The Effectiveness of Tutoring

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In the year 2014 there are tutors for all subjects. These individuals can be viewed as private or personal teachers. Their job is to educate their students and at the same time broaden minds academically. Tutors are also seen as guidance models. They can support students, give advice, encourage, and give navigation in the right direction. Tutors can compare to teachers in this way.
Tutoring is an effective tool used in educated individuals. Lee Wing Ho Rico’s journal article he says, “[tutoring] is developed to increase opportunities so that students are more likely to make active academic responses to the curriculum” (Ho Rico, 1-2). Basically he is saying that tutoring is a way for students to better themselves academically. Later he discusses peer tutoring and says that it is an alternative for teaching (2). Instead of having the teacher teach peers are educating each other. Not only is one person helping another, but the individuals are learning together. Most of the time students understand each other better than a teacher to student relationship. Students are on the same level with each other which may be helpful in the effectiveness of tutoring. One aspect that he touches on regards participation. He implies that in a tutoring session tutees have a greater chance of answering questions or problems. He compares this to a classroom situation where some students do not always have the chance to ask the teacher questions is they are having difficulty understanding (22). Not only that but students may feel embarrassed in front of their peers if they ask questions and may avoid asking the teacher for exactly this reason. However, if a tutoring session the student can feel less stressed or embarrassed because it is only him or h...

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...efit of an increased grade students are actually learning instead of feeling pressured to only memorize information to do well on testing. Overall, tutoring is a very positive concept that should be implemented and utilized more; especially free tutoring where nothing is lost, only gained.

Works Cited

Ho Rico, L. W. (n.d.). Student Perception and Effectiveness. The HKU Scholars Club. Retrieved May 4, 2014, from http://hub.hku.hk/bitstream/10722/30097/1/FullText.pdf?accept=1
Munley, V. (n.d.). The Effectiveness of Peer Tutoring on Student Achievement at the University Level. JSTOR. Retrieved May 7, 2014, from http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.ycp.edu:8000/stable/27805004?seq=1
Rosenblatt, M. (n.d.). Effective Tutoring and School Improvement. Pastoral Care in Education. Retrieved May 7, 2014, from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-0122.00240#.U2q_MIFdVyU

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