Teachers teach a class, but tutors facilitate learning. As learning facilitators, tutors are more effective than teachers. Teachers usually teach up to 30 children in one class. The group setting most effective for learning should only have up to 15 students in one class. A tutoring session, on one hand, usually consists of one tutor to one or two students, which is an ideal set up.

Tutors, especially summer tutors, bridge the gaps in learning in a classroom setting. Summer tutors focus on their students’ needs more than a teacher can do in the classroom. Students who enroll in summer classes benefit from this one-on-one guidance. Tutors closely monitor their progress and immediately apply interventions.

Several reasons for summer tutoring exist. Since the teaching set-up is one on one, the lessons focus on the child’s needs. A summer tutor pays more attention to the child’s learning process and can attend to the child’s weaknesses. Aside from that, summer tutoring address the child’s learning style and matches it to the pacing of the lessons.

In the classroom set-up, the teacher attends to an average of twenty to thirty students. Naturally, students learn at different levels and speed, and using different styles. Some students need lengthy discussions and more time to digest the lesson, while others read the materials and study on their own.

If the majority of the students understood the lesson, then the teacher moves forward, leaving behind one or two students in the process. In-house tutors help these children catch up with the rest of the class.

A summer tutor also makes it easier to diagnose learning problems. Although tutors are not expected to diagnose and correct these problems, they may give advice or refer the child to the proper professional.

For parents who cannot find time to help their children with homework or projects, summer tutors act as substitutes. Children can easily manage schoolwork while parents get the assurance that their child’s needs are met.

For most students, summer break usually means more fun, less schoolwork. Some students take this time to get away and have fun with friends and family members. However, not all students think this way.

Many students make good use of their free time during summer by tutoring younger children or by enrolling in summer classes to improve their skills and to prepare for the next school year. Summer tutoring brings many benefits, even if it means giving up summer camp, family trips and vacations.

A child performing poorly in school can catch up during summer with an in-home tutor. The tutor helps the child review past lessons and prepare for the start of school. While other children experience summer learning loss, a child enrolled in a summer tutoring program keeps learning, and consequently, copes well with the demands of schoolwork.

Students who are already doing well in school can do more when they take advantage of summer tutoring programs that offer advanced lessons. This gives them a better foundation of knowledge and better chances to excel when classes re-open.

On one hand, graduating students take refresher courses or general reviews of past lessons to prepare for entrance exams. This ensures that they fully comprehend the concepts they learned and retain the skills they developed while in school.

Students who will be entering college take SAT prep lessons to ease their way through the entrance tests. Some students would have already chosen the universities they wanted to enroll at. Summer gives them the best opportunity to gear up for what lies ahead of them.

Summer tutorials are not as demanding as regular classes. Students are free from the stress and pressure that schoolwork brings. The study hours are not as long and they do not have to keep up with their classmates. This relaxed pace facilitates learning more than peer competition.

Every student looks forward to spending summer somewhere cool and fun. Going to classes is not one of them. However, what if learning can be cool and fun as well as beneficial for the student? Summer tutoring is a great opportunity for some students to improve grades and for others to earn extra cash.

Tutoring is not like holding a class, especially when it is one-on-one. Tutors may be professional educators or they can be other students who can help their fellow students. The tutors are employed as part of a school’s tutoring program to help their low performing students.

A private tutoring session is usually face-to-face; however, with the popularity of the Internet comes innovation, which is online tutoring. In-house tutoring has its advantages over online tutoring, and vice versa, but that is a topic best explored in another article.

For now, let us explore the benefits students can have from summer tutoring. One of the best benefits, of course, is continued learning, which prevents learning loss. Summer learning loss varies across grade level, subject matter and family income. Learning loss is greater in mathematics and reading with 2 or more months of learning achievement forgotten.

Summer tutoring can prevent this. Both the tutors and the ones receiving the tutoring are forced to refresh their learning. Even when the tutors are teachers, they still benefit from tutoring. They continue to build their teaching skills, especially with students who may have learning disabilities or with low academic scores.

Summer tutoring could be beneficial to parents, too. School age children need summer activities planned for them so they have something to do while their parents are at work during the day. Some parents send their children to summer camps. Other parents allow their children to have summer vacations in other states or in other countries.

Summer tutoring is a good alternative to summer camps and week-long vacations. It is less expensive and more advantageous.