Recommended English Tutor - Their Qualities

[ice_blockie]

Kudos to your students, enwiabe I agree with your points but just to clear up any misunderstandings, what I was trying to get at as a whole is that tutoring should be active, i.e. the tutor should be actively engaged in promoting student learning outcomes.

For fear of going off onto another tangent, in relation to the OP's questions, I think what makes a GOOD ENGLISH TUTOR is that they actively seek out your weaknesses but also actively promote ways of correcting your errors and avoiding them to ensure that your performance is your best. I'm sure enwiabe will agree with me here.

So it's really how you are as a student. Some ideas are listed below:

What do I want the tutoring for? What role should the tutoring play?
Do you need help honing your skills in getting high scores?
Do you need help with the fundamentals of essay writing?
Do you need someone to help you deconstruct the main ideas and themes?
Do you need someone to help motivate you or guide you to study?

Your answer to each of the above will certainly give you a bigger picture about what you need. If you ask potential tutors how they can help you achieve your goals then it's more likely that you get a good tutor.

[kenhung123]

Has anyone at all had any experience with any VN tutors? Satisfied?
Please provide recommendations..

[periwinkle]

Has anyone at all had any experience with any VN tutors? Satisfied?
Please provide recommendations..

  On several tutors' threads in 'Advertising' there are recommendations/endorsements from other members

[m@tty]

I haven't seen many student reviews. I thinks these are more relevant, only when they are available of course.

[kenhung123]

Yea I mean especially now when they finished the entire course

[24lover]

the things is, many students don't come back after they've finished vce to comment because that's it - they've finished!

and with the credentials - the simplest and best thing to do is to ask if they can give you some evidence eg/ name in the newspaper, their vcaa results sheet. If they have nothing to hide then they shouldn't have any problems with that. I know I'd be very happy to prove that I'm worthy of student's time.

[redmosez]

I completely agree with enwiabe.

Also I think another very important thing for English tutors to consider is whether a particular student is stronger at maths/science type subjects or humanities/arts.

I believe you can approach English mathematically and still do very well (well VCE English anyway).

I also find a lot of students have gaps/problems with basic gramma. Primarily because it's not taught too well in primary/early high school (most anyway).

Spending some time to clear up little things like apostrophes, comma use, common spelling mistakes etc can greatly impact a students confidence.

[kenhung123]

Mathematical approach to English? Sounds interesting.

[redmosez]

Mathematical approach to English? Sounds interesting.

What I mean is it's not as subjective as it seems. The structure is pretty straight forward with most essays.

It's just about taking it a little bit further than (for example) the TEEL structure etc

It's not difficult to be structured and still stand out. I guess it's about getting an essay structure that is unique but still works.

[kenhung123]

Are you a tutor?

[redmosez]

Are you a tutor?

Kind of, I tutored a 2 people in English who were having a little trouble this year. It was pretty beneficial because it kind of worked as study for myself as well.

We'll see how that turns out in ~3 days tho

[kenhung123]

How do you know whether an english tutor is good?
For other subjects you will know after 1 lesson or 2 because its based on whether you understand the concepts or not (preferably easily).

[EvangelionZeta]

If they seem to come across as knowing what they're talking about, and if their marking is good.

[kenhung123]

Lots of comments?

[EvangelionZeta]

Constructive comments.  =)