Most students require some help along the way in their academic careers. This is where tutors can accommodate. I’ve identified four reasons why tutoring can help your boy or girl succeed in school when his or her teacher can’t.
1. A tutor can be taken on when the requirement occurs. At any given time in a pupil’s academic career, he or she may require just a bit of specifically targeted help, and at another time, he or she may be in need of lots of it. Tutoring is like targeting a specific problem. Rather than having the pupil go through a whole course of learning, tutoring narrows the learning to where the pupil requires it most.
With tutoring, there is no waste, no repetition, and no bland lecture or lesson on something that the pupil by now knows and is familiar with. Tutoring meets the problem directly and addresses the concern of the pupil directly.
2. In a classroom setting, no one student gets all the attention; however, in a tutoring situation the student gets all the attention and shares it with no one. This has a few assumptions. First and most obvious, more time is being devoted with the pupil. Extra time means more learning. Additionally, the pupil has a higher appreciation for the lesson because the lesson is specifically for his or her benefit and not the benefit of an entire classroom of students. It also places some tension on the pupil to focus more. When the tutor is tutoring to only one pupil, that student feels obliged to focus and do well. In a classroom, however, a pupil can daydream or maybe even mess around behind the teacher’s back.
3. The pupil can ask a question and get prompt responses. In a classroom of pupils, a student may have to wait his or her turn before being answered. Many pupils may feel daunted in a classroom setting, and as result, he or she may not ask an all important question. On the other hand, the student can feel secure when being tutored one on one to ask any number of questions without feeling any peer pressure from fellow classmates.
4. The tutor , may be more qualified than the classroom teacher relative to the specific subject being instructed. You may believe that this would not have an impact with very young pupils as early as grade one or two, but classroom teachers are experienced at teaching larger quantities of students, whereas, a qualified tutor is experienced at tutoring one on one. The two methods of instruction are somewhat unique and require different techniques to get the lesson across. That’s why classroom teachers teach well in classroom settings and tutors in one on one situations.