»Becoming a Math Tutor

• Teaches empathy with students
• Helps students learn about tutoring
• Helps tutors become sensitive to the emotional and intellectual needs of others
• Increases knowledge of mathematics
• Helps to become a role-model for other students
• Improves attitude toward mathematics
• Teaches tutors to speak less and listen more
• Helps tutors learn how and when to give and take
• Helps tutors learn to mediate and negotiate between work and play
• Will give respect for math knowledge and skills
• Will teach patience needed throughout life
• Heightens sense of competency in conforming to a new role
• Encourages higher levels of thinking
• Increases the ability to manage your own learning
• Increases study strategies

*Based on: Is Tutoring for you? Three Rivers Community College and Introduction to Tutoring, University of Tennessee Chattanooga