Based on my experience, I believe tutoring goes beyond the instructional role to supplement class-room teaching in three ways:
Empathic: Face-to-face or personalized tutoring is intended to be remedial in nature. At times, the lack of understanding of some fundamental concepts from the prior years causes difficulty for the student. The tutor…
Yes very happy with Phoebe she is a wonderful tutor & very pleasant towards my girls they feel at ease with her as she explains all maths concepts in the simplest of forms (much to the delight. of my daughter Phoebe who said she's learned/understood a lot more in the last three weeks than she had learned all of last year) & she's building up their confidence to have a more positive outlook when approaching their maths homework!
I just got back from the US this morning we are very happy with Rhett and Connor has really clicked with him and his teaching methods.
Under Rhetts tutoring Connor managed to go from a fail to a C+ 65% on his resit after only two sessions with Rhett so a great achievement if we had the ability to have more sessions with Rhett we would happily take them.
So far Katie has been prompt, personable and prepared.
As you say it is very early days -we are only just getting to the point where we are clear on where she is at and where she needs to be.