How to Become a Tutor
Identify your expertise., Gain recognition., Consult an attorney., Understand the curriculum., Make your lessons interesting and interactive., Listen to your students; respond to what they know or don't understand, and prepare future lessons to...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Identify your expertise.
No doubt you already know what that is, but if not, or if your expertise is broad, focus on a favorite discipline or topic -
Step 2: Gain recognition.
It helps to attain recognition of your qualifications by being actively involved in the knowledge or discipline you are representing, by degree or other official documentation, or by both.
Participate in online forums, write articles for journals or other relevant publications, and volunteer as guest speaker at seminars and other professional congregations. , If you want to tutor school children there will likely be rules and laws concerning this in your area. , Make sure you know and understand the curriculum or syllabus you are going to teach, so that you can maximize the effectiveness of your lesson plans.
Prepare your lessons and practice them.
Be very well organized from the first.
It is better to be over-prepared than to run dry out of ideas way through a session. , In a good lesson the students will do much of the work—you will guide them to discovery. , -
Step 3: Consult an attorney.
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Step 4: Understand the curriculum.
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Step 5: Make your lessons interesting and interactive.
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Step 6: Listen to your students; respond to what they know or don't understand
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Step 7: and prepare future lessons to account for any deficiencies.
Detailed Guide
No doubt you already know what that is, but if not, or if your expertise is broad, focus on a favorite discipline or topic
It helps to attain recognition of your qualifications by being actively involved in the knowledge or discipline you are representing, by degree or other official documentation, or by both.
Participate in online forums, write articles for journals or other relevant publications, and volunteer as guest speaker at seminars and other professional congregations. , If you want to tutor school children there will likely be rules and laws concerning this in your area. , Make sure you know and understand the curriculum or syllabus you are going to teach, so that you can maximize the effectiveness of your lesson plans.
Prepare your lessons and practice them.
Be very well organized from the first.
It is better to be over-prepared than to run dry out of ideas way through a session. , In a good lesson the students will do much of the work—you will guide them to discovery. ,
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