Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Paid Tutoring

Since a lot of us are striving for high grades, I have been hired as a tutor at my school for$9.50/hour. I have been asked to tutor many different subjects (Chem,Bio,English, Basic Math) now that I'm at the intermediate level with most of my classes. Beginning students really need the help. Lectures are so fast and packed with students that if students have questions they can't ask anything, so they get lost immediately. Many students give up easily in this situation when they all they need is simple clarification actually.
  Fyi: the best thing you can teach anyone is confidence that they can do it. Constantly pepper your tutoring session repeatedly with praise telling them "you got it, good job, way to go...and others".....this is the biggest thing you can do for them. When students have questions they feel lost and stupid because they didn't get a subject right away like the rest of the class. Confidence reenforcement to create replies between you and the student is the BEST thing you can do.
   Tutor Tip: if you are rusty on the topic with a student, just ask another tutor to help you when they are free. Tell the student you are rusty or don't, rather than teaching them the wrong thing. Don't guess! It will make students mad at you, frustrated that you wasted their time in learning the wrong thing and have to relearn it again....better to say "I don't know this stuff to well. Let me get another tutor to help you" .Then sit in on the session yourself,2nd tutor, yourself and student to learn it yourself for next time. You'll become a great tutor yourself.

Summer Tutoring:
  Several of the multi-subject tutors are left on during the summer quarter to help out with the super fast summer classes. Many of them work apart time schedule about 17 hours/week. It is decent summer work doing what you already know. Many good tutors after graduation are hired staff too where I work. It is a good transition job after graduation while job searching.

Statewide E-tutoring Network:
  My state off Washington have a huge, statewide E-tutoring portal with tutor for every subject. This is another job that I was offered to do through some of my coworkers that do it already. It is another seperate area that you make money in. It is completely online through a portal and you can pickup additional work this way.
 
YouTube website: (make a following)
  Another thing that several tutoring coworkers are going to start is their own YouTube website with technical tutorials with several different subjects.

Hope these are some useful money making ideas.

Off to study myself

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