A tutor is someone who helps individuals or small groups with instruction. A tutor helps a student improve their personal learning strategies so they can become better learners and be empowered in the classroom.
The purpose of a tutor is to help students progress to the point where they can be independent learners and eventually have no need for a tutor. A tutor should work so that they are no longer needed.
A successful tutor should have certain qualities. Some of these qualities are content knowledge, empathy, a positive attitude and an engaging sense of humor.
An effective tutor should have sufficient content knowledge and empathy for the student. Empathy is the ability to feel what someone else is feeling. One of these qualities is sufficient content knowledge. This is important if the tutor is to be effective. A tutor with empathy can read the attitude, emotional state, and perceptions of a student. An effective tutor should be able to discern if the student is frustrated with a class, having a bad day, or even how they feel about being tutored.
Tutors need to develop a mutually supportive relationship with students. Tutors need to be honest and open. Students may not be very enthusiastic about getting help with their academic issues. However, if a student believes a tutor is genuine and wants to listen, that student will begin to open up about their academic problems. Having a good sense of humor and an engaging personality can also make the student comfortable enough to open up to the tutor.
An effective tutor should have a passion for helping people and be caring. A caring tutor is punctual for the tutoring session and develops specific teaching strategies to help their students. Tutors share themselves with students and develop relationships that will be beneficial for both.
There are many benefits of being a tutor. A tutor can gain a better understanding of the content they are tutoring in, gain work experience, improve time management skills and make some extra money.
Students also benefit from tutoring. A student receives more individualized help and their academic performance improves. Tutoring also offers intensive practice and can generate a better attitude toward content and academics.
There are ethical considerations when it comes to tutoring. Confidentiality is important. Whatever happens is a tutoring session is confidential. If personal or academic problems come up they should be brought to the attention of the tutoring supervisor.
Remember not to disclose any personal information and to limit comments about instructors. It is unethical to disclose phone numbers and home addresses. A tutor cannot accept or ask for this information.
It does not help the student being tutored to be allowed to criticize a teacher or professor and complain about the course. It the student has little or no confidence in the teacher or class, they will not be able to learn what they need to learn.
A tutor should not dress in a way that distracts from learning. A tutor should not wear revealing clothes or clothing that promotes such things as drugs or violence.
Effective tutoring is accomplished when their services are no longer needed.
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Help answer the question about one on one tutoring
Can one make a living just doing tutoring as opposed to teaching in a school?It seems that tutoring is not stable enough.
Is there a way to stablize the clientelle, and what can i do about the rash of cancellations?
I want to teach language to adults where there is high demand, and I work in a metropolis of 2 million people.
I would not be limited to evenings, but also teach during the day.
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haha xD,mint..
i’d say: respect +5
but i have to say your crazy xD, i coudn’t handle with 4 mixer nevermind 9 o.O, and your right f**k it how it sounds, its all about fun
fuck it it`s fun anyway lol
great fun mate.
yeah, cuz i’ll gladly take some off your hands, haha
I take spanish, but the class is really, really slow. I suggest getting tapes at a library to learn some basic things, listen to all of Shakira's spanish songs, go to spanish websites and translate them with Google Translator, etc.
Yes with these conditions.
1. You are fluent in English
2. You've studied a second language
If you meet these conditions, you can speak, understand and write French fluently within 1 year.
When you don't understand a word, you can ask for its definition.
How to do it? Two ways, my way or highway.
My way: Find a friend or someone who's willing to speak French with you everyday for one year. I assure you that you'll speak fluently in French. Proof: I speak with my wife in Spanish all the times for about 8 months.
Highway: You do it yourself. lol
“You know what I really don’t care!!”
FUNNY!!
First of all i wanna say that the first answer is complete crap, spanish are not gringos so gringos didn't invent the language.
I think the best way to learn a language is living in the country that speaks that language, i lived at usa to learn english, that worked, but watching tv is a good idea, also try listening to music and look at the lyrics. i speak spanish so may be u want to add my e mail address, giselle_87_oo@hotmail.com i can teach u some stuff
Let me tell you that there is NO easy way to learn Finnish. It's an absolute beast of a language for native English-speakers go learn, being, as it is, quite unrelated to other Western European languages.
regalame uno XD
As an adult who suffered with dyslexia through childhood, I was taught with the Slingerland Reading and writing program. It helped me de-code the way words appeared to me. It has been proven to help kids (and adults) with Dyslexia. I wouldn't be able to read today without this program. Good Luck!
Not second…not third…I'd have to say…sixth? I've lost count. I'm doing Italian now.
The internet affords us a gazillion opportunities to teach ourselves all kinds of things…try a site that has natives to help you learn…like Livemocha, Babbel. Or find a keypal through this site, Sharedtalk or any of a number of other sites like these.
Milan & Rome are fun cities but smaller ones like Padua, Bologna or Perugia (big university towns) may be more for you. You'll also find more people needing your English lessons!
Note that many Italian cities & towns offer free Italian lessons to foreigners. These lesson are offered by the municipalities themselvs.
Note that many Italian cities have English language available on their home pages: http://iat.comune.bologna.it/IAT/IAT.nsf
Currently, I'm learning Finnish on my own as well. I've started maybe five months ago and I'm doing quite well I think considering my (lack of) persistence and time. Grammar-wise, Finnish isn't a good language to learn for the first time since there's A LOT of grammar you have to learn but don't give up on the language just yet because the advantage of Finnish is that all the letters only have one sound to them whereas some other languages have different sounds to one letter (ex: English).
You can start by knowing how the language sounds, getting a feel for it. Know the sounds of the letters and the stress of the words. Learning on your own is tough since you don't have a teacher you can refer to unless you can find someone online who is willing to help you through audio/video. When I started, I didn't really want to learn the language at all. I just wanted to understand a Finnish rock/metal band that had captured my interest and the rest was history. If you like, you can try to listen to some Finnish music to get the feel of the words and letters (but don't depend on music to teach you how to speak properly). I recommend Kotiteollisuus.
The thing you need is time and persistence. You'll need to get the information, know it, and use it. Using it is the most important thing because if you don't use it, well, you lose it.
There are a lot of websites on learning Finnish but unfortunately, my giant list of sites have disappeared because of a virus attack on this computer but maybe this will help you get started:
http://forum.finlandforthought.net/
If you want, you can email me (stephanie_519 [at] yahoo [dot] ca) and maybe we can help each other out.
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do you have too much money ? =P
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hi ha- shut up. HAHAHA
you are a god xD
trymango.com its like rosetta stone ony its free, its really good and will teach you that basics fast, and since you speak spanish even faster.