<![CDATA[All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors]]>Hello all,


What are the factor would u consider when hiring a tutor other than the capability ?

Distance of the tutor home
Indiv vs group
Female or male
How the tutor’s students peformance?
Qualification

Do u believe in talking to the tutor and thus able to gauge how well the tutor can teach?

Thank you all.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/topic/48050/all-about-finding-amp-evaluating-tutorsRSS for NodeFri, 01 May 2026 00:03:52 GMTMon, 13 Dec 2010 00:26:20 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Thu, 05 Jun 2025 01:42:44 GMT]]>Parents, do pop in to share tips about how you’ve found good tutors for your kids!

My youngest is 14. We’ve hired tutors for mostly CL2, as well as for maths and science in the PSLE years.

For evaluating tutors: for us, it’s about the feedback that they give. Are tutors sensitive, to have certain conversations out of earshot? If they notice issues like carelessness, what’s the strategy for dealing with this? Do they just give practice papers week after week, or do they also retest?

For English tutors, we haven’t hired any, but I think the evaluating factors might be: how do they speak/text in casual/conversational situations, and what materials are they using? We’ve avoided model essay books 🙂

Hope to hear from others!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2144437https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2144437Thu, 05 Jun 2025 01:42:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:16:51 GMT]]>this might help anyone who is finding and evaluating tuition centres

https://skoopsg.com/parent-to-parent-guide-finding-the-right-educational-centre-for-your-kids/

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2141787https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2141787Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:16:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Fri, 16 Aug 2024 08:20:40 GMT]]>Finding the right tutor is crucial for academic success, but it’s just as important to have access to reliable University Assignment Help services. While a tutor can guide you through complex topics, our assignment help ensures that your work is polished, accurate, and meets academic standards. Whether you’re struggling with tight deadlines or challenging assignments, our service provides the expert assistance you need to excel in your university courses. Combine quality tutoring with our assignment help, and you’ll be set for success! 🌟📚 #UniversityAssignmentHelp #AcademicExcellence #StudySmart

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2137198https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2137198Fri, 16 Aug 2024 08:20:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Wed, 31 Jul 2024 05:58:33 GMT]]>@Jardawnnn hey parents, are there any telegram groups for this? Thank you

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2136670https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2136670Wed, 31 Jul 2024 05:58:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Thu, 10 Aug 2023 14:39:33 GMT]]>Hello,


I would like to ask if there are any telegram/whatsapp groups/channels which parents use to recommend private tutors? Tks!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2116039https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2116039Thu, 10 Aug 2023 14:39:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Tue, 14 Mar 2023 04:07:25 GMT]]>just remember one man meat another man poison


important is your kid do enjoy and understand his or her lesson with the tutor. ex-MOE or wat HOD does not matter imo

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2100977https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2100977Tue, 14 Mar 2023 04:07:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:29:14 GMT]]>Hello parents, may I know what are your unmet needs or frustrations when you are choosing a enrichment activity for your beloved children? We all know that they deserve nothing less than the best.


Please feel free to elaborate on the process(es) that you are currently going through to select/filter a suitable teacher/center and other possible considerations that I might have left out as well!

Cheers and thanks in advance! :xedfingers:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2097867https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2097867Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:29:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:24:10 GMT]]>

san20sg\" post_id=\"2076306\" time=\"1658901987\" user_id=\"76391:

How do you evaluate a tutor if he is teaching well without waiting to wait for the tests or WA results?
Depending on how old is your child, you could ask him if he enjoys his lesson with this tutor, what does he learn during class, is it within the syllabus or extra stuff etc. I feel that if the rapport with the tutor has been built nicely, the child would learn well and will not resist work given.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2076380https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2076380Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:24:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Wed, 27 Jul 2022 06:06:27 GMT]]>How do you evaluate a tutor if he is teaching well without waiting to wait for the tests or WA results?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2076306https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2076306Wed, 27 Jul 2022 06:06:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Sun, 24 Jul 2022 07:20:13 GMT]]>Hi everyone, let me share with you my experiences about choosing the right tutor. I feel that it is important for your tutor to be able to cater to the different needs of the child. For example, some child may be more of a visual learner, hence it is important for your tutor to be able to draw or carry out their lessons or explanations in the form of drawings.


