Tutor Checklist

If your tutor answers "NO" to any of the following questions,
you probably need to keep looking.

 

Staff Qualifications:

• Are all of your tutors state-certified teachers?
• Do your tutors have teaching experience in a public or private school?

 

Determining Your Student's Needs:

• Is an assessment given to pinpoint student skill gaps?
• Does the battery of tests focus on multiple skills such as vocabulary, comprehension, math concepts, math applications, etc.?

 

Individualized Program:

• Is an individualized tutoring program designed specifically for each student for each class?
• Is the tutoring program linked to the results of testing?

 

Personal Attention:

• Does the program offer a 1:1 student-to-teacher ratio?
• Will the student be working with a tutor face-to-face at all times?
• Does the program provide written progress reports?

 

Curriculum and Method of Instruction:

• Does your program offer as many as 20,000 different lesson plans?
• Is your curriculum published by national education publishers?
• Does your program include Phoenemic Awareness lessons?
• Will you make sure the student has mastered a skill before you move on the next skill?

 

Success Rate:

• Does your program achieve an average increase of one grade level equivalency (GLE) in ~40 hours of tutoring?

 

Motivation and Study Skills:

• Do you spend time each session working on study skills?
• Do you have an incentive program that will motivate the student?