Teaching and tutoring are two different things. When you teach, you are dealing with a classroom of students; when you tutor, you are dealing with only one student at a time. You can learn to communicate with the student on a level they will understand. If you have a knack for language arts, you may want to tutor students in that course. The following will tell you how.
Instructions
1. Visit your local school and talk to the teachers. They can recommend students who need extra work in language arts. They have possibly laid the groundwork for you--talking to the parents--and may have students for you to tutor.
2. Meet with the students. You want to talk individually with each student. Not all students and tutors are a match. You need to select the students who you can relate to and who can relate to you, so that you can help them.
3. Talk with the parents. If you find a student that you feel you can help, you need to talk to the parents. If everyone is together on this, you then need to set up a schedule.
4. Challenge the student. You need to find a way to challenge the student to do better in language arts. Set up games to make the subject seem easier, and before the student realizes it, they will absorb the material and their grades will improve.
5. Change your methods as needed. Not every student will respond the same way to everything you do. Be ready to adapt a new approach to language arts when the situation calls for it.
6. Tutor online. You can get tutoring jobs online and never leave your home or see the student. This is more of a challenge because you don't get to meet your students as you do when you tutor face-to-face. However, the rewards are great when you can see the student's language arts grade go up.
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