Tutoring Brings Out The Best In Both The Tutor & The Tutee

By May Anne Sweep


Tutoring is really a rewarding job. Any teacher who has already experienced it would attest to that fact. A tutor challenges the student's mind as the latter strives to perform better than ever. The tutor also motivates the student to aim higher in order to achieve greater rewards. Furthermore, the tutor constantly finds ways to pique the interest of the student so that he or she can possibly form questions about things and seek to find the answers to them in order to satisfy his or her quest for knowledge.

Tutoring is a calling much more than it is a simple profession. A tutor has a unique ability to empower a student to realise his or her full potential. As a mentor, the tutor remains patient when everyone has given up. He or she remains strong particularly when the student fails and is disheartened. A tutor encourages the student to rise above failure then head toward the road to success.

But even when tutors are expected to inspire, let's not forget that they are human. These people also confess that there are times when they feel incompetent. They are similarly confronted by their own insecurities and reminded of their own weaknesses. They also question their suitability for this role and they aren't always as confident as they seem to be.

Nonetheless, the tutor deals with these issues just like a tutee cope with failures. Both of them try hard to not lose sight of the goal. As setbacks are part of learning, these people focus on their strengths instead since those are the things that can possibly help them attain what they set out to achieve.

All things told, a tutor cannot let weaknesses prevent him or her from helping a tutee succeed. The tutor is expected to see a student through in the first place. It goes without saying that this student counts on him or her. The tutor knows that he or she can't let this tutee down, specially not when the cause is the former's insecurities.




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