When meeting with your tutor, you’ll want some indication of progress. Ask her to draft a letter/email every two to four weeks for you. I like email because it is a paper trail and easily forwarded to teachers for review. Try to stay away from verbal updates. In the written review she should cover:

1. Your child’s attentiveness and willingness to learn. (Behavior during sessions.)

Tutoring centers, such as Kumon and Sylvan, provide organized and tested strategies for improving students’ work. Benefits include very experienced staff, often teachers themselves. There are plenty of resources available and if one tutor isn’t working for your child, another can be requested. However, centers are also very expensive, sometimes impersonal, far away, or not open hours you want. For these or any other reasons, you may choose to find a private tutor willing to come to your home. If so, there are some things to think about when interviewing:

1. Experience: