How to Successfully Choose Your Personal Tutors
Choosing a personal tutor for your children is something that you
need to make sure you get right. The process can be made much more
straightforward by simply asking some basic questions. The answers you
receive can go a long way to ensuring that your child receives good
personal tuition.
The decision to use a tutor to help your children
can be motivated by several factors. Perhaps the child is slipping
behind in school or needs help to overcome problems that may hamper
future exam performance. When you have taken the decision to hire a
tutor, though, it is important that you get it right.
Thankfully, there are many reputable service
providers out there offering a great range of tutors with different
skills. Filtering through the information given by these providers can
often take a lot of time. However, by asking a series of targeted
questions, it is possible to find the best tutor available for your
child.
Safety and Awareness
-By
far the most important thing to check about personal tutors is that
they have been properly vetted when it comes to security. In the United
Kingdom, every tutor must have undergone what used to be called a CRB
check and has now been renamed as a DBS check.
-Whilst this is no absolute guarantee that the tutor
will be safe, this check will show that they have committed no relevant
offences in the past. A tutoring company will also carry out their own
checks, but if a tutor is operating on their own, they must have proof
of a clear DBS check.
Expertise and Qualifications
As
well as security, it is crucial that a tutor has the relevant skills
and expertise which is required to carry out their job effectively.
There is little point in using a tutor who does not know enough about
the subject being taught.
-Most agencies require tutors to have at least a degree and many may insist on a teaching qualification too.
-Whilst
qualifications are no guarantee of skills, they do give a good
indication of the kind of level of expertise someone actually possesses.
Experience and Insight
Having
a degree and wide subject knowledge does not automatically mean that
someone is a good teacher, however. It is always a good idea to ask if
the tutor has had any direct teaching experience and where that
experience was. This gives an insight into how theory has been put into
practice.
-A teacher who has enjoyed success in economically
deprived areas is often very skilled indeed, so do not be put off if a
tutor has only worked in inner city schools rather than posh private
institutions, where the challenges faced by teachers are often very
different.
By asking these few basic questions, you can save
yourself much hassle and stress. Personal tutors can make a huge
difference to how your child progresses, so it is crucial that you make
the right decision on their behalf.
AUTHOR BIO
Stan
Liversedge is a former classroom teacher and current tutor who lives in
Halifax, West Yorkshire. He also now writes, sharing his expertise about
teaching and personal tutors with a wide range of educational blogs and
websites, offering insight about a range of stakeholders in the
profession, including Fleet Tutors.
2 komentar:
Hiring a tutor can help a lot, but can be more harmful.It is help only when needed to compensate some shortcomings in knowledge, but ,sometame, the students less follow teaching in school by relying on private teachers, do not investigate and come to conclusions by themselves , as the personal teacher works for them. It is harmful.
Hiring a tutor can help a lot, but can be more harmful.It is help only when needed to compensate some shortcomings in knowledge, but ,sometame, the students less follow teaching in school by relying on private teachers, do not investigate and come to conclusions by themselves , as the personal teacher works for them. It is harmful.
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