Personalised tutoring fills an education niche. However, many parents and teachers in the Great Southern realise that tutoring gets to the heart of learning, personalising the meaning and instruction of the subject.
Defining Success
Albany Tutoring works hard to implement the following key factors to improve young people’s learning potential.
1) Successful tutors build strong, personal relationships with their students.
Tutors fill a different role than teachers and parents, putting them in a unique position to support students. Personal relationships are foundational to student success. When a tutor listens and builds a relationship with their student, that tutor can:
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Incorporate connections to the student’s interests.
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Individualise the learning.
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Teach to the student’s strengths.
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Build and reteach learning gaps.
Albany Tutoring found that most of our young people were likelier to increase their homework completion and accuracy. Also, our students were more likely to set goals, use their weekly plan, and improve their general study skills and organisational strategies.
2) Successful tutors listen and often communicate with parents and teachers.
Communication and collaboration with all stakeholders are critical factors in student success. When tutors focus on goal setting, creating benchmarks and planning backwards, this sets students up for academic progress. Albany Tutoring will create an individualised learning plan for each student. Typically, in collaboration with parents and teachers. This leverages education expertise to build a plan for their learning.
3) Successful tutors have specific content expertise.
A successful tutor can make learning accurate, relevant, and rigorous. At Albany Tutoring, we focus on making learning relevant to students’ interests because we know students learn more when they care. All our tutors focus on making the learning rigorous. It’s a fine line to be challenging but not so tough that students get frustrated and stop trying.