All About Finding & Evaluating Tutors

[weatherbee]

Ask around.

[Wonderdad]

Tuition agencies

[Wonderdad]

Wonder if are there really so many word of mouth cases? And if there are indeed really accurate? As individual kid’s learning pace and weaknesses are unique and the same tutor might not be able to meet the requirements.


If it’s so good, tuition agencies would have gone out of business already.
So I think parents will still go to tuition agencies.

[ScaredyMum]

Would like to hear how do other parents assess the results/performance of the tutor? Does slight improvement in results (< 5%) after 5 months of tutoring considered "positive results"? What is a reasonable amount of improvement we can expect from a 1-1 tutor?


I have a chinese tutor for my DS (P5) since June. Though its from recommendation (and apparently quite highly raved by her other students), there is no significant improvement in my DS results. She kept telling us my DS is clever, with her guidance PSLE sure can do well blah blah blah promising the sky, sun & moon, but after 5 months my DS results for SA2 only improved by ard 3% and is still in the 60+%… dunno if i should trust her and continue or switch tutor before its too late?

[karinchung]

Hi, in my opinion. 3% is very minimum. My tutor was from recommendation too. Before i hired her, she gurantee improvement in grammar section within 10 lessons and now my dd scores full marks for all grammar question. I think you should seriously think of changing.


Chinese is the easiest to score in psle. must make sure your dd gets A.

[Kellystarry]

For mine, although it’s tuition centre, I still keep track. Anyway, the centre always have monthly test set for my girl so I know how much she has improved. Her maths is her weakest…problem sums and fractions her biggest nightmare. Now she can get 16/20 instead of 5/20 in the past. Overall improved by 15 marks.


Tutor/teacher must communicate with parent…i get monthly feedback from the centre so i can monitor my girl too:)

[ScaredyMum]

karinchung:

Hi, in my opinion. 3% is very minimum. My tutor was from recommendation too. Before i hired her, she gurantee improvement in grammar section within 10 lessons and now my dd scores full marks for all grammar question. I think you should seriously think of changing.


Chinese is the easiest to score in psle. must make sure your dd gets A.

Hi thanks for your advice. Do you have any recommendations for Chinese tutor?

[Skyed]

ScaredyMum:

karinchung:

Hi, in my opinion. 3% is very minimum. My tutor was from recommendation too. Before i hired her, she gurantee improvement in grammar section within 10 lessons and now my dd scores full marks for all grammar question. I think you should seriously think of changing.


Chinese is the easiest to score in psle. must make sure your dd gets A.

Hi thanks for your advice. Do you have any recommendations for Chinese tutor?

In primary school I used to go to Han Language Centre. They're quite good if you pay attention in class. I didn't :oops:

[ScaredyMum]

Skyed:

ScaredyMum:

[quote=\"karinchung\"]Hi, in my opinion. 3% is very minimum. My tutor was from recommendation too. Before i hired her, she gurantee improvement in grammar section within 10 lessons and now my dd scores full marks for all grammar question. I think you should seriously think of changing.


Chinese is the easiest to score in psle. must make sure your dd gets A.

Hi thanks for your advice. Do you have any recommendations for Chinese tutor?

In primary school I used to go to Han Language Centre. They're quite good if you pay attention in class. I didn't :oops:[/quote]Tuition centres doesn't work, he has attended Skylace but he didn't pay attention in class, didn't learn his spelling etc etc, so...

Private tutor works better, his EL has improved by 10% after private tutoring. The chinese tuition started at the same time but did not see such results so I wondered is it because the tutor is not effective.

[Skyed]

[quote]Tuition centres doesn't work, he has attended Skylace but he didn't pay attention in class, didn't learn his spelling etc etc, so...


Private tutor works better, his EL has improved by 10% after private tutoring. The chinese tuition started at the same time but did not see such results so I wondered is it because the tutor is not effective.[/quote]Languages are more difficult to improve... Cannot expect to see instant results.. Haha, for me I aim for Chinese has always been to just pass. So my O level chinese B3 I happy already. Thank goodness in JC also don't need to use it in calculation of university admission score.