I am a public school teacher. My wife is a public school teacher. My peers are public school teachers. It seems that there is a common frustration among all of us. So many times in our schools, we see teachers struggle to give the attention each student needs in overcrowded classrooms. The child who is falling behind is getting frustrated because he needs someone, anyone, to help him through this one topic but he can’t get the attention he needs in a classroom of thirty-plus students. That one topic of frustration becomes two topics (because the second topic builds off the first) and then two topics becomes three and so until the student is so frustrated, he or she gives up entirely. Then there is the gifted student who finishes their work quickly but sits for a majority of the class waiting for others to catch up. The gifted student falls behind, not on the grade book, but rather towards fulfilling their potential. Then there is the student with the learning disability or the attention disorder; you can imagine how they feel.
So many wonderful teachers out there are doing their best to meet these students needs but it is near impossible nowadays. Classes are held in rooms that were previously closets or in dilapidated trailers and class sizes increase every year. The need for supplemental education to support students has become more important than ever.
Parents usually have a couple places they can turn. They will ask a neighbor who might then refer them to someone down the street they heard was a teacher. Or they will ask the guidance office at the school who will give them a list of twenty tutors or tutoring services. They might ask the teacher as well, but most schools will not allow teachers to tutor students from the same school for compensation and the time the teacher gives after or before school just isn’t enough.
The problem the parent runs into is the fact that, even if they find a tutor, they don’t know anything about the tutor. They don’t have a background on the tutor. They know very little about their qualifications. They don’t if the tutor’s schedule will fit theirs. And then there is that awkward conversation about price (made even more awkward if it is a friend or neighbor).
Those are the barriers to finding good tutors. A tutoring service can help but it’s important to ask these key questions:
- How do I know if the tutors in your service are qualified?
- Do I have any choice in the tutor I can select?
- Will I be able to see profiles or backgrounds and qualifications of ALL your tutors so I can make the choice?
- How do I know which tutors service my area?
- How do I know which tutors fit my schedule?
- How much will this cost? Is the tutoring service upfront with pricing or do they make you call their number and set-up a consultation before you know the price?
- If I am not totally satisfied with the tutor, can I switch quickly?
When my wife and I created our tutoring business, we decided to make sure that these answers were upfront on our website. We carefully selected and pre-screened our tutors, including extensive interviews, criminal background checks, and reference checks. We posted their qualifications, philosophies, teaching styles, and schedule availability on the site. We posted pricing information clearly for the parent. We posted our philosophy. We made it so parents could schedule tutors right on the website immediately. It was our goal to make finding an effective tutor affordable and convenient. These are the gaps we found when we saw parents searching in vain for tutors. These are the things you should be looking for when you choose a tutoring service.
Remember, your time is valuable and having the power to choose the educator who will be spending so much time with your child is something you should not take lightly.
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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
great fun mate.
practice more than ever is your key
Be very careful of the learning method you use. Linguists, and people with vast experience in learning languages will almost always agree on the fact that most language learning methods out there are 50-70 percent fluff! It's pretty easy to get away with telling you that you'll be able to speak a language when for example, someone says "hello", they're speaking English, and it doesn't mean they can actually communicate. Being semi-fluent means you have a functional comprehension of at least 65% in the conventional range of that language, while fluent would be anything greater than 80%. If you don't have the time to learn a language properly, and you're after something quick and easy, then you're probably headed towards disappointment. The best method to getting as far as you can get in the shortest period of time is called the “3 step”. The first step is to complete a FULL Pimsleur (MUST BE PIMSLEUR) course. Listen to each lesson at least 2 times, taking notes the first time with new vocabulary and studying before listening the second time. The 2nd step is to form a list of the 3,000 most common/frequently used words/vocabulary in English, to also include the most common/frequently used eight parts of speech in English (verbs, nouns, pronouns, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections), which you can search the web for. Once you've formed the list, you need to find accurate generic-translations, which you can apply to most common case scenarios of that language(definatley the most challenging part of all this). Once that's done, make flash cards or whichever method works best for you in memorizing vocabulary, but try to include each word in a sentence, on top of just the new word and it's meaning (basically, know how to use it as correctly as possible). Repetition is the key here, so this would also be a good time to solidify your pronunciation. Try to make your sentence forming excersises as similar as you can to how you did it with Pimsleur, and you'll actualy notice yourself incramentaly advancing every 500 words. After you've memorized all that, the 3rd step is to locate 4 movies that are preferably some kind of Disney movie, or anything of a slower pace. Childrens movies seem to work best for this. Watch ONLY these same 4 movies in the language you're trying to learn, with good, quality English subtitles, continuously, to the point where you know what's going to be said next. Try to plan completing each step in this order, exactly as described within a time-frame of about 10-12 months. When you're done, you should be somewhere in the range of “semi-fluency”, at the point where learning after the “3 step” is quick and easy, and being close to fluent after 2 years of using it everyday, and learning at least an additional 100 new vocabulary words a month during that time. The downside to the 3-step method, is that when you're finished, you still may not be grammatically up to par, but will know more than enough to get there easily, which is what makes this the best and most efficient “fast” method, but not necessarily a good substitute for formal education. Either way, it can't hurt to try! Good luck!
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do you have too much money ? =P
you are a god xD
For one-on-one tutoring, hourly pay usually consists of $15.00-$20.00. A teacher at my school informed us that you should ask for at least $10.00 per hour. In fact, most of the tutors [who request this much] are in high school and still attend classes, such as PreCalculus and even Spanish 4 (one year in middle school + three years in high school). Once again, I think $15.00-$20.00 would be reasonable. With classes from middle school, high school, and college in your pocket, you definitely have more experience than a HS student with a "high pay rate" of $10.00.
Hope this helps out
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“You know what I really don’t care!!”
FUNNY!!
yeah, cuz i’ll gladly take some off your hands, haha
fuck it it`s fun anyway lol
$15.00 to $20.00 per hour
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The benefits of tutoring are that, by hour, you're paid FAR better than a teacher. The downsides are the shaky market.
Get in touch with local colleges and schools. With any luck, they'll be able to recommend you, and those will probably become your main source of clients.
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Generally from 5 to 20 Euro per hour; of course the higher is for more experienced babysitter/tutor or if some specific skill is required.
You can look at this site http://www.mobisitter.com/en/home.htm
which also report some example for Rome: http://www.mobisitter.com/comodo/viewFindSkill.html?method=Cerca&city=&province=rm&skill=baby_sitter&cache=true&locale=en
Call your local community college and see what they charge. You can also find this in the ads of a local newspaper (most of the time). It's really hard to tell you on a forum like this because I do not know what other people in the area are charging. I would suggest maybe $10 an hour, but you do not want ot make your prices WAY over OR under what others in your area are charging.
You should save yourself the money, and go to your local high school or college and get an honors student to volunteer to tutor. You know the person knows their english based on their grades and how they speak. There are plenty of people willing to teach without having to pay.