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The Need for Tutoring

 

Why Hire a Tutor?

 

To be most effective, the teaching process requires interaction between the teacher and the student.  There must be a constant give and take.  The teacher provides information and demonstrates procedures, but then the student must demonstrate how well he or she has understood and can use this information.  In the classroom setting, homework and tests are the main vehicle for demonstrating learning.  For some this is enough, but other students need more attention then even the best teacher can give.

 

A tutor can provide the extra attention needed to learn and master a subject.  Sometimes, it is just a matter of helping a student get through a difficult subject or catch up to the level of his or her classmates.  Other students, however, need to learn how to learn.  Learning requires a variety of skills and if any of these are lacking, the learning process may stall out.  A tutor can give extra help with a difficult topic, but he or she can also observe a student's learning process and teach valuable skills that will allow the student to keep pace without extra help.

 

A-Squared Tutoring is committed to addressing both needs.  Students who are having trouble with one particular subject can receive focused attention on this subject, whether it is algebra, calculus, geometry, physics, chemistry, or earth science. For students with more global learning challenges, A-Squared Tutoring can administer a diagnostic test that, along with interaction with the parents and student, can identify particular learning skills that need to be strengthened, along with subject matter that has not been mastered yet.  Weekly tutoring sessions allow the tutor to encourage good study habits such as note-taking, homework completion, and asking the teacher for help.  Parents receive a monthly progress report that demonstrates how their child is improving and what still needs work.

 

 Students who may benefit from tutoring are not just those who are failing in a subject.  Even students achieving high grades may desire to learn more than the classroom can teach them.  Teachers often must focus attention on the students who are struggling and cannot properly challenge the brightest students who wish to learn more.  A-Squared Tutoring provides for a variety of needs. 

 

Types of Tutoring

 

 Which is right for you or your child?

 

A quick look at the Internet provides a variety of tutoring services.  How do you choose which is best for you or your child?

 

A-Squared Tutoring provides students with an experienced teacher and tutor with an excellent academic background, a committed full-time professional.  Students get one-on-one attention for the same price or less than a tutoring center where tutors divide time between several students.  Students needing help in difficult courses such as physics and calculus can receive help from someone who has taught these courses at high schools and colleges.  Students who need help with study habits receive diagnostic testing, coaching on nine different learning strategies, and parents receive monthly progress reports.  Our rates are competitive, especially when you consider the quality and experience you can expect. 

 

Tutoring center franchises are among the fastest growing businesses in America.  As a franchise, all tutoring centers will offer the same standardized program of study.  Most will provide diagnostic tests and customized practice work.  Students have to go to the center for tutoring and often share a tutor with one or more other students.  Generally the only qualification a tutor must have to be hired is a bachelor's degree.  The tutor is paid a relatively low wage and usually works only part-time.  Start-up and facility costs make overhead high so rates charged to clients are also high.  When students share a tutor, it means that for every hour of service purchased, the student may only get fifteen or twenty minutes of attention and will spend the rest of the time working on his or her own. 

 

Part-time freelance tutors are usually well-educated individuals who wish to make extra money by tutoring, usually in a limited range of subjects.  Freelance tutors will advertise by placing flyers on bulletin boards or taking out a classified ad in a newspaper.  The quality of the tutor is generally unknown unless one has word-of-mouth recommendations.  Some may be very good, while others may not.  They may or may not have teaching experience or advanced degrees.  Rates vary and may be lower than those of tutoring services.  One is assured of getting one-on-one attention from the tutor.  This may be especially helpful for getting through a tough section of a particular subject.  Background information regarding criminal records will not be available.