Tutoring

celiabwatson · June 2012

If you were looking for a tutor for your child, where would you look?

I ask because I'm a teacher and staying home right now until my kids are in school and I want to tutor to keep up my skills and make some money. But I'm having a hard time finding clients. Ideas?

littlemermaid · June 2012

At my children's school. A lot of our teachers tutor during the school year and in the summer for extra money and they put a notice in the school bulletin letting parents know what subjects they tutor. So I have always hired teachers from our school to tutor my children.

celiabwatson · June 2012

Every school I have ever taught at has not allowed advertising of tutoring services on school property. Also, the school I recently taught at was about a 30 min commute so it's hard for me to draw from those students because their parents are less likely to commute to me, and don't necessarily want me to commute to them. I did send out an email to them though.

I also have flyers up at the library and an ad on craigslist. I think once I get going then word of mouth will work, but I just can't seem to get the initial clients to start word of mouth.

littlemermaid · July 2012

-auntie-:
littlemermaid:

At my children's school. A lot of our teachers tutor during the school year and in the summer for extra money and they put a notice in the school bulletin letting parents know what subjects they tutor. So I have always hired teachers from our school to tutor my children.

I have only ever hired a teacher from DS's school once. JMHO, if my kid needs tutoring because he's struggling in a subject, then hiring the teacher who isn't getting the material across to DS during the school day isn't a clear path to success. More of what isn't working doesn't work better.

The one teacher I did hire bumped my dyslexic son an entire grade level in 6 weeks when he was assigned to her reading classin late April. She helped him catch up to grade level over the summer before we bridged him to public school.

DH sometimes tutors older kids, mostly college and the odd grad student. He gets most of his referals word of mouth. I see other teachers put flyers up in places like Starbucks, the community pool, etc.

The teacher I would hire was never their own teacher. I have always hired a teacher that specialized in the subject and it was from another grade.

KL777 · July 2012

Sylvan Learning Center. They hire teachers all the time.

neverblushed · July 2012

I am also a teacher who switched to tutoring when my kids were small. I let the guidance counselors, reading specialists/resource teachers, and colleagues at school know that I was going to start tutoring. At first, referrals were slow to come. So, I contacted a few tutors I knew who had tutored kids I'd taught. One of them said she had too much work and would be happy to send referrals on to me. The other was a speech-language pathologist who was looking for tutors for her SLP practice. I signed a contract with the SLP practice and tutored for them for 6 years. Once I had a few clients and the counselors knew I was actually tutoring, I began to get referrals from the school where I had taught.

Working for a speech-language practice was actually a pretty good deal. I didn't have to do any of the administrative work, and I didn't have to hustle for my own clients. I had as much work as I wanted. I was making $65/hour + $10 travel, if I went to the student's house. This is a little low for the area where I live (I was billed out at $90/hour, which is more typical) but I figured what I was giving up in hourly rate, I was recouping in time not spent on billing clients. It was worth it to me.

HTH!

neverblushed · July 2012

KL777:
Sylvan Learning Center. They hire teachers all the time.

They pay about $15/hour and work you like a dog. Huntington works in a similar manner.

Also, they'll hire practically anyone.

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