aspirants, graduate and under graduate students or work from home parents from US, UK and other countries by providing them a legitimate work from home opportunity.
We are actively seeking Teachers to join our panel. Visit us now at www.DragonEnglish.com
By: Author Unknown
Shared to Dragon English by:
Raymond Lim
Consultant at HR partners
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/raymond77
One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was not a mark or a flaw in it. Yes, they all agreed it truly was the most beautiful heart they had ever seen. The young man was very proud and boasted more loudly about his beautiful heart.
Suddenly, an old man appeared at the front of the crowd and said "Why, your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine." The crowd and the young man looked at the old man's heart. It was beating strongly, but it was full of scars. It had places where pieces had been removed and other pieces put in, but they didn't fit quite right and there were several jagged edges. In fact, in some places there were deep gouges where whole pieces were missing.
The people stared -- how can he say his heart is more beautiful, they thought? The young man looked at the old man's heart and saw its state and laughed. "You must be joking," he said. "Compare your heart with mine. Mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars and tears."
"Yes," said the old man, "yours is perfect looking but I would never trade with you. You see, every scar represents a person to whom I have given my love - I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them, and often they give me a piece of their heart which fits into the empty place in my heart, but because the pieces aren't exact, I have some rough edges, which I cherish, because they remind me of the love we shared."
"Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away, and the other person hasn't returned a piece of his heart to me. These are the empty gouges -- giving love, is taking a chance. Although these gouges are painful, they stay open, reminding me of the love I have for these people too, and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I have waiting. So now do you see what true beauty is?"
The young man stood silently with tears running down his cheeks. He walked up to the old man, reached into his perfect young and beautiful heart and ripped a piece out. He offered it to the old man with trembling hands. The old man took his offering, placed it in his heart and then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the wound in the young man's heart. It fit, but not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges. The young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, since love from the old man's heart flowed into his.
Presented by
Bharath Balakrishnan
Founder: www.DragonEnglish.com
Blog:http://dragonenglishcommunity.blogspot.com
www.DragonEnglish.com is an online English tutoring and learning portal connecting hundreds of English teachers from around the world to students of Asia. Our motto is to empower and build global professionals. We wish to achieve this by enabling education through E-learning at least and affordable costs. We promote real time online tutoring through our learning management system and integrated web conferencing system.
The initiative is also aimed at providing a substantial income to teachers, teacher aspirants, graduate and under graduate students or work from home parents from US, UK and other countries by providing them a legitimate work from home opportunity.
We are actively seeking Teachers to join our panel. Visit us now at www.DragonEnglish.com
Strategies for Success
Authored by Lew Smallwood
Dynagroup Online (Mob:+61(0)412-546-995)
Skype: dynagrouponline
Email: lew.smallwood@gmail.com
Blog: http://dynagroup-online.blogspot.com
The great therapist Milton Ericson once stated: In the presence of rapport, anything is possible. Rapport is generally defined as the establishment of trust, harmony and cooperation in a relationship. So learning how to create rapport; and develop a deep connection with others will certainly help us to communicate much more effectively. It's said that when people are like each other, they will more readily like each other. When people are not like each other, they will not so readily like each other. When you like someone, you are more willing to assist them, and help them get whatever they want.
Seven percent of our communication effectiveness is about the words we use; thirty eight percent is due to our tone of voice, and fifty five percent is due to our physiology. And most of our communication is outside our conscious awareness. An opportunity therefore exists for us to create more effective nonverbal communication, and that's what establishing rapport is all about.
So what's it take to develop rapport? For people to like and open up to you, you'll need to demonstrate genuine interest in them first. Be interested rather than interesting.
Whenever someone feels that you are interested in knowing and understanding them at a deep level, they will open up and share their true feelings more readily. Therefore we should fully focus with a sincere sense of curiosity about; how they feel, how they think, how they see the world. Their hopes, dreams, and fears, their aspirations and the obstacles they face.
Creating rapport is easy to learn. Influence works at a nonconscious level, so we must first get the other persons nonconscious mind to pay attention. So you should first develop deep rapport prior to putting your point of view. This means you mirror their posture, and match the pitch, pace, and tonality of their voice, and any other behaviour you observe. Cultivate a slow head nod. When you're in rapport with someone and you nod your head, the other person is likely to do the same thing. Every time that person nods their head, it sends an unconscious 'yes' signal to their nervous system.
And we are more likely to follow a suggestion from someone we trust. So when you connect the other person is much more likely to respond to your suggestions. Be sure you match the other person exactly. Yes exactly. Initially start with a slight delay in matching or mirroring; then within a minute or two begin to match the person almost simultaneously. Avoid subtly mirroring; as this won't create a match. Mirror exactly what they do, and do it at the same time as they do.
Anything is possible when you're in deep rapport; so simply pre-suppose you're in rapport and act as if you are. To create rapport, sit upright and relaxed with your legs and feet pointed towards the other person, don't cross your legs, your hands can be flat on your thighs, or loosely held with your fingertips together if you aren't using them to gesture, you should also maintain strong but not intense eye contact. You can; slightly lower your voice tone, touch their arm, raise your eyebrows, move your head to one side, slow down your speaking. With practice, you will be amazed at how quickly and easily you are able to do this.