I also believe that the relationship between your tutor and child is important as a good relationship would most definitely make your child look forward to having lessons with him or her! My kids have been my following my tutor since 2019 and he is doing a good job. If you are looking for a tutor, u can pm me and I will be more than happy to share with you his contact details. Thanks!! 🙂

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2075885https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2075885Sun, 24 Jul 2022 07:20:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Thu, 21 Jul 2022 04:56:07 GMT]]>Would you please let us know the platform so that we can take a look? Thanks!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2075514https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/2075514Thu, 21 Jul 2022 04:56:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Fri, 27 Sep 2019 05:29:50 GMT]]>Hi parents and tutors!


Me and my team is currently building a platform, imagine it like linkedin for tutors, with professional profile page, in-web messaging, feed, and other interactive features. What do you think? We're currently in customer discovery phase. We want to make sure that what we're building is really what users need. Anyone is open up for discussion and willing to give feedback? We're also open for sharing. If you have any issues that probably we can translate into a feature that will help tutors and parents in general, please let us know 🙂 We're building this, for you!

If you're keen to have a discussion, please drop me a dm. Your opinion is valuable for us 🙂

Cheers!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1937758https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1937758Fri, 27 Sep 2019 05:29:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Tue, 24 Sep 2019 23:34:57 GMT]]>After reading some ‘horror’ stories, I am so glad that my daughter’s math tutor doesn’t give me those problems and is experienced and good in her teaching. What we parents want is just responsible tutors who can help our kids

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1936998https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1936998Tue, 24 Sep 2019 23:34:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Fri, 24 May 2019 14:58:09 GMT]]>Hi parents,


If you need help in looking for a home tutor, feel free to drop me a message at 91163640:)

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1911898https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1911898Fri, 24 May 2019 14:58:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Fri, 17 May 2019 12:43:07 GMT]]>By the way, this tutor is also specialized in English for primary & secondary. He helped my younger son move up his grades to an A for PSLE.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1910883https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1910883Fri, 17 May 2019 12:43:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Fri, 17 May 2019 12:35:11 GMT]]>I know of a tutor who is good with students with slower learners who need different learning approaches. His specialty is in English, Econs, business law, management, accounting & Statistics.


This tutor has helped my daughter who has been taking Diploma in Business Studies. She has not been performing well in Econs, Accounting & Business Law.

I must say he’s a god sent as I didn’t know he can teach a few subjects not just 1. Hence, when my daughter got problems with an assignment, this tutor could adjust and plan the schedule to cater more time on the assignment which was graded. He is extremely flexible and most importantly patient. My daughter is not easy to teach as well and doesn’t do well in Group tuition as she is a lot slower than others. So far, I must say he has really performed miracle for my daughter. I thought she’s going to fail a few subjects which she did in her first year and had to retake a few modules. She tried a few tutors and Group tuition without success. We were pretty desperate. My colleague told me about a tutor that has been coaching her son who is taking a degree in business admin. Her son too has been struggling with the assignments. He went from fail to a B. Her son started to read up more and was more motivated in his studies. I then decided to it a go and was so glad to get this tutor who coincidentally is trained in motivational skills and could tailor his teaching style according to the student’s learning style. I thought it will be useful for people to know that there are such tutors around…rare & cannot possibly find such dedicated tutor. I’m lucky to get him to coach my child. So, parents don’t give up hope on your child or keep sending the kids to the best enrichment classes with no results. You can whatsapp him at 97545328 to check for his available schedule & rates.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1910881https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1910881Fri, 17 May 2019 12:35:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Tue, 02 Apr 2019 01:42:13 GMT]]>We have really loved our experience at Star River Language School. Our daughter has flourished in the school. The exploratory play based learning suited her well. She has benefited from the international and diverse environment. Diane enjoyed going to school everyday and playing with her friends as well as learning from the teachers.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1904560https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1904560Tue, 02 Apr 2019 01:42:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:55:53 GMT]]>Hi,


Anybody has a good English tutor to recommend? Desperately looking for P4 & P2 English tutor, focusing more on Creative writing/compo & compre component as my P4 is quite weak in it. P2 just wana keep in pace, exposing her in Creative writing too. Hope anyone here can assist & prefer word of mouth recommendation as I have bad experiences wif a few tutors b4. Kindly pm me or reply here. Thanks!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1901579https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1901579Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:55:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Sun, 18 Nov 2018 08:30:40 GMT]]>

SFRLearning:
xueyan:

[quote=\"Lynn1967\"]Honestly, some tutors r very good in talking but cannot teach one. U ask a lot of qns they also promise tis n tat but in the end cant deliver. I dun mind paying higher for a gd one but they hv to make sure they can deliver mah.

