| An educator who provides tutoring for both | | | | through,” a math class, because the concepts |
| homeschooling students and traditional students is | | | | he learns in Basic Math, Pre-algebra and Algebra |
| of great benefit to parents and their children. | | | | will definitely follow him into Algebra II, Precalculus, |
| When working with an educator or “tutor” | | | | Calculus, and even on the SAT, ACT, and college |
| who has experience in tutoring homeschooling | | | | entrance exams. And if a student has not |
| students, a parent knows that his or her child will | | | | mastered many grammar rules over the years, |
| receive not just homework help but also a review | | | | he or she will often find themselves struggling |
| or re-teaching of the class material when | | | | when writing an English essay or history paper. |
| necessary. | | | | If a student is struggling in a certain subject area, |
| In the past, here in the U.S., and even presently in | | | | parents should not rely on a tutor who may have |
| certain countries like England, the concept of | | | | some experience in that area to help their child. |
| tutoring has been slightly different than what we | | | | The tutor may be able to provide a little |
| may be used to. Classes are often instructed by | | | | homework help occasionally but will most likely |
| tutors, who have expertise in that particular | | | | also only help to cover the symptoms of the |
| subject area. In the past in the U.S., students of | | | | problem rather than help the child identify |
| all ages often received one-on-one classes with a | | | | concepts from previous subjects that they may |
| teacher or a tutor. The concept of homeschooling | | | | have missed. |
| today is similar to this. | | | | A tutor who specializes in tutoring homeschooling |
| However, more and more, parents whose children | | | | students will have the expertise in that subject to |
| are attending traditional schools are realizing that | | | | teach the child the subject material, and if the |
| for at least some classes, their children require | | | | tutor is excellent, he or she will also re-teach and |
| additional help that a teacher may not be able to | | | | review material from past school years whenever |
| provide, often because their time must be divided | | | | necessary. |
| amongst all of their students. | | | | As a result of this type of tutoring, the student |
| Even if a teacher only has thirty or forty | | | | begins improving in his or her current class, and |
| students in a given year, it is still difficult to | | | | the confidence that he or she may have lacked in |
| provide additional help and tutoring for each | | | | that subject area over the years will most |
| student who requires it. Unfortunately, students | | | | certainly increase. The student finds that he is not |
| can find themselves struggling to “get | | | | just working with a tutor to “get |
| through” a subject while still not fully | | | | through,” but he begins realizing that he truly |
| comprehending the material, only to find that | | | | has the ability to excel in this subject. |
| aspects of that material appear in later courses. | | | | Good homeschooling tutors realize that their job in |
| As a result, the problems accumulate until the | | | | working with parents is not to just provide |
| student is lost, not because he or she is incapable | | | | homework help during their sessions. It is to both |
| of grasping the new concepts but simply because | | | | help the student understand the material fully and |
| he has not mastered the previous ones. | | | | teach as necessary during the session while also |
| Math, for example, is a cumulative subject. A | | | | providing homework help. |
| student cannot just aspire to “get | | | | |