Benefits of Tutoring

Benefits to Tutors

In addition to meetings lots of interesting people, getting a glimpse into the teaching and helping professions, and gaining personal satisfaction from helping others, tutoring also provides the following intellectual benefits to the tutor:

• Encourages higher levels of thinking.
• Permits more advanced students to study below-level material without embarrassment.
• Increases motivation to learn in order to maintain new role.
• Increases ability to manage own learning and study strategies.
• Increases subject specific knowledge.
• Increases related general knowledge.
• Increases understanding of subject area.

Benefits to Students

• Offers more individualized, systematic, structured learning experience.
• Provides greater congruence between teacher and learner, closer role model.
• Improves academic performance and personal growth.
• Improves attitude toward subject area.
• Generates stronger effects than other individualized teaching strategies.
• Motivates self-paced and self-directed learning.
• Provides intesive practice for students who need it.
• Improves self esteem.

Benefits to the College

• Increases opportunity to reinforce instruction.
• Increases positive student interaction.
• Enhances measurable positive changes in attitude towards teaching/learning for the participants.
• Improves educational climate.
• Facilitates ethnic and racial integration.