Does my child need a tutor?

“Does my child need a tutor?” is the most common question we get asked at Fledge. There are, in fact, a whole host of reasons why your child may benefit from working with a tutor. Tutoring can help strengthen subject comprehension, boost your child’s confidence, and build important study skills. 

Here are 5 of the most common ways to know that your child may need extra help.

Your child lacks self-belief

Confidence is the number one reason why parents opt for extra tuition. Without confidence and self-belief students find it hard to progress in lessons and believe that they are making progress. For this reason, a tutor can be invaluable in not only giving positive reinforcement but also helping you to understand why your child may feel this way.

You child is confused/bored in class 

If a method or concept isn’t understood correctly from the beginning, it can be hard to catch up as lessons progress. If your child is saying, they don’t understand a subject or hate a topic or feel frustrated/bored in X lesson; the chances are they need extra help. The right tutor can identify topic weaknesses are and help your child to catch up. If they aren’t being challenged enough and have become disengaged a tutor can help them to see the subject in a new and exciting way.

Your child needs exam and revision help

Many students go to pieces in exams because they don’t have an exam technique and haven’t been taught to revise in a way that makes sense to them. A tutor can help with both of these areas, working through past-examination papers, explaining what examiners want to see from students and showing students how to revise proactively.

Your child is afraid of failing

Fear of being wrong and fear of failure can stop your child progressing in a variety of ways, especially in a large class. Working in smaller groups with a tutor can help them find their voice and the courage to participate in lessons without giving in to their fear.

Your child’s grades have dropped

Falling grades is another reason why parents opt for a tutor. To determine what’s happening pay special attention to your children’s comfort with homework, and the graded tests they bring home. A good tutor will help you to identify the issues and work with your child. The rule of thumb is to hope for a one- to two-grade improvement in one academic year. 

Our online group-learning model has been created to help every student, access private tuition no matter where they live. Our students are placed in same-ability sets of three and share the cost of the tuition fees evenly amongst their group. So tuition that usually costs £35 an hour can now be as low as £10 an hour.