Private Tutoring is not Always the Best

Are Private Tutoring Sessions Always the Best Choice?

Private tutoring may seem like the ideal solution, but it’s not always the most effective. Explore all your options before deciding what’s best!

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Private tutoring sessions. Are they always the best idea? Not always.

This is Jason Ursino from Learning Space and I'm driving to school

Before I start, just a quick shout out to the year 11, 12 kids in the yard that see me with this yellow shirt on and call out Very funny boys.

But today, I'm just gonna be talking about private tutoring sessions. So private tutoring sessions, whenever I get an inquiry for tutoring, one of the very first things a lot of people say is, what do you offer in terms of private sessions?

I want 1 to 1 private sessions. Under the assumption that that is the best thing for their son or daughter, there are some major disadvantages with private sessions.

One huge disadvantage is that it can be very isolating for the student and it hurts the motivation.

When a student is there on their own with a tutor, you might find that they're not very motivated, they don't enjoy it, and it's not very productive. If you've been doing tutoring for a little while and you've gone from tutor to tutor and they're private sessions and you find that it's not working, this could be the reason mainly because the student is on their own and they don't feel like that it's it's very motivating, it's not very interesting to be on your own and being giving instructions on how to do particular concepts or being taught how to do certain things, but on their on their own it it can be difficult. It's kind of like being at the gym. If you go to the gym and there's people around you working out, having similar goals to you, then it's a little bit more motivating.

They could be doing completely different things. They could be at different levels, but the fact that they're there and you're there in this environment, it's a lot more motivating than trying to do this workout in your garage downstairs on your own. So it's that sort of analogy. Group sessions are good because they have that learning environment. However, they need to be conducted well.

You wanna make sure still that the tutoring sessions complement nicely with what's happening at school. If it's a group session where they're doing something completely different to what they're doing at school, it's not gonna be a very good model.

So when you're thinking about tutoring, just look at all the options, private sessions, group sessions, or hybrid, or both, and have a think about all the different options and the different avenues because private sessions is not always the best option.