Expectations of an Effective Tutor

Personalized tutoring fills a niche that can’t be filled in today’s schools alone. Tutors fulfill a different role than teachers and parents, and that puts them in a unique position to support students. Personal relationships are foundational to a student’s success — the more connected a student feels to his or her tutor, the more the tutor creates trust and respect, essential ingredients for students to learn well. Successful tutors truly personalize the learning experience and incorporate connections to the student’s interests and strengths, By minimizing the student’s weaknesses.

Communication and collaboration with all stakeholders are key factors to student success. When tutors focus on goal setting, creating benchmarks, and planning, this sets students up for academic progress. Successful tutors co-create individualized learning plans with their students, in collaboration with parents and teachers.

Effective tutors should have specific content expertise and make learning real, relevant, and rigorous.