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Choosing the right private home tuition teacher
What are the 7 most important criteria to look for in a home tutor?
Be sure about what to look out for, before you engage a private tutor.
Read the following, even if you are very busy.
The information can definitely help you save some cash and time, and perhaps secure a tutor who can stay with you for the long haul.
1. Academic credentials
Years ago, Tuition In Singapore received feedback from parents that they want to be shown profiles of only university undergraduates, graduated tutors with PhD/Master’s/Bachelor’s, or IB tutors who had taught in IBDP schools.
They strongly prefer tutors with a qualifying criteria of a minimum of 2 years of tutoring experience in the same/closely-related subject that the tutors were giving home tuition in.
Since then, parents told us that tuition sessions proceeded smoothly, with the students’ grades starting to improve first by 5 marks, then by up to 30 marks.
These gains in marks were because the experienced and academically qualified tuition teachers were able to effectively value-add to the learning process, generate deeper and more interesting insights, and impart valuable study strategies when explaining content from the IBDP syllabus.
2. Familiarity with the latest curriculum, exam requirements and marking scheme
The International Baccalaureate syllabus has been revised many times over the years, and it is crucial that your home tutor is familiar with the current content and syllabus so that you are correctly prepared for your exams.
The IBDP sets unconventional questions at every exam.
This allows them to distinguish between students who are average or advanced.
Rote learning and repeated practice of past year exam questions are no longer effective.
When your tutor uses a wide range of question types for you to practice on, you will be better equipped to handle questions that require sophisticated analytical skills and also content mastery.
Notes provided by lecturers in school are usually of high quality.
Top students rely on them – and particularly, the notes that they themselves meticulously had researched and compiled.
Questions in the IBDP exams increasingly require outstanding application skills.
It is never enough to just understand and remember whatever is in your notes, because exam questions will ask you how to solve novel problems.
Private tutors from Tuition In Singapore have significant depth and breadth in steering their students to weave critical analysis with all the substantial information that the student has learnt, to enable the answers to score as close to maximum marks as possible.
3. Cost vs. quality & commitment
Balancing the cost of hiring a tutor against his/her reliability and academic quality is always tricky.
Finding the “cheapest” tutor around may not be as marvelous a bargain as you might think.
Sometimes, tutors charge low rates out of compassion for their financially-needy students – and we are proud of these dedicated and passionate tutors.
Typically, tutors quote rates based on their academic qualifications, number of years of experience, and consistent ability to help their students’ grades improve.
Their hourly rates are usually based on what other parents are currently paying them.
If the student is living in a location that is difficult to access through public transport (eg landed property, Sentosa), parents might add another say $10 on top of the regular hourly rate.
We can easily identify tutors with high levels of determination and commitment from all of the extras that they invest in their students: they don’t mind leaving later than the scheduled lesson period; they plan their lessons well and deliver lessons enthusiastically; they try different methods of teaching to engage unmotivated students; they prepare special sets of notes in their free time for students who need them; they give regular feedback to parents on the progress of their children; and they advise parents on next steps that will help their children.
4. Experience
The rich experience of a seasoned tutor enables him/her to immediately spot the precise problems in students that is causing them to lose valuable marks in their homework, tests and weighted assessments.
They can then immediately administer the most effective corrective remedy, so that the student can understand what not to do – as well as know when to use the correct answering methods.
Experienced tutors better understand the question pattern asked in the exams, and can formulate appropriate strategies that can work for the student.
5. Logical and detailed explanations
Professional home tutors are aware of the common mistakes made by students who have not been able to properly understand the comprehensive and detailed content that was being taught in school.
The school workload is heavy, and the pace is very fast.
Students are required to grasp the knowledge within 2 to 4 years, and to take ownership of their education.
Many students would often find themselves with little or no time for completion of tutorials and/or revisions.
The current school programmes are geared towards a balance of content-mining, and writing and analytical skills.
What will help students to secure a 7 is always logic, not content.
Private tutors from Tuition In Singapore therefore give clear and thorough explanations of the foundational content.
We will then transition the student to acquire and enhance their application skills.
All of this is done at the pace that the student is comfortable with, and the content progresses only after the student has understood and sufficiently learned the fundamental modules.
6. Punctuality and discipline
Your child must build good study habits.
If the home tutor has slack habits about arrival time, is easily distracted, or frequently postpones lessons, the student may become casual about his studies.
A disciplined and punctual home tutor helps the child to cultivate these same traits.
7. Compatibility with the student
Many parents overlook the importance of communication between the student and the private tuition teacher.
This is one of the most crucial factors to consider when you want to hire a home tutor.
