In honor of the upcoming Earth Day, I'm going to be highlighting some green ideas that will make your tutoring more eco-friendly. So, without further ado, here are 3 simple ways to be a little kinder to the environment during your tutoring sessions!
1) Go paperless when you can
If you have learning tools or other handouts on your computer, send them via email to your tutee. If you are tutoring your tutee in history, a timeline may be helpful, but it doesn't need to be printed out to be useful. The same can be said of English grammar rules - many times the printed handout would be no more useful than having it on screen during essay writing.
Even if your tutee prints out what you send, think of it this way: at least you are not both printing out the same document - half as much paper will be generated.
2) Be energy conscious.
When possible, choose to tutor in an area with natural lighting - it's also easier on the eyes. Try to travel by the most environmentally friendly method possible, to and from your tutoring sessions. Even better would be to meet at a place where both of you are already going to be nearby, so you're combining trips.
3) Be mindful of your office supply choices.
Use refillable mechanical pencils, reliable (and refillable) pens that last, recycled paper, and other recycled office supply choices.
Don't be surprised if your tutee begins to mimic your good choices. Recently I had a tutee show off what she bought with the money her parents rewarded her with when she aced her final - a fancy schmancy mechanical pencil like mine!
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