Before you choose a tutor or tutoring program, make an appointment to sit down with your child, your child’s teacher or teachers, and counselor to map out your child’s  specific needs. To create a program with the highest potential of success in tutoring children, be sure to get answers to the following questions:

  1. What kind of tutoring does my child need? Does my child need basic skills review, student homework help, or more intensive assistance?
  2. In what areas do we want to see improvement: better grades in a subject (English, geometry); improved general skills (math, reading), study skills, goal setting and motivation?
  3. What is my child’s learning style? Does he or she learn best by reading, listening, or moving and touching?
  4. Does my child learn better from men or women?
  5. Does he or she need lots of nurturing or firm discipline?
  6. What motivates and interests him or her?
  7. How much money can we spend on tutoring?
  8. How much time can we devote to tutoring?
  9. When can we expect to notice results?
  10. What kinds of results are reasonable for us to expect?