Just to share, I always request to sit in for half an hour to listen to how the tutor teach. Although I cannot teach but I definitely can tell if a tutor can teach, haha!

Sit in? I wouldn't dare to suggest that. I am sure most tutors will not like to be watched by parents.
But if able to sit in, I am sure able to gauge whether tutor can teach.

I do not see anything wrong with parents sitting in for 1 or 2 lessons as long as the student himself/herself feel comfortable about it. As a tutor, he/she should be confident in their teaching and as long as the parents are not interrupting the lesson unnecessarily, there should not be any issue.[/quote]In my opinion this really depends on all 3 factors: child, tutor, parent, how each of them prefer. I don't see anything wrong either, but I believe that it's better to leave the tutor and child alone, because child will gain confidence this way and focus more on the tuition, and not focus on how his parent reacts if he didn't understand something immediately or if he makes any comments towards him.

I think it's best that the parent has a talk with kid before the tuition, but then to let tutor do his job alone, that's his job by the way isn't it?

Tutor shouldn't mind, but I know that one of my colleagues talk a lot while monitoring their children tasks, but then complain how tutor doesn't explain well, so I believe it's better for the kid especially that the tuition wasn't monitored.

I recently read one article related to this topic so you can check it out as well since you are interested:
https://www.noodle.com/articles/8-things-this-tutor-wants-to-tell-every-students-parents
https://smiletutor.sg/dont-make-these-6-singaporean-mistakes-in-your-childs-home-tuition/

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1884142https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1884142Sun, 18 Nov 2018 08:30:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Thu, 15 Nov 2018 08:10:54 GMT]]>Hi

Helping someone to look for Higher Malay tutor. Please PM your details and rates. Thanks.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1883676https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1883676Thu, 15 Nov 2018 08:10:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Thu, 15 Nov 2018 07:48:49 GMT]]>

xueyan:
Lynn1967:

Honestly, some tutors r very good in talking but cannot teach one. U ask a lot of qns they also promise tis n tat but in the end cant deliver. I dun mind paying higher for a gd one but they hv to make sure they can deliver mah.

Just to share, I always request to sit in for half an hour to listen to how the tutor teach. Although I cannot teach but I definitely can tell if a tutor can teach, haha!

Sit in? I wouldn't dare to suggest that. I am sure most tutors will not like to be watched by parents.
But if able to sit in, I am sure able to gauge whether tutor can teach.

I do not see anything wrong with parents sitting in for 1 or 2 lessons as long as the student himself/herself feel comfortable about it. As a tutor, he/she should be confident in their teaching and as long as the parents are not interrupting the lesson unnecessarily, there should not be any issue.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1883668https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1883668Thu, 15 Nov 2018 07:48:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Tue, 16 Oct 2018 04:18:21 GMT]]>

xueyan:
Hi


May I know is it reasonable for me to expect tutor to cover creative writing in the English tuition? I believe creative writing is quite specialized and not all tutors can teach?

Please advise

Thanks.
I believe you might be talking either about creative writing in the language arts aspects (IP schools) or creative writing for the CAP programme which is MOE programme. You can ask for a tutor that is proficient in teaching that because as mentioned its pretty niche, however yes its not a standalone!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1878995https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1878995Tue, 16 Oct 2018 04:18:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Mon, 08 Oct 2018 11:24:39 GMT]]>

xueyan:
Hi


May I know is it reasonable for me to expect tutor to cover creative writing in the English tuition? I believe creative writing is quite specialized and not all tutors can teach?

Please advise

Thanks.
Do you still need one ,PM me if you do.I know one who specializes in CW but her fee is steep and teaching in the west

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1877788https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1877788Mon, 08 Oct 2018 11:24:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to All About Finding &amp; Evaluating Tutors on Mon, 14 May 2018 07:06:35 GMT]]>

xueyan:
Hi


May I know is it reasonable for me to expect tutor to cover creative writing in the English tuition? I believe creative writing is quite specialized and not all tutors can teach?

Please advise

Thanks.
Strictly speaking, creative writing in a specific writing style which many would find important but is not the entire gist of the english language. That being said, creative writing can be learned along with the english language because mastery of writing requires an understanding of grammar, vocabulary, sentence structuring, etc.

So, learning creative writing is great but should not be a standalone. Thats my opinion.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1847722https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1847722Mon, 14 May 2018 07:06:35 GMT