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Page 1 of 2 Tutoring can help enhance your child’s performance at school. However, choosing the tutoring service that’s right for your child can sometimes prove a little challenging. It is essential that parents do some research beforehand.
Tutoring can help enhance your child’s performance at school. However, choosing the tutoring service that’s right for your child can sometimes prove a little challenging. It is essential that parents do some research beforehand.
Questions to ask
Parents should think carefully before signing up and/or paying for any tutoring service, no matter how good it sounds. Asking a range of questions about the service is a good way to help you decide if it is the right service for you and your child:
● How long has the tutoring service been in business?
● Does the service belong to a relevant industry association with an enforceable code of conduct eg. the Australian Tutoring Association?
● Can the service give you the name of any other parents that you can talk to about the quality of its tutoring services?
● Have the tutors been interviewed face‑to-face by the tutoring service?
● What are the qualifications and experience of the tutor who will be tutoring your child?
● Are the tutors trained specifically in the subject area in which they are tutoring?
● Is the form of proposed tutoring relevant to the NSW Education course requirements?
● Have reference checks been conducted on the tutors?
● Have relevant child protection screenings been performed on the tutors?
● If the tutoring service is at a specific location is there an opportunity to visit the location?
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