All About Finding & Evaluating Tutors

[janice_0950]

Yes...I think have to depends of parents required.


However, after my bad experienced. And hired a tutor fr one of a Tuition Agency. Agency introduced one of them. And she with me a year. Within a year, I found out....something which parents concern. Lastly she is not full-time tutor seemed no reasonable @ all. while I noticed she keep on changes her time and cancel. Was told that she in tight scheduled. Because her existing PSLE student's. And I asked she are you not interested to teach my boy. She replied no. Only she are fully scheduled tight. So whatever, she wants the time and I tried to meet her requires. Lastly, sms me she cannot teach my boy. As feeling bad & she scheduled v tight. OMG! what the ....:( sob sob sob! My boy SA2 are coming soon.

So why now I am looking forward full-time tutor. instead of part time etc.

[janice_0950]

:imdrowning: Hi all,


However, any recommends to me? :?: :?:
@ East area (Tampines) upp. primary. (3 subjects) Maths, Eng & Science.
Am wants a full-time tutor. As my bad experience. ;( sob sob sob...

[springdance]

I am trying to decide btw the tutor for my kid who is in K1:


Option 1: Young Preschool Teacher with Early Childhood Edu Cert
Option 2: FT Tutor with 5yrs experience and A Levels cert (no degree)

I know some of you may ask why I need to engage a pte tutor for my kid at such a young age... We have tried putting him through group enrichment classes and he simply dun concentrate well. Both me & huby are FT working and comes home late and are too tired or \"frustrated\" :stompfeet: to teach. Hence, we decided to outsource for the 1-to-1 teacher.

So, if you were me, would you pick option 1 or option 2? :?

[hquek]

Have they met your child? Who is better at engaging/controlling your child?

[Mdm Koh]

Is your intention to prepare your child for primary 1? If so, I think that you need to assess the two tutors’ qualifications and hire one who is able to teach EMS at primary level. When hiring a tutor, view it as a long-term commitment. If your child is happy with the tutor, you can engage the same tutor even after he’s graduated from kindy.


As your child is young and not able to concentrate for long periods of time, you can ask the tutor to give him small breaks between tasks, so that the lesson doesn’t overwhelm him.

[chic_savvy]

Hi parents, just wana ask when choosing a tutor, if the tutor is of a different nationality but teaches the subjects your child requires, are you ok with it or you would prefer someone of a localized background?


I had this experience of having this tutor who is from a different country that taught my daughter both subjects English and Mandarin. The Mandarin was no problem but after the 2nd lesson, when I revised the English spellings words that were gone through with the tutor, to my horror, some of the pronunciations were so wrong! She was a sweet lady but that was her last session.

[Gemini11]

i always believe that if it's two different languages, it's better to separate two different tutors to teach. Cuz we seldom see a person who is good with two languages, plus the child will be confused during the lesson. Is the tutor suppose to converse to him/her in English or Mandrian? :stupid:

[chic_savvy]

Yeah I should then separate the both subjects, but to be honest I didnt know she was a native in her mandarin background until she came. Anyway, she's history

[Lscj]

Original Title: How To Find & Evaluate Tutors?


Hi,

I was interested in finding out what are some of the problems you face when finding the right tuition teacher and how did you go about seeking for a good tutor e.g. engaging a tuition coordinator etc? What are the major concerns you look out for when looking for a new tutor?

The reason is that I am keen to start up a free online service to pair prospective parents with available tutors. However I am not sure how can I improve the search experience for you guys, so any advise would be cool!

[meinteel]

A coordinator attempts to match a parent/child to a tutor but there are inevitably differences that must be resolved.


One of the biggest differences is the price.
Tutors want a good price for their time, parents want to lower their ever rising expenditure. Low price offers will result in more tutor responses with little/no experience or tutors who can’t keep their students for long.

Its good to advise your tutors & parents about the market rate and what to expect so that either side won’t have a rude shock when receiving offers.

Another would be to ask for details and more details. Raise and highlight things that would be objectionable to either side or prepare suffer huge headache & a dent to your reputation. Objectionable points might be race/gender/nationality (as discriminatory as it is), length of tuition (most tutors won’t do just an hour, others require min. 2 hours), length of commitment (just need tuition for june holidays for example/poly module which completes in 2-3months & would not need tuition thereafter) and location. Location defines transportation time (indirect costs) & costs (bus fare etc) and would make a very attractive offer into one that just doesn’t have enough incentives. I.e. I once received for secondary sch tuition at $50. It sounded good till it was mentioned that it will be at Sentosa Cove, & each lesson shall be only 1hour!