The Importance Of Tutoring And Tutoring

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To be a good athlete, one has to spend countless hours training and practicing their craft; one needs to know the proper theories and techniques in order to hone one’s ability, and to hopefully build a foundation in which the athlete continues to reach advanced levels. The same thing can virtually be said of tutoring and tutor training. The engagement between tutor and student (or tutee) may seem like a formal, or sometimes informal, conversation between two or more people, but it is a bit more intricate than that. The tutor has to deal with the many different and wide-ranging personalities of students who come to seek tutoring, but the tutor also has to know the many different types of learning styles to accommodate and ensure that a student …show more content…

For example, it is one thing to know how to write an effective introduction or a solid outline, but it is another to know how to communicate the process of writing an introduction or creating an outline in an easy-to-understand, comprehensive way. In other words, it is not the same to be someone who is simply knowledgeable about a subject trying to help others and to be someone who is knowledgeable about a subject and who tutors others; one can pass a class with a good grade and help his or her classmates by giving them the answers to the homework or for an exam, but this is more of cheating than actually helping, and, in the long-run, does not really help anyone. In contrast, one who passes a class with a good grade, but takes the time to actually teach his or her classmates (who ask for the help) by trying to get them to understand the lesson and to offer helpful studying methods is the prime definition of being a tutor. And the essential difference between the two, the “bridge” that gets one to become the other, is found in tutor training. In tutor training, one becomes well-acquainted with pedagogical theories and gains helpful advice from experts in tutoring and education, which is all really important and crucial in being a good tutor; however, there is another reason why tutor training is important that is not always directly stated in meetings or in group

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