Tutoring is a great business idea if you like to teach, if you can use the added income, and if you prefer a venture with very minimal start-up costs.
You can be a tutor on about anything you know well - whether it is academics, foreign languages, playing a musical instrument, or using the computer.
Depending on your area of expertise, your clients can be grade school students, high school kids, college students, or just about anybody who wishes to learn from you: a grandmother who wants to use the computer to send emails to her family, an immigrant who needs to polish his English, or an executive who wishes to learn how-to play the guitar.
The manner of delivering tutorial services depends on the subjects you teach and your students. It can be personal, on a face-to-face basis, or you can also use email, chat, fax, or phone. Tutoring younger kids, as well as teaching adults new skills, may require your physical presence but you can do online tutorial for the other students such as those attending college.
Although you may want to start as a one-person tutoring business, you may eventually decide to expand your operations and set up a formal tutoring company and hire other tutors. Alternatively, you can provide a tutor referral service and match tutors to the students who need them.
Are You Qualified to Be a Tutor?
While establishments offering tutorial services require their tutors to have at least a bachelor's degree, this is not a requirement if you are to venture on your own as a tutorial service provider. Neither are you required to have a teaching degree nor a classroom teaching experience although that can work to your advantage.
However, you must possess basic teaching skills. Those who succeed in this business are people with the sincere desire to be mentors and help others learn. A tutor must also be a good communicator, patient, and creative. Another must is specialized knowledge. Although you get to choose the subjects you teach, it is logical to handle those that fall within your field of specialization. This way you can feel confident and well equipped to answer questions posed by your students and enjoy teaching it, too. Degrees in English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, and Foreign Languages can boost your credentials when handling academic tutoring, especially for high school and college levels.
Teachers and day care workers can easily do tutoring as a part-time job. Parents who capably home school their children or help them with their homework may also want to tutor other kids.
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