Starting out with Private Tutoring At Home can be an overwhelming move which may leave you feeling less confident of your skills and experience. However, as with most new experiences, there is the need to position yourself strategically to ensure that you fit into the role as easily as possible. While being properly prepared to teach is a good start to making the first impression, it makes for a great learning addition to also know your student well enough. Knowing your student allows you to build a great rapport with them while also boosting the effectiveness of each teaching session.

Whether you have a daily scheduled appointment or an occasional appointment with the student, there is the need to put in work to getting to know your students better.

Below are some of the strategies which can be employed to ensure that you make the best out of each teaching session. These and more tutoring and learning tips and tricks can be found at PrivateTutoringAtHome.com.

Embrace the 3 F's: Friendly, Fair and Flexible

As simple as this strategy can be, being friendly to your student can go a long way in creating an enabling environment for them to better learn what you are teaching. Creating a friendly environment not only makes you accessible and the student feel at ease with you, it at the same time ensures that the student is able to relax while being responsive and being able to raise major concerns regarding what is being taught. In a large class, being friendly should however not be confused for establishing preferences to any particular student.

However, as much as you are friendly to the student(s) be sure to establish order in the class as this ensures that they remain focused in the relaxed environment. Be sure to establish the certain rules and standards which students have to adhere to and take seriously. In addition to this, it is important to establish firm guidelines with regards to some of the most important learning materials, homework and assignments.

Engage the Whole Class

One of the best ways to ensure that you are effectively passing the message needed across is to engage the whole class. Whether a class of one or many, be sure to place your focus on carrying the class along on all activities to ensure that no one is distracted or side tracked. Should you be handling a single student, avoid focusing too much attention on the student such that they feel overwhelmed and intimidated. Instead, ensure that they are gradually introduced to new concepts while giving them ample time to digest information passed across.

Know Students' Names

One of the best ways to ensure that students get personalized teaching attention is by knowing their names, irrespective of the class size, knowing the names of students allows you engage them during class sessions to call their attention to certain issues. While this may be difficult in some cases, making a proper note to practice the names of the students or having them introduce themselves by name before making comments in class allows you learn the names over a short time period.

Require Students to Make an Appointment at the Start of the Year

While this may seem unnecessary, having a one on one meeting with your student at the start of the year to make academic plans serves a number of purposes including encouragement of the student to work towards goal actualization.