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Private Tutoring
The rewards of tutoring
Private tutoring is solid means of supplementing your income. Whether you want to save money or pay off your student loans or simpy save, tutoring is a fantastic way of making a substantial amount of additional money. You can expect to make $17-85 USD per hour by private tutoring. It is not uncommon for ESL teachers to double their income or more a year.
Who wants to receive private tutoring?
People of all ages, from children to adults, look to tutoring to improve their English. Parents recognize English as an important part of their children’s future. School graduates often look to score well on their TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) to continue higher education in an English speaking nation. Business people look for tutors’ assistance to communicate more effectively in the international language of commerce, English.
How to pick up tutoring clients?
If you are looking to tutor children or young adults one of the best ways is through word of mouth. Often teachers who are leaving the country will pass on their tutoring students to newly arrived teachers. Just by meeting people in the community you are living in you will soon find that they will be asking you to tutor their kids, cousin or friends.
When it comes to picking up business English clients, our TESOL course trains students how to take a more proactive approach. So many owners of small/medium sized businesses today realize the importance of improving the communication skills of their staff. We point out that you only need one or two such businesses as clients to give you more than enough work. During the LCC TESOL course we explain how to identify, approach the decision makers and secure potentially lucrative tutoring deals.
What is the nature of private tutoring
The reality of the tutoring market is that it tends to be somewhat fickle. Tutoring clients often start out enthusiastically but when they realize that progress in improving their English might take more time (and money) than they originally thought, they tend to become discouraged. ESL teachers, who conduct private tutoring overseas, often report that their students start postponing sessions after a few meetings and frequently end up pulling out of the tutoring arrangement soon thereafter.
How to manage the tutoring process?
One of the main reasons why clients prematurely end tutoring sessions is because they don’t feel that they're making any real progress. Bottom line, they are not getting enough “bang for their buck.”
This frequently occurs because the tutor approaches the client in much the same way they would an ESL class. That is, in a teacher-centered way rather than client-centered. This is not surprising given that few TESOL courses train their students on the specific skills required to effectively tutor.
During the LCC TESOL course we show our students how to approach a tutoring client as both a student who wants to improve their English, but also as a customer who wants to be understood and satisfied.
This involves learning how to elicit a tutoring client’s “buying criteria”, developing a tutoring plan that genuinely meets their needs and thereafter tutoring in such a way that they client continues to feel motivated and excited about what they are accomplishing.
We also show our students how to manage the tutor-client relationship from a business point of view. This involves structuring the financial arrangements in such a way that the tutor is protected from the fickle tendencies of the tutoring clients. We pay particular attention to effectively managing the tutor-client relationship in the field of tutoring Business English.
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