"Rapport has been described as what happens when we get the attention of someone's nonconscious mind, and meet them at their 'map of the world' its more commonly understood as the sense of ease and connection that develops when you are interacting with someone you trust and feel comfortable with. Being able to get into rapport with other people isn't just a key for successful influence; it's also one of the most enjoyable and relaxing skills you can learn because people like to be around people who are in rapport with them." - Jamie Smart
Presented to you by:
Bharath Balakrishnan
Founder: www.DragonEnglish.com
Blog:http://dragonenglishcommunity.blogspot.com
www.DragonEnglish.com is an online English learning and tutoring portal connecting teachers from across the world with students from Asia and enabling learning through online teaching. We are actively seeking teachers to join our panel. Visit us now
Dynagroup Online (Mob:+61(0)412-546-995)
Skype: dynagrouponline
Email: lew.smallwood@gmail.com
Blog: http://dynagroup-online.blogspot.com
The great therapist Milton Ericson once stated: In the presence of rapport, anything is possible. Rapport is generally defined as the establishment of trust, harmony and cooperation in a relationship. So learning how to create rapport; and develop a deep connection with others will certainly help us to communicate much more effectively. It's said that when people are like each other, they will more readily like each other. When people are not like each other, they will not so readily like each other. When you like someone, you are more willing to assist them, and help them get whatever they want.
Seven percent of our communication effectiveness is about the words we use; thirty eight percent is due to our tone of voice, and fifty five percent is due to our physiology. And most of our communication is outside our conscious awareness. An opportunity therefore exists for us to create more effective nonverbal communication, and that's what establishing rapport is all about.
So what's it take to develop rapport? For people to like and open up to you, you'll need to demonstrate genuine interest in them first. Be interested rather than interesting.
Whenever someone feels that you are interested in knowing and understanding them at a deep level, they will open up and share their true feelings more readily. Therefore we should fully focus with a sincere sense of curiosity about; how they feel, how they think, how they see the world. Their hopes, dreams, and fears, their aspirations and the obstacles they face.
Creating rapport is easy to learn. Influence works at a nonconscious level, so we must first get the other persons nonconscious mind to pay attention. So you should first develop deep rapport prior to putting your point of view. This means you mirror their posture, and match the pitch, pace, and tonality of their voice, and any other behaviour you observe. Cultivate a slow head nod. When you're in rapport with someone and you nod your head, the other person is likely to do the same thing. Every time that person nods their head, it sends an unconscious 'yes' signal to their nervous system.
And we are more likely to follow a suggestion from someone we trust. So when you connect the other person is much more likely to respond to your suggestions. Be sure you match the other person exactly. Yes exactly. Initially start with a slight delay in matching or mirroring; then within a minute or two begin to match the person almost simultaneously. Avoid subtly mirroring; as this won't create a match. Mirror exactly what they do, and do it at the same time as they do.
Anything is possible when you're in deep rapport; so simply pre-suppose you're in rapport and act as if you are. To create rapport, sit upright and relaxed with your legs and feet pointed towards the other person, don't cross your legs, your hands can be flat on your thighs, or loosely held with your fingertips together if you aren't using them to gesture, you should also maintain strong but not intense eye contact. You can; slightly lower your voice tone, touch their arm, raise your eyebrows, move your head to one side, slow down your speaking. With practice, you will be amazed at how quickly and easily you are able to do this.
"Rapport has been described as what happens when we get the attention of someone's nonconscious mind, and meet them at their 'map of the world' its more commonly understood as the sense of ease and connection that develops when you are interacting with someone you trust and feel comfortable with. Being able to get into rapport with other people isn't just a key for successful influence; it's also one of the most enjoyable and relaxing skills you can learn because people like to be around people who are in rapport with them." - Jamie Smart
Presented to you by:
Bharath Balakrishnan
Founder: www.DragonEnglish.com
Blog:http://dragonenglishcommunity.blogspot.com
www.DragonEnglish.com is an online English learning and tutoring portal connecting teachers from across the world with students from Asia and enabling learning through online teaching. We are actively seeking teachers to join our panel. Visit us now
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Is learning english truly global
In today’s world, one word that every global organization chants is “Globalization”. What is globalization? In simple words, globalization is the process by which people, organizations and entities across the world interact in an integrated environment supported by technology.
Doesn’t it sound blissful? It would be great if people across the world could interact seamlessly for jobs, opportunities, programs or problems. This dates back to the times when countries used the barter system to share goods and services.
So if everything is so simple, then why do corporations across the world struggle to work in a globalized economy? The answer is simple. People come from different countries and culture and one primary issue that every person faces is ability to communicate with another effectively.
Communication has been the basis of globalization from the time people, companies or countries started interacting with each other. It is for this reason that companies across the world insist of effective communication. Communication in its true sense holds no barriers.
The need for effective communication is constantly stressed amongst employees of large companies. Today English has been widely accepted as the common language of business communication. With the growth of outsourcing market, the emphasis of cross border training has been significant. The investments made by large corporation on employee training and development have grown manifold. The nature of training provided to enable employees stand competitive in global economies has under gone a radical change.
For example – In the recent past, there has been tremendous emphasis on Personality Development courses such as Good Manners and Etiquette, Body language and postures, Telephone speaking skills etc.
These courses are primarily directed towards people from developing countries like India, Philippines, China and Korea. Is learning English truly global now?
Authored by Bharath Balakrishnan – Founder: www.DragonEnglish.com
www.DragonEnglish.com is an online English tutoring and learning portal connecting hundreds of English teachers from around the world to students of Asia. Our motto is to empower and build global professionals. We wish to achieve this by enabling education through E-learning at least and affordable costs. We promote real time online tutoring through our learning management system and integrated web conferencing system.
The initiative is also aimed at providing a substantial income to teachers, teacher aspirants, graduate and under graduate students or work from home parents from US, UK and other countries by providing them a legitimate work from home opportunity. We are actively seeking teachers to join our panel. Register with us now at www.DragonEnglish.com
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