Private tutors provide one-on-one educational assistance to elementary and secondary school students or to adults.
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Private tutors provide one-on-one educational assistance to elementary and secondary school students or to adults. As an elementary school tutor, you may help children (grades 1 – 8) improve their skills in reading, writing or math. As a secondary school tutor, you may help students (grades 9 – 12) with English, history, science, math, French or other subjects. Tutors for adults may teach literacy, English or other languages, or other subjects. Generally, you are self-employed and operate a tutoring business. You may also work for a company that specializes in tutoring services or a community literacy organization. You may work out of your own home, your students' home, or a local meeting place like a library or community centre.
Generally, private tutors:
This job requires: College or University
This job requires 2 - 5 years of work experience.
As a private educational tutor, you need to:
You need to communicate in person, on the phone and in writing with students and their parents. You need to present lessons, explain rules and encourage discussion. You need to encourage and motivate students and communicate their progress to parents.
Educational software is often used to help children develop their mathematics, reading and writing skills. Therefore, you need to have good computer skills.
The work prospects for this job are: Not Available
The average hourly wage for this job is: Not Available
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Some college programs in this field include co-operative (co-op) work experience.
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