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.

As the school year approaches the end, visions or running through the front door of everyone’s school on the last day brings to mind visions of hot summer days lounging in the sun without a care in the world – and definitely not more work.

As educators, we see the summer a little differently (as we should). Even if a student spends one day a week using his or her brain on something academic, it can pay dividends once school starts again in the Fall. Stepping Stone Tutors offers summer tutoring for math, science, reading, and test-preparation.

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.

Summer learning loss is more common than you think. All children lose a portion of academic knowledge and skills during summer. Students from higher income families have more opportunities to continue learning through fun and educational summer camps. However, students who belong to low income groups lack the resources to join these summer activities or get involved with summer programs at the local school.

The National Summer Learning Association says the low income students lose more than 2 months of grade equivalency in reading as well as in mathematics. The lack of learning opportunities during summer contributes to this learning loss. As more low income students suffer learning loss without benefiting from any kind of intervention, their chances of graduating from high school decreases.

Summer tutoring is a type of intervention that can staunch summer learning loss. Parents with the money to spare should enroll their children in a summer reading program or with an in-house tutor. School districts have their own summer learning programs for their students.

Summer takes almost three months of time dedicated to leisure and relaxation. However, for the less hedonistic, summer presents an opportunity to earn extra cash. Students can work in summer jobs bussing tables, manning cashiers or watching over people at the beach.A good way to earn money as well as prevent summer learning loss is to work as a peer tutor.

Peer tutors are not professional educators. They are usually college students or senior high school students who have been performing well in school. Parents can find peer tutors for their school-age children through summer tutoring programs offered by the schools and some non-government agencies. They also have the option of hiring a private tutor for in-house tutoring.

Summer tutoring allows for flexibility in schedule; the child can still enjoy short summer vacations and camps. The tutoring can be done in-house (face-to-face) or online through the Internet, depending on the needs of the student being tutored. The student learns at his or her own pace with materials that are interesting and motivational to the child. Parents also have the opportunity to get involved in their child’s summer learning. By the time the new school year comes, students would have mastered a skill from the previous year, or had a nice head start.

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.

Summer is a great time for students to work on study skills, get caught up on subject material, and study for standardized tests.  Some students enroll in summer school classes and have ongoing homework assignments while others have spoken with their teachers at the end of the previous semester to get recommendations on what they can work on over the summer.

We have a lot of parents that contact us over the summer that want to work on specific skills like math or writing and we do our best to connect them with a tutor that can help them in their home.  Depending on when a customer contacts us, we can talk to the students’ teacher(s) and get recommendations on additional assignments and activities they can work on over the summer.  If we are not able to reach the students’ teacher, then our tutors can usually come up with other materials to use.

Aside from improving on subject material from the previous school year, a lot of parents want to keep their child’s brains from turning to mush over the summer. Signing up for a class or contacting a tutoring service can be a good way to keep things fresh so that they come better prepared for the upcoming school year. It also helps to build a relationship with a tutor early on so that the tutor can catch problems early once the school year starts again.