What Does It Mean?

What does it mean to be a tutor? That's one of the questions you've got to be interested in, right? What is it that this guy is trying to do? It's simple. A tutor's job is to assist in the education and enabling of the student in his charge. Education is all about enabling. You don't tell students things, but teach them how to find out the things for themselves. If that sounds radically unlike the education system, then draw your own conclusions about the people in charge!

A tutor has to assess his new students, determine how he can help them to the best of his ability, go away and prepare the best custom plans for those students, and then join in a partnership with his charge to make progress toward their shared target. It may be as simple a plan as finding some really interesting books to read instead of whatever's on the curriculum or explaining just why algebra is important and relevant to real life, or as complicated as demonstrating just what the subjunctive tense in Spanish is supposed to convey. Sometimes all the student needs is lots more practice, and sometimes it's a fundamental rebuilding of what's only been taught piecemeal in school to day.

The important thing is that the student is at the centre of the whole experience, and your sole and most important job is to help them and instruct them in how to solve their own problems.

Today, my core word is 'enabling'.

O.