| Many tutors provide homework help for students. | | | | it's important to start developing an appropriate |
| Sessions can also include helping students prepare for | | | | curriculum during freshman year. Determining |
| quizzes and tests. However, too often students who | | | | extracurricular and community service activities is also |
| work with tutors still struggle in their classes. | | | | extremely important to begin in a student's freshman |
| Sometimes their grades do not improve, disappointing | | | | year. Students are at a huge disadvantage if they |
| both the student and the parent who has paid lots of | | | | wait until right before senior year to begin this. |
| money with hopes that it will make a difference. | | | | |
| Often, the tutor may just help alleviate the | | | | Establishment of Regular Progress Reporting |
| symptoms of the student's struggle in class, never | | | | |
| really fixing the underlying problems that the student | | | | We've heard from parents how sometimes it is hard |
| is having in the subject area. While some of these | | | | to keep track of what is happening in their child's |
| underlying problems can just be directly related to | | | | class. For this reason, it is a good idea to work with a |
| fundamental areas that the student is lacking an | | | | tutor who is willing to connect with the student's |
| understanding in within the subject, too often there | | | | teacher and ask for regular progress reports that |
| are other difficulties that the student is having in | | | | include notes on the student's class attendance as |
| school in general. | | | | well as areas of concern and those that are |
| | | | | improving. Hopefully, the student's teacher is willing to |
| Time Management and Study Skills Improvement | | | | provide progress reports. Most teachers are willing to |
| | | | | help the parent and student who are dedicated to |
| Sometimes the student needs help with his or her | | | | the student learning and succeeding in their class by |
| time management and study skills. A tutor who | | | | providing short but regular progress reports. This also |
| provides "academic management" can help the | | | | prevents the parent from being surprised by report |
| student learn and develop good time management | | | | cards! |
| and study skills. The tutor can help the student learn | | | | |
| how to develop a plan for completing projects and | | | | Prepping for Classes during Summer Breaks |
| research papers so that they're not left until the last | | | | |
| minute. Leaving projects and papers until the last | | | | Another way a good tutor can provide teaching |
| minute, especially a couple days or even the night | | | | assistance and academic management for a student |
| before they're due, only causes panic in everyone: | | | | is to help the student prep for a potentially difficult |
| the student and everyone around them, including | | | | class in the fall during the summer break. This helps |
| parents. A good tutor should not just care about the | | | | the student get a head start in the class, say in AP |
| student's work during the hour or two hour session in | | | | Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, Geometry, Algebra I, |
| which they are tutoring the student, but also days | | | | Algebra II, or Precalculus or Trigonometry. Students |
| before and after the session. Tutors should help the | | | | who prep for these classes during the summer, either |
| student develop effective note-taking skills in | | | | 1-on-1 or in group sessions, notice the huge |
| notebooks dedicated for each subject or through | | | | difference it makes when they are actually in the |
| permitted tape recorders. Too often, students take | | | | class during the school year and seeing the material |
| too few notes in class or none at all. When tutors | | | | for a second time. This helps them to master the |
| notice this happening, they should bring it to the | | | | subject material more easily, which of course not |
| parent's attention and help to correct the problem. | | | | only helps them excel in their current class but more |
| | | | | advanced classes in the future that require mastery |
| Curriculum Development | | | | of key topics from previous classes. Although |
| | | | | summer is definitely a time for vacations and a |
| Sometimes the problem is that the student is not | | | | chance for students to unwind, parents should really |
| taking the right classes that promote his or her | | | | think about giving the student a head start on |
| strengths and other classes that help strengthen his | | | | difficult classes to prevent frustration during the |
| or her weaknesses. Tutors who provide quality | | | | school year. |
| academic management can help students and parents | | | | |
| to develop a stimulating, challenging, and appropriate | | | | A Tutor Should Be More than a Tutor |
| curriculum that they can enjoy and in which they can | | | | |
| excel. This is also extremely important for students | | | | We see ourselves as more than tutors at The |
| and parents who are planning for the college | | | | Teaching Tutors. We see ourselves as Teaching |
| admissions process during the high school years since | | | | Assistants and Academic Managers for each of our |
| it is important to know which classes are required for | | | | students. Our students receive personal attention as |
| the universities and colleges in which the student is | | | | we work to provide overall assistance to parents for |
| targeting. Some students do not begin taking this | | | | managing and maximizing their child's academic career. |
| process seriously until their junior or senior year, but | | | | |