Remember that your students have much to teach you!
Excerpt from Tutoring Matters: Everything
You Always Wanted to Know About How to Tutor Jerome Rabow,
Tiffani Chin, Nima Fahimian.
- Treat your tutees as equals.
- Don't worry about mistakes - they provide the best opportunity
for teaching and learning.
- Don't be critical of your tutees.
- Recognize your differences, a vital step to building a
tutoring relationship.
- Recognize your commonalties, a vital step to building
a tutoring relationship.
- Be supportive of tutees' efforts as well as their accomplishments.
- Be hopeful.
- Make learning active, fun, visual, and hands-on.
- Keep your eye on the significance of your effort in your
tutees' lives.
- Do not use bribes or gifts to motivate your tutee.
- Be willing to share your experience when you think it's
appropriate.
- Don't make empty promises.
- Don't forget how important you are - your tutee depends
on you.
- Be on time.
- Use differences between you and your tutee to open up
honest conversations.
- Forgive your errors and those of your tutee-they were
unintentional.
- Be open-minded.
- Be empathetic toward your students and their experiences.
- Be observant and pay attention to what your tutees enjoy
and how they learn.
- Incorporate tutee interests into your activities and assignments.
- Be creative.
- Set educated goals and strive for them.
- Ignore labels - they only show you part of a person.
- Be respectful.
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