Vantaggi
- Minimal planning necessary for each student - Awesome personal connections with regular students - Management in location in Northeast Ohio was very accommodating - Fair compensation for work (I earned $13.75 an hour) - Most problems I had were with the style of group tutoring and effectiveness on students. Selfishly, the job is quite simple and kind if you do not give the students' goals a second thought (not my experience lol)
Svantaggi
- Not sustainable as sole income - Occasionally, there are some extremely high expectations placed on student progress even when we only see them once a week for 2 hours. - Sometimes feels like daycare more than focused tutor work (expect a WIDE variety of skill levels) - Will be assigned students of skill levels/topics outside of comfort zone (You are mostly teaching math and reading. I do not teach these subjects, and was placed teaching things I was never VERY effective trained to teach, especially to struggling students, and that was tough) - teaching 2-4 students at a time can be more taxing than expected. Many students who need a LOT of help can be placed at tables together or with other moderately needy students who end up getting no help at all. You will become VERY good at multitasking. - Sometimes it felt like this style of tutoring/teaching only really worked for moderately needy students. It is a disservice to place a Junior who needs some Trigonometry help at a table with two 2nd graders who cannot read their "independent" work (a common issue)