When your child is struggling in school, it can be very frustrating for both you and your child. This is one reason that many parents have turned to hiring a private tutor. Many times tutors have the experience in assessing where the academic struggle is coming from and has learned the tools to make accommodations for learning concerns. In order to experience those benefits however, you’ll need to find an experienced and highly qualified tutor.

How can you recognize the right tutor?

There are several qualities that you can expect in a tutor and, for your child’s sake, you should work carefully to find a tutor with these qualities.

Friendly, Patient and Good-natured

In many cases, the experiences that your child has been having in school up to this point may have been very unpleasant. Students who are struggling in school have often begun to get into trouble with teachers and peers because causing trouble is preferable to being labeled as ‘dumb’ or other derogatory names. When this has happened, you’ll need a tutor who understands the source of your child’s frustration and anger toward all things involved in learning. It will be very important the tutor is able to continue to treat your child with sincere concern and positive reinforcement, especially when it is hard to do so.

Qualified Experience in Education

This could really be listed as two qualities, but it is necessary that you can find a tutor who has both the qualifications to teach the subject matter and experience teaching. Your neighbor next door may be a real math whiz, but without some successful teaching experience, the neighbor may never be able to help your child understand math concepts and how to apply them. By definition (well, one of them), the tutor is providing help in a subject that wasn’t understood the first time through. So the tutor must have several different ways to address the subject being taught. A really great tutor will have experience in many subjects, but the subject most important to you is the one that your child is struggling with.

Reliable

It will be important that the tutor is consistent; there for all scheduled sessions and on time for the sessions. Progress is made incrementally and without consistency, it will be hard to make any progress. It should go without saying that you and your child will also need to be reliable. Missing tutoring sessions or failing to do the day-to-day work recommended by the tutor will also result in slow progress or none at all.

Safe and Trustworthy

Most, if not all, tutoring agencies will carefully screen their employees before allowing them to work with children. But there is no reason that you shouldn’t also do some screening of your own. Your child’s safety is more important that being polite. So ask about background checks or look into the tutor’s background yourself. And sit in on the tutoring sessions or talk openly with your child about the tutoring session: what was taught and how your child felt. Most of the time, tutors are individuals who are genuinely trying to make education easier for students. You’ll just want to be sure that your tutor falls into that category.

Once you’ve found a tutor…

When you have settled on a tutor and regular sessions have begun, it’s a good idea to provide your child and the tutor with support and dedication. Follow through with suggestions from the tutor and keep communication lines open. A successful tutoring experience will really involve the tutor, your child and you!

Lawrence Reaves writes for www.SchoolTutoring.com, an online tutoring resource to help you find the right resources for your. For more information on a specific subject such as Physics click here

Lawrence Reaves writes for http://www.SchoolTutoring.com, an online tutoring resource to help you find the right resources for your. For more information on a specific subject such as Physics visit http://schooltutoring.com/tutoring-programs/science-tutoring/physics-tutoring/

Author Bio: Lawrence Reaves writes for www.SchoolTutoring.com, an online tutoring resource to help you find the right resources for your. For more information on a specific subject such as Physics click here

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