How to Choose a Tutor For Your Child

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How to Choose a Tutor For Your Child
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After recommendations from two teachers, I made
the decision to acquire a summer tutor for my
daughter, Larkin. She had passed kindergarten,
but both her kindergarten teacher and her small
group tutor were concerned about the possibility
of her falling behind her peers during the
summer. I knew my daughter would love the one
on one attention of a tutor, but I also knew she
would not love summer homework. I carefully
considered the following four guidelines when I
chose the tutor she would work with.
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• 1. Subject Area
• The first consideration is finding a tutor with
  expertise in the subject area your child needs
  help with. Grade school teachers handle all
  subjects, but most had an area of concentration
  in college. Matching this area of expertise with
  the needs of your child could yield better
  results from the tutoring.
• 2. Age Appropriate
• Choose a tutor with experience working with
  children in the age range of your child. A high
  school English tutor may have trouble helping a
  first grader develop reading skills, in spite of
  subject area expertise.

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• 3. Personality Fit
• As a parent, you know what type of teacher brings
  out the best in your child. You may not have a
  choice of teachers for the classroom, but when
  choosing a tutor, you can seek out someone whose
  teaching style complements your child's learning
  style.
• Tutoring is extra schoolwork over and above the
  normal workload. Adding a personality conflict to
  the extra workload may prove counterproductive.
• 4. Flexible with Scheduling
• Your tutor of choice should be willing to work
  with your family schedule. In addition, he or she
  should respect your wishes regarding the amount
  of time spent tutoring. A the expert, the tutor
  can offer a guideline to determine how much extra
  help your child needs, but only you know at what
  point the tutoring will just be overkill.

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• Characteristics of Successful Literacy Tutoring",
  written by Dorothy Leal and published on
  Findarticles.com, notes that one on one tutoring
  can be very effective for improving performance
  for students that are struggling. Wanting to
  increase my daughter's chance of scholastic
  success led me to seek out a tutor for her, but I
  knew I had to make a good decision, if I wanted
  the sessions to be helpful.
• If a teacher or other school personnel has
  suggested tutoring for your student, careful
  consideration of the four guidelines above can
  boost the success of tutoring for your child.
• Source https//www.sooperarticles.com/education-a
  rticles/tutoring-articles/how-choose-tutor-your-ch
  ild-1598264.html

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