A great number of parents who call TeamUP! Tutors are riddled with guilt. “If only I had called you sooner” is their constant refrain. But how is a parent supposed to know when it’s time to call-in the pros?
The education experts at GreatSchools.net encourage parents to catch the problem early. “The most compelling reason to [...]

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All parents can relate to the difficulty of tutoring ones own kids. A couple of reasons for the challenge together with some ideas of how to improve make it worth checking out Why Parents Don’t Make Great Tutors for Their Kids in the Wall Street Journal.
Most times when I try to teach my children something – [...]

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Peer tutoring can benefit tutor and student, but more often it is of benefit to neither. Some of the reasons include:

tutor knows material, but can’t teach it
tutor lacks maturity to work with peer
student uncomfortable working with peer tutor
peers are friends; don’t focus on subject.

In San Diego, the school board declined to approve a class in which [...]

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A study presented by the National Association of Independent Schools explores The Tutoring Phenomenon and many of its implications. The survey at Browne & Nichols School (BB&N), a pre-K to 12 school in Cambridge, Massachusetts known for its academic excellence, established tutoring prevalence, time spent with tutors, subjects for which tutoring was received, and reasons [...]

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When my son was entering kindergarten, and his playmates could not understand him, my spouse and I decided speech therapy was worth a try. The group our child joined included three other youngsters. Since he never missed a session, but made no progress after six weeks, I asked to sit in the class. What I [...]

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Don’t get tutoring help… until you set clear expectations and goals.
That pretty much sums up the focus of our article, How to Make Tutoring Specific, Measurable and Actionable. Since so many tutoring programs sound good in theory, but fall far short in reality, we strongly recommend parents and students start by clarifying exactly what tutoring [...]

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Our latest article, Smart Goal Setting, explains the importance of identifying specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely goals prior to meeting with your tutor.
When you choose TeamUP! Tutors’ managed in-home tutoring program, we follow the SMART process to prepare a personalized “Student Success Plan” for your child and then closely monitor that his or her [...]

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With so many tutoring choices, how can a parent know which approach is best for their child?
If you’re considering in-home, online, center, peer, or any other type of tutoring, results-based research can help ease your confusion. In The Tutoring Revolution: Applying Research for Best Practices, Policy Implications, and Student Achievement researchers Edward E. Gordon, Ronald [...]

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I was astounded after reading a tutoring company’s faq where the question was, “I’ve never been a tutor before, is that ok?” The question was fine. It was the answer that set me reeling. It read, “Everyone has to start somewhere. If you are a good communicator and genuinely understand the material, you will do [...]

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When we began matching in-home tutors to families in 2004, we not only had to sell parents on TeamUP! Tutors, but also the value of having a tutor come into their home. Today, a paradigm shift has occurred; it seems every family is eager for a tutor to come to them.
Simply by doing what was [...]

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