Tips for choosing a suitable tutor

Tips for choosing a suitable tutor

Choosing a tutor can be a headache and I am here to take away this headache from you.

However, the following is my principles while sourcing tutors for you.

1. Your child's need

Sometimes it does not meant a MOE trained teacher can teach your child, sometimes it depends on the chemistry and if both the tutor and your child share the same way of learning to excellence. The idea of having a tutor is to teach your child the duplicable study method towards self-dependence.
The bottom line is, the MOE trained may know the syllabus but the non-trained has their way of cracking the syllabus and score.

2. Race/Local/Foreign* especially applicable to languages

This is definitely important because some concepts are difficult to understand and may require bilingual explanations. For example, English/mother tongue tuition, it is more advantageous to have same native mother tongue speaker than different. However, engage foreign native speakers if your child is in secondary because these tutors can share things outside of our country . For primary students, try to stick to local tutors as local context they know better.

3. Budget

Every tutor has different needs, and the more well-trained and more experienced normally will require a higher rate due to the time they contribute in education, after all, full-time tutors do not have paid holidays & MCs, with the ad-hoc cancellations and rest after exams, they have to balance market rates and their survival is dependable on your referrals. Hence they would have to consider carefully about their rates. At last, my mentor told me before I left MOE, I must deliver what is being paid.

4. Qualifications

Personally my feel is qualifications is only a way to proof the best area of the tutor, however the grade is not the ultimate deciding factor to determine if a tutor can teach. Of course the safest we tends to go for officially trained teachers but like Doctors, teachers are also gaining experience and becoming better over the years. However, years of experience is easy to fake, with what they describe about teaching, we can more or less feel the experience of the tutor, with the help of their age.

5. Chemistry / Rapport with Student

Note, it is the rapport with your child, most parents prefer tutors who had chemistry with them rather than the child. Of coz the ideal case is to have rapport for both parents and child, but sometimes, hard to find one which satisfy both.

This is the process that I will go through stage by stage to minimise chances of unsuitable tutor.

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