Children or adults, who most need tutors, have learning problems that are a difficult challenge to the best trained tutors. Some are underachievers or slow learners, others have difficulty learning visually, perhaps some do not remember what they hear. Others have very short attention spans. Tutoring's basic goal is to help a child or an adult become a successful learnerwhen placed in a classroom of 25 to 35 other students. The successful tutorial produces an individual that has the skills and motivation to be a lifelong learner.
Professional tutors are teachers who are retrained as tutors.
They tackle the difficult diagnostic issues as to why a child or an adult has fallen behind. Properly trained and supervised student tutors can work very effectively right in the classroom. This is a big plus for a tutoring team. They also can provide important long-term reinforcement for previous tutoring and daily classroom teaching. Local communities need to establishthis system of professional, student, and adult volunteer tutors, and also offer these tutors more training and constant retraining in the best practices.