By Kenneth

I do not mean work like tutoring or chatting of course. I meant in depth tutoring. What tutoring styles can there be?

Tutor your childs school homework Some parents want a 'study partner' for their child. The tutor will then ask your child if there are any homework that he has done, and the tutor will go through the schools homework with your child. If you are so busy that you do not have time for your child, maybe you would like to ask your tutor to do this. Doing this, however, would mean that your tutor isnt doing any extra work. Your child would also not be doing extra questions that will allow him to improve more.

Teaching your child according to a plan These tutors have a plan to follow. They have decided to teach Addition in lesson one, followed by subtraction in lesson two. They will bring their own questions and your child will do them. The whole course has nothing to do with school work. It is an extra practice time for your child.

Practice with the child on a ten-year-series book The ten-year-series, also fondly remembered as the TYS to most students, is a collection of past year examination papers in the O or A levels. Tutors who normally work on assessment books will come to your house and give some questions to your child to do, before giving them correction.

What kind of tutor does your child need? Perhaps you might want to know what teaching method is your tutor going to adopt. You have to decide if your tutor is helping with existing homework, or just providing extra work for your child or both. You have to decide if you want your tutor to teach your child before giving his/her questions, whether its from the ten year series or not. All these depends on your childs learning ability. If he or she is already struggling with school work, it is pointless to burden him with extra work. Maybe you would like your tutor to go through an hour of school work followed by an hour of extra revision that is not related to school homework at all.

It all depends on you as a parent, and you have to decide. Remember, be in the loop, not out of it.

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