Timeline for How do I filter out bad students from tutoring?
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| Nov 20, 2020 at 12:29 | answer | added | penelope | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 19, 2020 at 2:01 | answer | added | Ben | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 4, 2017 at 23:59 | answer | added | user7868 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 4, 2017 at 19:02 | comment | added | user78960 | @Greg there's a difference between a bad student and a student doing poorly. Tutoring is for students doing poorly, which MAY INCLUDE bad students. But i think of bad students as people who would rather cheat or otherwise take the easy route, but not necessarily take the time to practice and learn. Students doing poorly just don't understand concepts or got behind or something. | |
| Nov 4, 2017 at 18:10 | comment | added | Greg | I thought the whole point of tutoring is to help bad students | |
| Nov 3, 2017 at 23:18 | answer | added | Todd Wilcox | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 3, 2017 at 22:25 | answer | added | Joseph Sabido | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 3, 2017 at 17:58 | comment | added | Joren Vaes | I also did quite a bit of tutoring myself as well as needed a tutor in my first years of my bachelors. The reason I needed tutoring was because I never had to study before and didn't know what hit me. After one and a half years of intense tutoring help I was caught up with the rest of my class and have been getting high scores since then. To the OP: tests only work when you specifically want to help those who can study but have trouble in a field. If you want to help people who need to learn how to study, using entry tests will be useless. | |
| Nov 3, 2017 at 14:57 | comment | added | anon | FWIW, I'm a shitty student. I went to a tutor for one of my classes completely unprepared and having never studied. You know why? Because the professor was genuinely so bad that I couldn't figure out what the subject contained. I had to ask my dad, and that only worked because he happens to have a degree in it; even then, the professor just flat-out refused to explain anything except how her fishing trip last weekend went or whatever. Please keep in mind people like me -- not every bad student is bad on purpose or inevitably. | |
| Nov 3, 2017 at 13:19 | comment | added | Mindwin Remember Monica | @EdmundReed I did tutoring of undergrad students for a decade. Since I was getting a CS teaching degree, those undergrad students that were too hard to teach soon became my guinea pigs for alternative teaching methods. Some cases I even brought to discuss with faculty on how to make the knowledge get inside their heads without breaking any skull bones. So it is not a matter if it is a worthwhile use of their time, it is a matter if one is making their best to make that time worthwhile. | |
| Nov 3, 2017 at 9:07 | comment | added | Mirek Długosz | It's easy. Students who actually study, come prepared and are motivated to learn the topic most likely don't need tutoring in addition to education they receive at school. Just ask why student needs tutoring and if the answer is "to catch up with material at classes", then you don't want this student. But be aware that you are severely limiting you work opportunities this way. | |
| Nov 3, 2017 at 1:22 | answer | added | Pieter Geerkens | timeline score: 25 | |
| Nov 2, 2017 at 23:23 | comment | added | Polygnome | Its just contract work. If you are not getting compensated enough to put up with a difficult client and are financially stable enough to afford it, just drop the client.I'd make that into an answer, but the existing ones aren't that different from it. | |
| Nov 2, 2017 at 22:39 | comment | added | G Tony Jacobs | Yes, that’s obvious. Guess I was too indirect, but I haven’t got time to unpack it all right now. 😐 | |
| Nov 2, 2017 at 22:37 | comment | added | ESR | @GTonyJacobs not true - the fact that OP is getting paid does not inherently make it a worthwhile use of their time. | |
| Nov 2, 2017 at 21:59 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/926207083627864071 | ||
| Nov 2, 2017 at 20:58 | comment | added | G Tony Jacobs | “It’s a waste of my time...” Not if you’re getting paid by the hour, it isn’t. | |
| Nov 2, 2017 at 19:59 | answer | added | David | timeline score: 30 | |
| Nov 2, 2017 at 18:10 | answer | added | svavil | timeline score: 38 | |
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| Nov 2, 2017 at 17:51 | history | asked | user82358 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |