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Working as a Part Time Tuition Teacher, Tips, tricks, payment, experience
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TimeLesss
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 Jun 1 2015, 12:50 AM
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Was a part time tutor at a local tuition center, Was fun for the first few weeks but things started to change once i found out that most of the old 'experienced' tutors including the principal or owner of the tuition center are bunch of money suckers. The only thing they care about is money and not their students.
They read out what is in the textbook or reference book then ask the students to do exercise and pass up on the spot, while the students are trying out the questions, they just sit there staring at their phone instead of walking around guiding those who are facing difficulties in solving the questions. worst of all, there are little to no explanation, answers are given without any explanation.
Most of my students who attended their class say that they learn nothing at all. the principal even ask me to speed up and avoid unnecessary explanation as they need to catch up with the syllabus. those old tutors tried to drive me out of the tuition center when they found out that i was teaching those students the subjects that was assigned to them and not me( i did that bcuz the students ask me to teach them as they have learned nth from those tutors). I was called a inexperience, useless, busybody teacher in front of my students by those tutors.
TL;DR
Overall experience is somewhere between good and bad, pay was fine and i get to see for myself how rotten educational institutions & so called tutors/teachers works.
This post has been edited by TimeLesss: Jun 1 2015, 12:55 AM
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TimeLesss
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Jun 1 2015, 08:46 PM
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QUOTE(Gloopal @ Jun 1 2015, 05:17 PM) @TimeLess- That's a particularly awful experience that you've had- but I do suppose that it isn't an uncommon one in Malaysia. These tuition centres that you've just described seem to care about 2 things: fitting as many students as they can in one class, and charging as much as they can for those classes. This really is a sad situation- as these students signed up for private tuition to escape the poor education experience that they were faced with in some of their conventional schools. How long did you last in that centre? Are they still in business? For all of you out there, who run a tuition centre, how do you cope with the pressures of running a tuition centre? 3 months, yeap still in business |
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TimeLesss
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Jun 2 2015, 01:02 PM
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QUOTE(OMG! @ Jun 2 2015, 08:58 AM) These 'old' with bad attitudes tutors are the black sheep in the tuition center. The boss/owner should have phased them out. Keeping them will lead to education become more rotten.  I believe not all of the old experienced tutors behaves this way, some behaves due to part of the reason could be: 1. Becomes too bored already with teaching for XX years, and can't seem improvements in their students, hence demotivated. 2. Old age / Lack of Energy 3. Attitude problems (Being irresponsible and treat teaching as passing time) Nowadays, the teaching profession are mostly dominated by the young, energetic bunch of people who holds the belief of ' Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world.' These people should be placed greater emphasis on changing the education platform. Example: TEACH FOR MALAYSIA +1 , well the owner also behaves the same way so i believe the good tutors will be the one who get sack/leave 1st instead of the bad ones. |
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