A private tutoring session can be very beneficial for a student. However, the tutor needs to know how to deal and connect with his/her private students to keep them always motivated and engaged in learning.
First, the tutor should build a strong relationship with the student. A student will learn more from an adult whom he respects. So the teacher shouldn't spend the whole time only teaching academics, they should have side talks about interests and concerns so the student won't be bored and demotivated.
Second, the tutor should be prepared. The teacher should know what he/she will be teaching, what material to give and what the child will need so he/she will be ready to answer all the questions and to go deeply into a topic.
Third, the tutor should personalize the lesson. Students are tutored because they need to understand difficult material. This demands using many learning styles in your teaching such as kinesthetic (learning through movement), auditory (learning through listening and responding), and tactile (learning through touch), in addition to the multiple intelligence to promote understanding.
Very beneficial and important topic.
ReplyDeleteoff-course we can't generalize but most of the tutors we are facing don't have even the minimum of these characteristics, for sorry.