All About Finding & Evaluating Tutors
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Geraldinelim:
To help a student score, it's not just the tutor and child. Personally i think parents play an important role. We as parent should work closely with the tutor and school teachers to help our child to improve. Not just pushing the blame to others. Ultimately, we engage tutors to seek their professional help, to work with them, not to push our responsibility to them.
Geraldine, life would have been much, much easier for teachers and tutors if parents think like you. Many parents are simply too busy or simply do not have the emotional means to work that closely with the teachers and tutors to help their children. Kudos to you! -
Geraldinelim:
To help a student score, it's not just the tutor and child. Personally i think parents play an important role. We as parent should work closely with the tutor and school teachers to help our child to improve. Not just pushing the blame to others. Ultimately, we engage tutors to seek their professional help, to work with them, not to push our responsibility to them.
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We engage professional tutors for their expertise and as such we should work with them...they come just once a week, so it isn't fair to demand miracles. -
janet_lee88:
To take the devil's advocate here: parents pay good money for miracles. The problem is how the market works. Those who can produce the miracles need to make a lot of sacrifices and so will ask for an amount no parent is willing to pay. And those who jumped in to say they can produce the miracles when they cannot, are simply making money off market sentiments.
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We engage professional tutors for their expertise and as such we should work with them...they come just once a week, so it isn't fair to demand miracles.
I believe tutors should be frank to the parents and let them know when some miracles simply cannot be attained, rather than give false hope. And some parents really need to look beyond a child's grades for his future. I know all parents want their kids to be scholars, but I used to tell my lovely MA class of 40 that the char kway teow man at Margaret Drive earned three times my pay!
The present system in Singapore is seriously not healthy, even if many governments around the world admire us for our ability to produce good workers. -
It’s not right for tutors to promise miracles. As parents, we have to be realistic. Accept our kids for what they are.
Oh yes, professional tutors should not humiliate the kids like verbally abusing them like making them feel lousy and how weak they are.
Parents, work with your tutors but do check with your kids occasionally on tutors’ behaviors and how punishment is meted out for cases like forgetting to bring or get homework done. Probe. -
Also make sure to keep a file of the work and materials covered by the tutor during class. If possible, ask the tutor to have a trial lesson with you. I have had many parents who have told me about previous tutors who don’t put in effort or are not consistent with their teaching.
Cheers
Miss Raja
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Yes, we need to know what has been taught during the lessons and work should be marked and filed up.
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i am curious about something…who sets PSLE questions for english compo, comprehension as well as the other components ?
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there have been several cases of tutors/tuition agencies which appeared in the news of late…dishonest cases.
seriously, MOE needs to step in.
last min cancellations for ridiculous reasons, verbal abuse of kids, throwing kids work on the floor, making kids do humiliating things. if parents withdraw kids from private tutors, tutors should refund the amount automatically. -
janet_lee88:
I agree with you janet, some tutors are just ridiculous. They deserve to be blacklisted and nv to be able to teach again. It just pure black luck to run into people like them and usually these tutors are very young like 18-22.there have been several cases of tutors/tuition agencies which appeared in the news of late...dishonest cases.
seriously, MOE needs to step in.
last min cancellations for ridiculous reasons, verbal abuse of kids, throwing kids work on the floor, making kids do humiliating things. if parents withdraw kids from private tutors, tutors should refund the amount automatically.
But I think sometimes some parents play a part too. my friend was shopping with me last sat and 30 mins before class, she realized her daughter has a tuition! She told me and said that its alright, cause she sms her tutor to say that her daughter is not free and cant have lesson. I was shocked. I will never do that, the tutor might be half way there alrdy and doing this is really unfair to the tutor.
I even told her that if the tutor is good and u treat her like that, she will run and teach others' kids not hers, its just irresponsible. -
Parents play a big part too…it is a 2 way thing. If the tutor is reliable, dedicated and doing her part, effort must be put in to keep her…like reminding kids to get homework done. it is very hard to find a good tutor.
It is not always the case that unreliable tutors are the young ones…some mature home tutors can SMS 2 hours before the lesson to cancel…giving a reason like the students want a break…when it is just few weeks before SA.
Unfortunately, young tutors usually take the most blame because they disappear when they have exams.