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My name is chinonso and when i was a lottle younger i found education pretty hard so after struggling hard i am now a teacher and i would like to teach because of these reasons:
The growing demand for teachers. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that the teaching profession will grow considerably in the next decade, with more than 1.5 million jobs for elementary, secondary and special education teachers. You could be one of them!
The opportunity to profoundly impact the lives of children. Research indicates that teacher quality is the most important factor in students’ academic success. And there is tremendous satisfaction in watching a child discover new learning. As the poet William Butler Yeats said, “Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.”
The portability of the teaching credential. If at some point you choose to leave California, your teaching credential will allow you to teach in other states and even, in some cases, overseas.
The family-friendly work schedule. The daily schedule and school holidays will allow you to spend quality time with your family, and summer vacation will allow you to pursue advanced education, engage in hobbies and other work, and enjoy leisure time.
The incentives for continued education. Good teachers never stop learning and growing, and you can earn pay increases with education and professional development credits.
The satisfaction of contributing to your community. By preparing students for lives as informed and engaged citizens, you can benefit your community, your country and the world.
An outlet for your creativity. The need to engage all students in learning calls upon a teacher to be creative in adapting and developing learning activities, and new technologies allow teachers to bring the world – even the universe – into their classrooms. The opportunities for trying new and exciting approaches are endless!
A work environment that is never dull. Teachers will tell you that no two days are ever alike. The variety of people you come in contact with, the changing challenges, the daily discoveries all combine to make teaching an interesting and engaging adventure.
A job that keeps you young. Being surrounded by young people in the energetic environment of a school is a great way to keep your outlook youthful and to retain a sense of playfulness and possibility.
The chance to change the future. As the author Henry B. Adams once said, “A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.” Or, as teacher and astronaut Christa McAuliffe put it, “I touch the future: I teach
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I want to start teaching students as a private tutor. Considering that I have no connections to any school or student, how can I attract students to be taught by me (or how can I begin)?
Welcome to the world of tutoring! As someone who managed to build a reasonably successful tutoring business from scratch, I can give you some points of advice. I don't have all the answers, but I can tell you about some of the most important variables that will influence your success.
First and foremost, you must learn to love your craft. Recognize that every tutoring session is fraught with possible obstacles that can turn your session into a total waste of time for your student. (And if that happens, you're obviously not getting hired back or recommended forward). A good tutoring relationship is a bit like a marriage; the student and tutor have to be able to connect in a certain ineffable way, and there are a dozen things that all have to go just right in order to for that to happen. If any one of them goes wrong, the whole thing is ruined.
The reason I say “love your craft” is that a steadfast can-do attitude, even in the full awareness of all these obstacles, is absolutely essential to the practice of tutoring. If you fail to convince the student, or yourself, that you can lead them to success, then the student will pick up on that right away and it's going to be downhill from there, guaranteed. The successful tutor is an inexhaustible source of encouragement, helpfulness, and positive growth mindset.
Furthermore, a successful tutor is keenly aware when they are failing to build this relationship, or when they are not meeting all the student's needs for any reason. There will be some students for which you are simply not a good fit. It is essential to recognize this early, and bow out respectfully when it occurs. Learn your own strengths and weaknesses so that you can be always be operating in your sweet spot. This is the only way to really get noticed and to earn recommendations in your favor. For me, my sweet spot was grade 7+ math/science/programming students with self-motivation and on the high-performing side. I don't know what yours will be, but you will need to find it for yourself.
So, what are these “ineffable qualities” of a successful tutoring relationship that I keep referring to? Unfortunately, this is hard to describe — it's one of those “know it when you see it” kind of things, once you have enough experience. But here are a few of the key ingredients, from which it is rarely possible to deviate.
The tutor and student respect and trust one another.
The tutor is kind and compassionate with the student.
The student is holding the pencil about 90% of the time.
The student feels safe and empowered to ask questions, make mistakes, and ask for guidance.
The student is not constantly looking up at the tutor for validation.
The tutor is calm, patient, and allows a friendly silence in which the student can think and work.
The tutor is insanely attentive to the student's work, processing every detail of everything they may write or say, using this raw data either to develop new hypotheses about what specific skills this student needs help with, or to disconfirm old hypotheses. However, most of this attentiveness is not spoken aloud (see previous point). This is called Active Observation.
The tutor mostly uses questions to help the student. Probes are questions that may begin with “do you remember. . .” or “can you tell me. . .” and are intended to begin a conversation which jogs the student's memory and helps the tutor to identify knowledge gaps. Prompts are tiny hint-questions that model the thinking process and gently guide the student in the right direction.
The tutor's questions almost always help the student, rather than confuse them or derail them. This is thanks to the tutor’s Active Observation practice. The tutor is not merely guessing or making assumptions about what is confusing to the student.
Rarely, if ever, does the tutor give instructions to the student. When direct leadership is required, the tutor leads from the front by working through a carefully chosen example problem of their own design (not on the student's problem set), explaining their thinking out loud as they go, then encouraging the student with “okay, now you do one!” (or equivalent).
Rarely, if ever, does the tutor directly answer the question “what do I do now?” or “is this right?” There are a multitude of ways to respond to these, including an honest “what do you think?”, or a carefully chosen probe or prompt, or even a simple shrug. Eventually the student learns to ask more specific and purposeful questions.
As you can see, tutoring is a highly skilled activity. You are part teacher, part counselor, part detective, part interactive encyclopedia. If you're just getting started with tutoring, the first thing you will need is a deliberate plan to train yourself in these skills.
I started by working at a tutoring center at a community college. If you're lucky like I was, you can find one with a good tutor training program that will help you build these skills. Even without any initial network, you could still make cold calls to community colleges, expressing your desire to work at their tutoring center/help center and to become a better tutor. Ask specific questions about how tutors are trained, to help you make your decision and to prove your enthusiasm. The pay won't be great, but you have to start somewhere and the training and experience will be invaluable to your future career.
Once you've built up a decent baseline of skill and want to start out on your own, I would recommend a tutor-matching website such as WyzAnt, or I've also heard good things about Nextdoor (though I haven't used it myself). Make sure you write a great profile for yourself that higlights your tutoring style, experience, and education. If you set a modest rate, you should be able to start finding gigs. With patience, you can gradually begin to shift more of your hours into private lessons and gradually increase your rate.
Now, if you can get this far, congratulations! However, there are some cons to tutoring as well.
You'll be doing a ton of driving.
You won't be able to work much during school hours (so you'll probably still need another part time job like I did).
You'll basically be forced to make a choice between tutoring primarily rich kids, or being poor yourself.
You are a salesman. Your product is your lessons.
For me, it was really the last one that did me in. Unfortunately, I'm not a great salesman. I was primarily relying on word-of-mouth recommendations to grow my business, but a good salesman knows how to give that sort of thing a good nudge in their favor. I simply couldn't be bothered, and that pretty much put some firm clamps on my long term success and ended with me choosing a different career path. Maybe someone else can advise you on the salesmanship aspects of tutoring, since that's the part I struggled with the most.
Good luck!
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