Home Tutor in Singapore

How Do You Know You Have The Right
Home Tutor For Your Child?

You may have decided quite quickly that your child needed additional home tuition because he or she was stuck on a specific subject. Perhaps as parents you have deliberated for some time not knowing if home tuition is right for your child and how would you know you had picked the right private tutor.

Regardless of your child’s individual learning needs and preferences and whether those needs are being met at regular school or not, you still may need to accept that your child is not prepared to take on home tuition at this time. You may be eager for him or her to improve but, depending on the real reasons why he or she is struggling at school, your child may not be quite so keen.

If your child is open to the idea, success will lie in the chemistry and relationship that develops between your child and the home tutor. So, how will you know you have chosen the right one? Actually, how will you go about finding one in the first place?

Although you can search the internet checking home tutors websites and less than reputable home tuition agencies, you will save a great deal of time by contacting a local and dependable home tuition agency. They have the knowledge, skills and experience in choosing the right home tutor for you and your child.

You may also be concerned with lacking the understanding of how exactly even the best home tutor will help your child especially if the problems seem to be more than just academic learning.
 

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Learning how to learn

Professional home tutors not only have the requisite skills and expertise to teach your child or help your child to learn about specific subjects. The top home tutors have far more to offer you and your children.

• They have the ability to encourage your child to develop an inner belief that he or she can overcome any challenge with which they may be faced. (This inner belief will last a lifetime). With that belief your child will meet any learning challenges or difficulties at school or with home tuition and deal with them successfully.
• It is the goal of the top managers in business and industry to work them selves out of a job by developing their staff to be able to take over with relative ease. The better home tutors have the same objective. Rather than be focused on “teaching” and of course earning an income their key goal is to develop your child’s confidence, belief and determination so that the home tutor is no longer needed and your child can return to his or her regular school environment able to meet the demands of the school curriculum
   

“The absence of the ability to meet learning challenges can cripple development, but its presence can go a long way toward enabling someone to advance his or her life.” A Parent’s Guide To Tutors And Tutoring.

Choose a home tutor who can demonstrate that they not only understand the importance of this but also have a track record of success with past students.

 

Hong Qian recently moved to a challenging and academically excellent high school. Within a few months Xiao Qian had gone from a gold star primary school pupil to a below average student. His parents became very concerned about this change and spoke with us at the Home Tuition Agency.

With great reluctance Hong Qian agreed to working with a home tutor to try and get his grades back to where they should be. A few months later…

“It’s not that I needed help with the subjects, I needed help with how to learn the subjects. No-one could help me or so I thought. Moving to high school had hit me hard and because I couldn’t meet the challenges I switched off and didn’t make any effort. With the help and support of my home tutor I began to develop a real sense of worth, I understood how to go about learning and planning my work. Not only have my grades improved dramatically I believe I have an invaluable set of skills I will use through the rest of my life” Hong Qian
 

How Will You Know You Have The Right Home Tutor
To Meet the Needs Of Your Child?

There are three very important characteristics you should be looking for in determining which home tutor will be effective in developing your child.

• The tutor gains the trust of your child and with that bond your child is more likely to share his or her true concerns about school and his or her progress, actual working habits, and what is stopping him or her from moving forward.
• This willingness to share and determination to move forward comes from the innate ability of the home tutor to be regarded as a friend and confidant, rather than a teacher or a parent figure both of whom have a vested interest in the eyes of your child.
• Once the key obstacle to your child’s progress have been identified and the home tutor determines exactly why your child is struggling the tutor helps your child by facilitating the change from bad learning habits to good learning habits. Also preparing your child with an effective skill set to meet the challenges he or she will face with particular subjects or the teaching styles of individual teachers.

We are not criticizing teachers. However, unlike teachers home tutors have the ability the time and flexibility to observe your child on a one-on-one basis and, as a result, provides ongoing focused personal instruction. Oftentimes this leads to a speedy and positive change in attitude and behavior which could take a very long time in a regular school environment alone.

Nicky hated her Math class. Her parents knew it wasn’t her best subject but their concern grew as she became more withdrawn and reluctant to participate in the Math class. Nicky believed she hated her Math teacher who she saw as being unfair and too demanding on her in class. This wasn’t really the case but she thought so.

Over time and with the help of her home tutor she started to make real progress. The home tutor wasn’t any less demanding or any less challenging on Nicky wanting to prepare her for the Math classroom but she trusted the tutor and was able to focus and concentrate in the safe environment that wasn’t the Math classroom. She also began to feel far less intimidated by the subject. The habits and attitude the home tutor instilled in Nicky enabled her to feel more confident with the subject and far more comfortable in the classroom.

The home tutor is supplied by the Home Tuition Agency.

When deciding a home tutor is qualified to “teach” your child you need to think beyond the standard teaching qualifications and knowledge of a given subject. These criteria are very important but still only part of what a successful home tutor is all about.

The better home tutors bring with them additional skills and expertise with which they will get the best out of your child developing and preparing them far beyond that needed in teaching a single subject…
 

• Ability to show your child how to learn effectively preparing him or her not just to succeed at school but for a lifetime.
• Ability to build trust and true working partnership with your child.
• True commitment to prepare your child to continue developing under his or her own determination and will to succeed.
• Experience and expertise in developing children of the same age and qualification levels.

There are a number of Home Tuition Services being set up on the internet and in towns and cities. Many market themselves as being able to identify exactly what your child needs. It is difficult to understand how that can be possible if they have never met your child or are using standard generalized templates when each child is uniquely different.

It is important that your child is regarded as a unique individual and that the time and effort is taken to understand fully his or her unique challenges and learning difficulties if the right home tutor is to be selected.