Your child should communicate with the home tutor about the chapters that she is most worried about, so that the tutor knows the areas he can help with.
An approachable and encouraging tutor can make learning enjoyable, rewarding, and fulfilling.
Get the best deals when hiring an experienced IB private tuition teacher
Three easy ways to ensure successful grade improvement:
Reduce tutoring requirements
The availability of tutors and their qualifications affect tuition costs.
The more requirements you have, the harder it is to find a tutor who will respond to your assignment.
The usual specifications include things like gender, a mix of subjects, a budget, a schedule, etc.
You should shortlist the requirements that are most crucial to you.
For instance, if you only want female tuition teachers, your options are cut in half.
It is also a good idea to hire two different tutors to teach two distinct subjects, even if they themselves scored As in both of the subjects you require tuition for.
This is because most tuition teachers are really skilled at teaching just one subject.
Major national exams
Higher hourly fees are often quoted by tutors who specialize in or have extensive experience teaching students preparing for the high-stakes PSLE, SEC, GCE O Levels, GCE A Levels, and the IBDP.
This is because there has to be a lot of work put into exam preparation, material revision, and, if necessary, getting the student to unlearn study habits that have been resulting in poor grades in past years.
Good tutors typically avoid teaching graduating-year students after the March holidays since they will need to rush and intensely cram a lot of material within a short period of time in order to appropriately prepare the student.
Parents therefore prefer to choose a dependable private tuition teacher at least a year before the important IBDP.
Budget
We encourage our clients to be realistic with the tuition budget that they would like to work within.
The hourly tuition rates are neither regulated nor changed by Tuition In Singapore.
Tutors with proven track records that consistently deliver a 7, tuition teachers with many years of experience, and MOE/international school teachers are already accepting assignments within a certain hourly rate.
These tutors are unlikely to accept prices that are lower their existing rates due to the constant high demand for their services and waiting lists.
Difficult exam questions - why it's happening
More and more students are able to correctly answer increasingly harder questions year after year.
You are likely to have come across questions that were much easier in the Ten Year Series than what students from other top schools are required to answer in their exams in recent months.
Because so many students are able to answer challenging questions, the creators of exams at schools/IBDP are forced to include increasingly more difficult questions in order to distinguish between the top and the average students in each cohort.
As a result, when it is your turn to take the exam, the questions will be substantially harder.
In a way, it’s a vicious circle.
Parents want to hire qualified private tutors to better prepare their children to compete against their peers since everyone is concerned that the exam questions will be more complex when it is their turn to take the exam. The students work harder in class and during tuition, and succeed in getting good grades.
Because the students were so well-prepared and achieve good results for the exams, the exam papers and results are then scrutinized.
After the exam papers and results are analyzed, it is determined that the questions are too simple because the students were so well-prepared and, on the whole, received decent grades as a result of hiring competent home tutors.
This then makes it necessary that the questions for the following year be increasingly harder in order for the exams to be able to distinguish who should get A’s or B’s.
And this makes it much more important for parents to hire effective private tutors in order for their children to catch up sufficiently.
Parents will do all in their power (as loving parents) to give their children that competitive edge because the goal is to do better than the other person rather than just to obtain a specific grade.
Also, it’s not just about keeping up with other students with better grades, but also to make sure their children don’t feel “stupid’’ or “left out’’ and end up really hating the subject just because others are so good at it.
For many students, the most effective confidence builders are good grades.
Get a private teacher who can focus on your child’s areas of weakness.
Encourage your child not to fall behind. It’s is crucial for their future.
Hire qualified, experienced IB private tuition teachers to swiftly improve your grades. Guaranteed.
Over 70% of our clients are repeats (for different subjects/levels/children) or referrals. Because we always deliver excellent results. Since 2010.
Engage good, experienced IB private tuition teachers - The Tuition In Singapore Leadership Team
Olivia Chan
Academic Director,
Tuition In Singapore
King’s College,
Cambridge University (Mathematical Sciences/Applied Mathematics, PhD)
Edward Chong
Head of Math & The Sciences,
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National University of Singapore,
(Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics)
Stephanie Lim
Head of Languages & The Humanities, Tuition In Singapore
Nanyang Technological University-National Institute of Education
Ng Tian Yi
Director of Administration,
Tuition In Singapore
Singapore Management University,
Master of Business Administration
Every year, students rely on Tuition In Singapore because we help them, their siblings, and their friends get better grades.
What sets us apart from other tutor services is our ability to carefully and professionally match you with the experienced IB private tuition teacher who can guide you to obtaining a 7.
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