All About Finding & Evaluating Tutors

[mum03]

Recently I engaged a maths tutor from an agency. The tutor used to teach in sec school, but presently she is only teaching part time in a sec sch.

It seems she as taken assignments from the agency to teach pri sch maths.
The agency recommended her for long term, as she could also teach sec maths when my DD goes to sec sch.
Tutor came by for 1st lesson. She sits at the table and just stare at my DD when she was doing her correction. When DD ask her how to go about doing the problem sums, she told her to try first. DD was staring at the problem sum for 20mins, without understanding how to do.
For 2 hrs lesson DD only manage to do about 5 sums. To top it all tutor was more concern of her personnel appearance,has there is a wall mirror in front of her, she keeps looking at it every 5 mins, and adjusting her hair and earrings. It was so distracting, my DD says if she don’t explain the concept how am I going to solve the problem.

I fired her after 2 lessons. I don’t pay her to stare at my DD.

[sleepy]

That's the reason why I still prefer tuition center, at least there's structured worksheets. And in case I'm not satisfied with teacher, can complain to center, ask them to change teacher or switch to another time slot. I did that twice :evil:


I will only hire a private tutor through word of mouth. But sadly, can't find any reliable recommendation yet.

[AdonciaTang]

janet_lee88:

my daughter dislikes chinese...so i guess she is switched off during her lessons.

i told hubby i cannot guarantee him excellent results if i coach her, but if i am paying $50 every week for an F, might as well i teach myself...give me the money to buy more hair dye.

Lol. so true. it just means the $50 is not working for her.

[AdonciaTang]

sleepy:

That's the reason why I still prefer tuition center, at least there's structured worksheets. And in case I'm not satisfied with teacher, can complain to center, ask them to change teacher or switch to another time slot. I did that twice :evil:


I will only hire a private tutor through word of mouth. But sadly, can't find any reliable recommendation yet.

Yes me too. I don trust home private tutor unless word of mouth.

At least when i send my two DS to tuition centre, I can see great improvement some more. So much better than when i use home tuition.

[janet88]

AdonciaTang:

janet_lee88:

my daughter dislikes chinese...so i guess she is switched off during her lessons.

i told hubby i cannot guarantee him excellent results if i coach her, but if i am paying $50 every week for an F, might as well i teach myself...give me the money to buy more hair dye.

Lol. so true. it just means the $50 is not working for her.

including my son, it works out to be $115 every sat, $460 every month.
it's a risk to take out chinese tuition...but i have to think of my finances if tutor is not able to help.

[TheAnswer]

senseimichael:

vinegar:

She is always rushing n expect me to start teaching new topic to my son,then she does the follow-up.

Huh? What is a tutor for if she's not teaching the topics?

The more I have been around this forum, the weirder the people I get to encounter!

Sadly, in any profession, there are always bad eggs. This forum is an eye opener for me. Never knew such people exist. I guess we do not belong to that category. Tough to comprehend their thinking.

I think for any tutor, if they cannot produce results within 3 to 6 months, I think no point keeping them. Then again the kids themselves also must put in effort. It takes great affinity to find a suitable tutor who is in tune with the kid.

[TheAnswer]

AdonciaTang:

janet_lee88:

my daughter dislikes chinese...so i guess she is switched off during her lessons.

i told hubby i cannot guarantee him excellent results if i coach her, but if i am paying $50 every week for an F, might as well i teach myself...give me the money to buy more hair dye.

Lol. so true. it just means the $50 is not working for her.

If I were you, I would have thrown her out long time ago. No second chances. What's up with them?

[TheAnswer]

janet_lee88:

AdonciaTang:

[quote=\"janet_lee88\"]my daughter dislikes chinese...so i guess she is switched off during her lessons.

i told hubby i cannot guarantee him excellent results if i coach her, but if i am paying $50 every week for an F, might as well i teach myself...give me the money to buy more hair dye.

Lol. so true. it just means the $50 is not working for her.

including my son, it works out to be $115 every sat, $460 every month.
it's a risk to take out chinese tuition...but i have to think of my finances if tutor is not able to help.[/quote]Go for a tuition center which is affordable and can produce results.
2 years with no results. Too much money wasted on this tutor. Haiz.
Hope you get someone who can help soon.

[janet88]

1) 1-1 tuition

2) 2 years
3) $50 for 2 hours every sat
4) end result…F.

i must have been either 1) stressed 2) blind not to realize something is wrong.

my daughter dislikes chinese…so i plan to coach her myself for the next 3 months. P-U-S-H.

[ngl2010]

janet_lee88:

1) 1-1 tuition

2) 2 years
3) $50 for 2 hours every sat
4) end result...F.

i must have been either 1) stressed 2) blind not to realize something is wrong.

my daughter dislikes chinese...so i plan to coach her myself for the next 3 months. P-U-S-H.

Did the tutor improve his Chinese when he was in Primary school?