‘TEACHER TUTORS–FOR–HIRE’

BLESILDA M. SANGIL

Tutors are prolifying whether in private or public schools. What’s the reason behind? Low average pupils? Or low performing teachers?

Teachers give individual instruction in a special subject or for a particular purpose. Hiring one is like paying for double marticulation. Pupils will be spending extra hour/ s after class everyday. Why still parents hire them?

Their kids could be slow learners and cannot picked up their lessons easily or in either ways that their kids are achievers and they don’t want them to be left behind by their classmates.

Some might say that parents hire private teachers because of their low performing teachers that communicate completely an obfuscation to the young or of too much homework and too many subjects. That if teachers will only be doing their job effectively, they would not need the service of a tutor.

The increasing number of tutors doesn’t mean teachers are ncompetent but rather pupils need extra guidance to cope up with the lessons they found to be unclarified. Teachers should not be blamed but be thankful instead. Some of them might not be good enough but most of them deserve to be commended. Making children learn is not the soul task of a teacher but the parents as well. Follow- ups are needed at home. Teachers cannot give full supervision to 40 or more pupils per day ( in a public scenario ). Whatever methods and strategies they will utilize mean nothing if pupils themselves don’t want to learn. Especially nowadays, they pay more attention to different impediments (like internet, video games,cellphones,etc. ) than their studies

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The author is Master Teacher I at Dolores Elementary School