teachers!! tutor question!?

The tutoring centers are easy to work at because everything is laid out for you. You start at time A, you leave at time B, and you have no homework! But the pay is terrible!!!

It is an excellent way to get your feet wet, especially while waiting to grow a student customer base.

House-to-House the pay is GREAT! You can tutor the way you see fit. However, you can get stuck with chatty parents for an hour after the session. For that reason, I would usually end 10 minutes early and use the time to address parent questions and show progress, etc. You need to have some prepared remedial material and then move on to helping with their homework.

Advertise word of mouth to teachers and friends. One student will lead to 20, quickly.

So you wanna be a tutor? Start with one kid and focus on the subject you are best at. Experience for yourself what it’s like interacting with the student and his/her parents. Get a feel for the tutoring business. When you have gained some experience, get more students. Here’s what you can do to find clients/students:

1. Contact counselors in local schools.

2. Put up fliers in supermarkets, laundromats, library bulletin boards.

3. Find out if there are community centers or libraries that offer facilities or programs for tutoring.

4. Take out an advertisement in a local newspaper–for cheaper rates, look for weeklies or all-ad papers.

5. Put fliers on phone poles.

6. Stand outside the school during parents’ night and pass out fliers to all the adults that pass.

7. Stuff fliers into faculty mailboxes (get permission from the principal first).

8. Make several 15 minute public-access cable programs that present lessons in your subject(s), and let the cable company show them on public access channels.

9. Wear a t-shirt custom-printed that says “Tutor for Hire!”

10. Go to sites that allow you to post free ads.

As an “in-person” tutor, you can charge a higher rate but you are restricted to specific area – smaller market of potential students. If you tutor online, the rate is lower but you can have a worldwide market of potential students. Try sites like:

(1) http://www.tuitionplaza.com/tutoring/

(2) http://www.tutor.com

(3) … many other sites (use search engine – Good luck!)

Hope this helps you.

Tutor centers pay bad real bad. I had a teaching license and _________ Learning Center paid 11 an hour. The home tutoring visits, started at 25 an hour. BTW the center charged 50 an hour gave 11. If its a corporate tutoring the pay sucks, maybee mom and pop is different.

depends on you. tutor centers are centralized and can pay well. but you never know what you might get in terms of students. but if you go house to house you can often pick your own students and work a little more on your own terms. but the pay can be less when going private.

When I used to tutor, I did it online at tutor.com. I don’t even know if they still exist. Anyway, to find people who need tutoring, you need to advertise. Talk to people you know, word of mouth is always good. Also, you can advertise at the local colleges, etc.

Our school district has established after-school tutoring – at school.

House-to-house is very risky for far too many reasons for me to type.

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