Tutoring For Kids

Tutoring For Kids

Tutoring, whether it is traditional or online, is slowly experiencing an increase in demand. A lot of parents are already hiring tutors for their kids, it is all because of continuing increase in academic demands. There are more students inside a classroom and teachers are finding it difficult to help all of the students.

Busy and working parents, find it more convenient to enrol their children in post-school tutoring whether it is traditional and face-to-face or in the more flexible online tutoring. Other parents would prefer to tutor their own kids.

Whether you have professional tutors or doing some tutoring of your own, they all seem to agree that teaching kids can be challenging sometimes. What are some tutoring tips that you can use to make tutoring your own kids or other people’s children easier?

• Build rapport and communication.

Children are already inside classrooms and listening to teachers most of their day, the least that they would need is somebody who would meet them after class and sound like their classroom teacher. The clear difference is, tutoring is not classroom instruction. Tutoring is a positive reinforcement of what children learned inside the school.

Aside from teaching and discussing lectures, you would also need to give an ear to the children. How would you know where exactly they are having problems, if you do not even bother listen to them? It would be great if children would be able to ask you questions, make mistakes and correct them in a relaxed manner. Children find it easier to open up once they realized that their tutor is actually somebody they could talk to and not somebody who would intimidate them.

If you are tutoring your own kids, then make sure that they are involved in the process. There are times when simple and decent talk with our children is very tiring and difficult, what more on making them sit for few hours to get some additional instruction? If you are a parent tutoring her own kids, then try using words that would give positive disposition and encouragement.

If you are tutoring for somebody else’s kids, make sure that you have a healthy and steady communication with the child’s parents. Tutors would find handling parents to be more difficult than handling the kids. To make sure that you are communicating with the parents, you can start in the beginning.

Some tutors would update parents about the sessions daily or every two days. This would help the parents understand the children’s academic strengths and weaknesses and get their expectations straight.

• Structure and time management

Make a structure or a plan for the children. You can give the children exercises or homework which do not demand too much time. You can give them easy writing exercises or practice exercises. Remember that they also have school homework to do but you do not want them to disregard tutoring sessions easily, too.

Since, you are dealing with children, it is absolutely necessary to give them time to breathe for awhile. Children have short attention span, you could not contain them for such a long time. You can try giving them fun exercises and homework to do. Just do not make it too frequent, you want to avoid being somebody who spends most of the time playing than tutoring.