5 things to keep in mind while hiring a home tutor

Hiring a tutor for your kid is as important as choosing your career. Missing out on minor details will cost huge. So read through this blog to find a few notions where you need to follow the details meticulously.

1. Verification

Verify the persons’ ID proofs. Blindly appointing a person to tutor your kid in your absence can be the insane thing you can ever do. No one can argue when I say the safety of a child is more important than anything. Hence never take a chance. Verify and appoint, not appoint and verify.

2. Experience

Check out the persons’ past experience as a tutor. This gives you a wide perspective on the persons’ ability to bring the best out of your child. Make sure the tutors’ subject knowledge is at its peak. You can check this via the persons’ certificates or other educational documents. Asking them to conduct free demo classes for your child will also help you understand the teaching methodology of the tutor.

3. Growth mindset

A person with a growth mindset will always find a way to grow. They can never dwell through setbacks. ‘If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve’. As a tutor for your kid, you need someone who will encourage your kid and help them grow and not spoon-feed them. And a person with a growth mindset is the right person to do that. Make sure the person you hire does not possess a fixed mindset who will settle for what is been given to them. The emphasis on this particular topic is necessary because you are influenced by the people around you.

4. Personality and attitude

This here is a broad spectrum. This includes the persons’ self-discipline, punctuality, time management skills, adaptability, compatibility, honesty & integrity, flexibility to name a few. This will not be revealed on the first go. It is a slow process. But a few qualities like punctuality and time management skills can be assessed at the first meet. If that is satisfying, slowly analyze their behavior. Your responsibility as a kid does not end right after hiring the tutor.

5. Teaching strategies

As a tutor, he/she should be well aware of the subject and everyday happenings. In addition to that, to make a child fall in love with learning there need to be an intriguing way of putting things together. It is one of the most essential qualities for a successful tutor. As a parent, you need to ask them this question about their teaching strategies.