How to Become a Tutor

Earn Income by Becoming a Private Home Tutor

How to become a tutor, you ask? Private home tutors can make a very nice supplemental income for stay at home moms. Learn how to get your business started.

When you think about the word tutor, what pops into your head? Do you picture some wizened old woman tapping her hand with a yardstick as she hovers over a struggling student?

Perhaps you envision a man like the poet Thoreau teaching a young Louisa May Alcott how to write the novel, Little Women. Maybe your thoughts lean more towards a determined Kathy Bates in the movie The Blind Side.

No matter what comes to your mind, as a stay at home mom, you are in the perfect position to learn how to become a tutor by using the teaching skills you were born with and make a stay at home mom income.

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How to Become a Tutor - Getting Started

What does it take to learn how to become a tutor? What kinds of stay at home moms make excellent tutors? Be A Great Tutor, an eBook by Erin O' Briant, offers all kinds of answers for private home tutors seeking work. She points out that as you learn how to become a tutor you will discover its many perks, one of which is the ability to establish your own schedule while earning a stay at home mom income.

For many stay at home moms that is a huge plus! You get to decide your hourly rates and can make the job work with your life responsibilities such as your family. Of course, one of the great pros of learning how to become a tutor is the satisfaction of seeing your struggling student overcome their learning obstacles.

As with any new venture, there are always cons to think about. Building up a clientele for private home tutors takes time and can be a slow process. Income can be unpredictable, especially around school breaks or when you have students that graduate.

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Since it's your own business, it's up to you to think about health care and sick days.

More than likely you will need to provide your own transportation to your client's home, too. Probably one of the toughest considerations for a stay home mom interested in learning how to become a tutor is that most tutoring takes place in the evenings or weekends which can take away from your family time.

However, the eBook Be A Great Tutor, offers lots of suggestions and considerations on overcoming these obstacles for private home tutors. A few things suggested by the book to think about are: how far are you willing to travel, what age group are you qualified to work with, what kind of skills can you teach, can you commit to working the same time frame for a year or more, and what rates will be charged?

Be a Great Tutor spends some time on the importance of presentation for private home tutors, too. Resumes, business cards, references, rate sheets, sample contracts-all of these things add to your professional look and are important for any stay at home mom who wants to learn how to become a tutor and earn a stay at home mom income.

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Online Tutoring - eTutoring

What if you aren't able to travel to a client's home? Some private home tutors get really creative and offer eTutoring.

This form of teaching takes place online and works best for students who are savvy about the internet and multimedia, as well as, have the ability to stay focused.

For a stay at home mom learning how to become a tutor, this also allows for even more flexibility in your scheduled hours. If you are working with someone in a different time zone, or even a different country, you may be able to tutor at times that don't interfere with your family's routine. One draw back for those learning how to become a tutor: rates for online services are generally cheaper than what is charged for a face to face visit.

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Advertise Your Tutoring Business

Once you figure out what services you will offer, it's time to get the word out. While Be A Great Tutor offers guidance on creating fliers, business cards, and using word of mouth, it also explains the benefits of having a personal website. For private home tutors, a tutoring website provides a place for clients to find you and learn about your teaching philosophy.

Here, they can post testimonials about your brilliance and what accomplishments their son/daughter achieved under your care. For your students, a website can have downloadable forms on it to help them in certain subjects, or you can include links to sites that will allow them to test themselves in their time away from you.

Creating your own website may seem like a daunting task, but believe it or not, you don't have to higher a fancy web designer to get the job done.

Websites like Site Build It! offer easy to use information and will walk you through the steps it takes to set up a website.

SBI offers tools that help you stay current with your site and is user friendly for the stay at home mom interested in learning how to become a tutor and generating supplemental income.

Another important tip to for private home tutors wishing to advertise their skills: SBI offers the option to earn additional income through monetization efforts on their sites!

Interested in learning more about how to become a tutor? Check out the eBook Be A Great Tutor for more advice and ideas!

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