All About Finding & Evaluating Tutors

[senseimichael]

janet_lee88:

I hope parents understand why I do not want to respond to PMs asking for my kids' tutors.

Scratches head...why?

[janet88]

senseimichael:

janet_lee88:

I hope parents understand why I do not want to respond to PMs asking for my kids' tutors.

Scratches head...why?

Once bitten, twice shy.

[AdonciaTang]

janet_lee88:

senseimichael:

[quote=\"janet_lee88\"]I hope parents understand why I do not want to respond to PMs asking for my kids' tutors.

Scratches head...why?

Once bitten, twice shy.[/quote]I know what you mean janet.

[AdonciaTang]

when we give other parents our tutor’s number and they managed to get them and let the teacher teach, there are 2 possibilities.


1) kiddo did very well and good recommendation, hooray!

2) kiddo no improvement or deproving, blame me for giving them a lousy recommendation.

Not all tutors fit all students, and i cant expect that the tutor i have on hand fits everyone. I am only recommending because it works for my two DS.

[janet88]

i have recommended son’s math & chinese tutors…math tutor is consistent and professional…she focuses on primary school math while her partner teaches sec school math on weekends.


not all tutors suit kids and vice versa. if/when i do give parents the tutors’ contact, i take a risk. of course i do hope their kids do well too.

[hquek]

Actually parents who take pp’s recommendations blindly should not blame others if it does not turn out well. it is very kind of one to share contacts that work. Agree that not all tutors will fit everyone and one may experience a wundertutor that doesn’t work for others. I hope bonafide parents won’t be deterred from posting reviews of tutors/places they try before.


Will reiterate what has been shared before, on the other hand, parents reading such posts should also be aware there are some tutors masquerading as parents. I ‘found’ one in the past…talk until like heaven got, earth don’t have. End up when I googled that phone number, this ‘wundertutor’ was also property agent and what not…I didn’t go further. So far she has not resurfaced for sometime.

We have to do our own due diligence.

[janet88]

Be it tutor or restaurant…someone can recommend how nice a certain restaurant food is, but who knows there is a change of the chef, the food will not be nice then. When parents recommend tutor, they do so with risk.

[White_Gale]

parents should do their homework and be there to monitor the lesson to be sure that the tutor really carry out what he or she promises. If parents are so busy and there is nobody to monitor, wait till SA results are out then vomit blood…too late.

[janet88]

White_Gale:

parents should do their homework and be there to monitor the lesson to be sure that the tutor really carry out what he or she promises. If parents are so busy and there is nobody to monitor, wait till SA results are out then vomit blood...too late.

i do ask kids what tutor teaches after every lesson...anyway, i sit beside when they get tuition homework done. don't leave everything to tutor and assume that everything is fine.

[AliceWonder]

janet_lee88:

White_Gale:

parents should do their homework and be there to monitor the lesson to be sure that the tutor really carry out what he or she promises. If parents are so busy and there is nobody to monitor, wait till SA results are out then vomit blood...too late.

i do ask kids what tutor teaches after every lesson...anyway, i sit beside when they get tuition homework done. don't leave everything to tutor and assume that everything is fine.

Hmmm.. I have a different point of view. If one does not trust a tutor to do his/her work, then why employ him/her in the first place? This is like double-work. Why not get a tutor whom you can trust? Maybe a tutor whom your friend recommends or a MOE teacher.