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Tips for tutoring?
This is going to be my first time tutoring and i need some tips! What should my starting price be? The kids are 5th grade and 8th grade. I'm going to be tutoring both at the same time. Anything I need to know? Thanks!
I'm a senior in high school. I think I'm tutoring them in math. The older one is learning algebra.
12 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Yea. For one thing, don't tutor that big of an age spread at the same time unless you are just babysitting. It's one at a time if you really want to be effective.
I tutor high school students. 8th graders are at the very edge of being able to understand the usefulness of tutoring. 5th graders- they will be cooperative but less focused. I charge $65, but I've been doing it for 20 years.
Remember that each session you have will be evaluated by parents AND kids- so it's a tight rope. You want the kids to be entertained enough to recommend you to their friends, but you want the parents to be impressed that work is being done, so they can recommend you to other parents. Remember- the main client is the mom. The dad could give a crap, and no kid asks for tutoring.
- 1 decade ago
I would say 10 an hour. Also, patience is key. There is a reason these kids need to be tutored. How old are you? If you aren't too much older, you may get lucky and they will see you as a cool older kid. I tutored before and I found it helpful if you could relate to the kids. Depending on what you are tutoring, like math or science, sometimes all that is needed is to just present the information in a new or different way.
Source(s): I have tutored before, and been tutored - Dogna MLv 41 decade ago
Hi, my price was 10 dollars an hour. As for tutoring tips:
If they don't get it, dont get flustered, just stay calm. (Many of my tutors did that and I burst into tears)
Each kid learns differently. Some kids are hands on learners, others visual. Find out what works with them and go on from there.
Make sure they don't just goof off, keep them in line.
Good luck.
Source(s): Tutor and has had tutors in the past. - taireninaugh18Lv 51 decade ago
Starting price should be between $8-11 an hour per kid.
I tutor from Kin-high school
1) Be very patient
2) Find out what subject your tutee needs most help in and design activites for that subject (math=fun match game)
3)Give them a lot of encouragement :)
Good Luck
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Money around $20 per kid. If they're from the same family, do $30 per hour.
What subject are you teaching them?!?!
This would help me in helping you a whole lot.
Be friendly and nice but strict. Don't let these kids wonder around or get distracted by stuff. Be firm but nice, though. Be patient and don't give them answers to anything. Give them clues that will help them get the answers. Review any homework/classwork/test/quizzes the kids got from school that day to see if they don't get anything. Let them have a snack break for 15min if it's going to continue for an hour or more. At the end ask them if they don't get anything. Make it clear to them that you're there to help them, not judge them so that they shouldn't feel embarrassed to ask you a question and that communication always works.
- 1 decade ago
* Be confident in your ability to tutor others. If you are good at a particular subject and like to help others, you will do fine.
* Don't be surprised if people want you to tutor in their own homes. Some people aren't comfortable sending their children to a stranger. It is actually a good idea to tutor in the student's home. The student will be more comfortable and open to instruction.
- 5 years ago
First discover out if she has the idea of quantity permanence. Start with 3 matters for your hand and exhibit them, then cover one and exhibit her the others, ask her "How many are hidden?" Simple with 3... now not so useful for a few children as you systematically develop the quantity of gadgets making use of the entire feasible combos, zero+10, nine+a million, eight+two, 7+three, 6+four. five+five If that is cast get your fingers on a few base ten manipulatives and feature her construct numbers with (ones) cubes, and (tens) bars, and (Hundreds) one hundred block. Add numbers in combination that do not ought to be regrouped and that do ought to be regrouped. If you cannot get the truly factor, use popcycle sticks and in combination construct tens rods by way of gluing on beans to the sticks. Tape ten sticks in combination to make a one hundred platform block. Grid paper, draw rectangles and rely perimeter, field. Play cube video games, (Yahtzee) card video games (Cribbage, fish for ten like cross fish however the pairs are the playing cards that upload as much as ten, you have got to take the K,Q, J &10s out) and board video games (Backgammon, chess, mancala, checkers, othello) Go to the internet at AAA math or counton and discover video games there.
- 1 decade ago
well i used to tutor. make sure u try and make the terms easy and fun to understnad. even that means creating something. make it more than writing and reading. have them explain what they know to u and work on from there. puts the concepts in simple terms, almost elementary.
=]good luck,
- Anonymous1 decade ago
$10-$15 an hour. Make sure that they bring what they need to work on the most.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
TIPS
1. Bring a paddle.
2. Bring some Tylenol.
DO THAT AND YOU'LL BE GOLDEN!