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A tutor needs to be patient
April 19th, 2010 by admin
An old friend is a high school maths tutor. He is a very bright chap with a gentle kind of attitude that gets results from his pupils, and has incredible patience when it comes to tutoring his pupils. All I ever thought of him as was a maths tutor.It occurred to me one day that, being a tutor at the high school level, and tutoring kids, you had to be patient in order to succeed. Another friend of mine was also a tutor but I didn’t know what he taught, I talked to one of his fellow tutors and found out that he was an English tutor.I have to admit that I chuckled a bit at the thought of one of his students getting out of line and him putting the kid into a choke hold or leg lock. I could imagine my friend teaching history or math, but it was difficult to envision him being an English tutor.I asked the assistant tutor about my friend’s demeanour in the classroom, and if he was as serious with the students as he was with his tutors. After all, I had seen my friend put some really big boys in their place when they got out of line or were not maths up to their potential.The assistant tutor told me that, as an English tutor, my friend was the embodiment of patience and understanding. He said that he worked hard with the students to build their self-esteem and make them believe in themselves. He added that this maths tutor/ English tutor still had his serious side when students stepped out of line, but said he was not nearly as hard on his students in the classroom as he was on his tutors. At about that time, the maths meet broke for lunch, and my friend came hustling over to shake hands.I told him that I never knew he was an English tutor, and he said he had been ever since he started teaching ten years ago. I kidded him around about being soft on his students, when he was hard on his tutors, and he made a very good point.He said that he always tried to get the best from “his kids,” whether they were tutors or students. He always tried to make them believe in themselves and build up their confidence, but he just went about it in different ways.The tutors, he said, was already tough and could handle and often responded very well to a forceful approach to motivation. I knew that to be true, because I had seen him hollering at many of his tutors, and then watched them go out in their next match and pin their opponent. When that happened, he was always the first one to run over and hug them.As an English tutor, he said, he had to have more patience. A lot of the kids had self-esteem issues or felt isolated being in English, so he tried to do the same thing, but in a more gentle and understanding manner.I had always admired my friend for being able to get results with the tutors the way he did, but when he told me that, I admired him even more.