All About Finding & Evaluating Tutors
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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.
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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.
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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. -
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. -
Can I check with parents out there…
1) A tutor claim that she is a ex-moe teacher, but later I found out she was only a
short term pri sch relief teacher. Is she qualified?
2) If she claim that she was trained oversea for maths, major in secondary sch level.
Will she able to teach primary maths? the method tested in PSLE?
Actually she was recommended by a tuition agency, but I felt cheated as I found out she was only relief teacher and not sure she is able to teach or known the syllabus?Does relief teacher teach in class or they are there to 'babysit '? -
Agree with SchTutors. The agency should have advised you on all these.
All of us who are school teachers will have our NIE certificate, plus any other letters or certificates from the schools we are or were in, indicating our service. -
Schtutors:
Hi Puzz..zzle, most ex-MOE teachers should have a NIE certificate unless she belongs to a unique case. Did you ask her to produce it?
Unique case? What unique case? I have not known a single ex-MOE teacher who does not have her NIE certificate, unless they are foreigners.
[quote]Also, if she is trained in secondary school level, then she will not be able to teach your child primary school maths as the methods are different. The tuition agency you engaged should have advised you on that. [/quote]I wonder what the agency is doing. -
Thanks Schtutors & Senseimichael for your advise. Firstly the agency told she is a school teacher so I guess she should be fine .During 1st lesson she said she is teaching in XXX pri sch, I called up the school and checked, there was no such person. 2nd lesson then she said she was a relief teacher in that sch, now no contract, waiting to go to another pri sch. That made me felt puzzled…
According to my DD, she need to refer to the answer behind the book, is it common for a full time maths tutor?
She keep saying method of doing Olympiad maths is quite similar to sch maths?? not right??
I didn’t ask for her certs as tuition center claim had checked. Will she feel offence if I ask to see her certs?
Am I right, if you feel doubts or no confidence with this tutor, should stop engage her?? -
Puzz...zzle:
According to my DD, she need to refer to the answer behind the book, is it common for a full time maths tutor?
I will say this depends on the tutor, but most of us would have already looked through the answer key before our lessons, if we do need to refer to it.
[quote]She keep saying method of doing Olympiad maths is quite similar to sch maths?? not right??[/quote]For primary school, we teach process thinking skills and modelling for most of the questions. For non-routine questions, yes, then perhaps some of the stuff from the Math Olympiad will be useful. -
i just dismissed my chinese tutor.
even after 2 years of 1-1 under her, son hasn't made much improvement...using my son as a guideline would be reliable since he is older...since he is in sec 1, i would expect him to wake up and listen more attentively in class. it wasn't an easy decision :frustrated:
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