Virtual tutoring and learning support services during Corona
Homeschooling during the pandemic poses a great challenge for many families at the moment. Both children and parents often wish for assistance and a contact person to ask questions or review learning material.
The following offers are mostly in German, especially links to learning materials.
However, with many providers of online homework support and tutoring, there is often the possibility that English can be integrated. If you would like to use these services in English, please contact the providers yourself.
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Homework supervision and tutoring
The BfC has compiled various offers for tutoring and learning support and will be happy to advise you individually on your personal situation.
What | Description | Price | Recommended Age |
|---|---|---|---|
A nice addition to classic tutoring can be online homework supervision. If desired, this can take place daily in a group of 5 children. | 14,50€/ 60 min | 4 years and older | |
With this provider, students support your child in every grade, on a voluntary basis. Registration is quick and uncomplicated. Here, the subjects and the class are selected. Then a suitable tutor is found and forwarded to you as an email contact. Finally, you make an appointment and specify the planned tutoring content. You also discuss the app to be used with the tutor. | Free | Schoolchildren | |
This provider offers you a similar way of registration as the one mentioned above. Upon consultation, a free trial lesson is offered. | 17,99€/ 45 min. | Schoolchildren | |
The initiative emerged from the #wirvsvirus Hackathon of the German government and aims to leave no schoolchild behind. Schoolchildren can send their questions to/contact a nationwide network of certified tutors and receive low-threshold and qualified support. | Free | Schoolchildren |
In general, our family service is available for individual advice and will help you find the right offer for your family.
Curriculum / Core Curricula
Here you can get an overview of the educational standards & content areas for the individual school years and subjects in the respective federal state. To the eduserver
Supplementary learning materials
Learning materials are ideal for homework and preparation for exams. Many publishers offer workbooks or interactive exercises for the educational media used by the respective school. These can be ordered online. Below are some helpful links.
What | Description | Recommended Age |
|---|---|---|
Free practice sheets and class tests for many subjects to download. Solutions are included. | Schoolchildren | |
Free grammar & online exercises for English. | Not subdivided according to age or grades, but topics | |
Free explanations for maths, German & English lessons. | Grade 5-10 | |
Free interactive exercises, sorted by school type, grade & subject. | Schoolchildren | |
Free online learning and exercise; main focus on German and English. | German: subdivided by subject, English: grade 5-10 |
Learning videos
Educational videos can be a great help if children do not properly understand certain facts and to pique their interest in them.
What | Description | Recommended Age |
|---|---|---|
As a result of the project "Learning at Home", there is a range of educational content on almost all subjects in the ARD Mediathek. This includes not only learning videos, but also episodes of educational shows. | All ages | |
Alpha Lernen is the learning portal of Bayerischer Rundfunk and offers free explanations and learning videos. | Schoolchildren | |
Studyfix advertises that complex learning content is explained so simple in learning videos that children can understand it in five minutes. | Division according to subjects. Rather for older children from the age of 12 years and older. |