Most tutoring is done by individuals with little or no training in the fine art of teaching. Many tutors are actually college students or graduate students moonlighting for lunch money. There is no class a person can take to learn to be a tutor, or to improve his tutoring skills. Often, tutoring services boast about the names of colleges that their tutors attend as if going to a big name college automatically makes you a great tutor. In reality, attending a top college has little or nothing to do with how well you can teach. On the contrary, some of these students are just so smart that learning comes easily to them, so they don’t really have a deep understanding of how to help a student who struggles in a particular subject area. It is best to start with a tutor you learned about from a trusted source, or to hire a tutor from a reputable company.