Helping your child to succeed often need some extra tutoring, but hiring a tutor is often confusing and hard to make decision. Before hiring a tutor, you should ask potential tutor a series of the following questions and see if they fit to you and your kids need. By asking all questions upfront you can make informed decisions and also helps tutors to understand you expectation.
- How long you have been tutoring? How many students you have worked with and what is the age group?
- Do you have expertise in subject matter where my child is looking for tutoring?
- What is your availability? How long is your commitment for this tutoring service?
- Can I see your education or certification credentials?
- Can I see your complete resume?
- Do you have online profile to see the review?
- Can you provide me reference from current and past students? Can you provide any professional reference?
- What is your basic tutoring plan? How you will do assessment on my child improvement
- How frequently assessment will be done?
- If my child has questions between sessions, how can they contact you? How soon you will get back to the questions?
- What kind of results can I expect to see, and what happens if my child doesn’t make progress?
- Have you worked with students in a similar situation as my child?
- What is your teaching style? Can you teach my child small portion of subject, so that I can see your approach, information delivery and see if my child understand?
- How much each session cost? What if child not able to attend a classes? Is there any miscellaneous fees?
- Can I cancel the tutoring session anytime?
- Do you expect payment after each session or one payment at the end of each month? Do you accept PayPal, credit care, and check?
- What if you are sick and not able to provide class? Will there be any makeup session?
- How many students will be in the session? Will new students will be added?
- if more students are added, what will be the price for each session?
- What should my child bring for class and what will be provided?
- Where will be tutoring location?
- Will you be able to discuss with my child teacher if needed?
- Have you ever been convicted or involved in job related misdemeanor?
- How can we as a parents be helpful in the tutoring process?
- How will you communicate with me and how frequently?
- How long each tutoring sessions?
- If I want to run third party background check on you, will you provide all needed information?
There are plenty of questions that you can ask tutors. Make informed decision before hiring tutors and follow your instinct. It is at most important to call all references on feed back, read reviews from online profiles, Google their social media presence, check with friends and families on tutor, check with office colleagues and run third party background check.