Matching is a key skill of a great tutoring company. An effective tutoring director has a knack for making the right student-tutor matches (usually based on years of experiences making successful matches and, yes, some bad matches along the way). A skilled director will always consider the following when making a match:
- Aside from the obvious need to match the student’s subject need with the tutor’s subject-teaching ability, the teaching style must be matched correctly. Some tutors are great verbally, others are excellent visual demonstrators; some are fast-paced teachers, others move slowly and deliberately; some are high energy and talkative, others are…well, you get the point.
- The student’s personality must be matched to the right tutor personality. For this reason, social intelligence and understanding the pre-adult psyche is a critical skill of a tutoring company director. True improvement almost always goes hand-in-hand with the a terrific student-tutor relationship—the student has to respect the tutor as a mentor and role model while also being able to connect with the tutor based on common interests and humor. If the student isn’t looking forward to the tutor coming over for a session, academic improvement will be difficult to achieve, especially something as delicate as SAT tutoring.
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