This'll sound dorky and like a cop-out, but uh... I'm not sure if I know how to tutor. I tutored one of my classmate's teenaged daughter's once, but I'm not real sure that I should have been paid at all; I didn't know what I was doing or where to even start. It was awkward and I don't think it accomplished anything at all. It wasn't a good experience.
(Another time I tried to help someone, he expected me to practically hold his pen for him. And do all his reading for him. And come up with a thesis, opening, body, and conclusion for him. He didn't speak English very well, and so I couldn't get him to understand what I was actually there to help with-- grammar, punctuation, etc. I gave up after two sessions of trying to explain that I wasn't writing his whole damned paper for him.)
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Date: 2008-11-06 03:44 am (UTC)I tutored one of my classmate's teenaged daughter's once, but I'm not real sure that I should have been paid at all; I didn't know what I was doing or where to even start. It was awkward and I don't think it accomplished anything at all. It wasn't a good experience.
(Another time I tried to help someone, he expected me to practically hold his pen for him. And do all his reading for him. And come up with a thesis, opening, body, and conclusion for him. He didn't speak English very well, and so I couldn't get him to understand what I was actually there to help with-- grammar, punctuation, etc. I gave up after two sessions of trying to explain that I wasn't writing his whole damned paper for him.)