{"id":633,"date":"2021-12-03T21:28:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T04:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novakidschool.com\/blog\/?p=633"},"modified":"2022-09-30T07:37:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T14:37:07","slug":"how-to-tell-if-tutors-are-just-a-waste-of-your-money-5-signs-and-a-secret-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novakidschool.com\/blog\/how-to-tell-if-tutors-are-just-a-waste-of-your-money-5-signs-and-a-secret-formula\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Tell if Tutors Are Just a Waste of Your Money: 5 Signs and a Secret Formula"},"content":{"rendered":"  <section class=\"section blogHeader\" id=\"blogHeader-block_62bd25d93fe6a\">\n      <div class=\"blogHeader__wrapper\">\n                              <div class=\"blogHeader__image\">\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.novakidschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/shutterstock_547096873.webp\" class=\"glightbox\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.novakidschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/shutterstock_547096873.webp\" alt=\"How to Tell if Tutors Are Just a Waste of Your Money\" class=\"blogHeader__imageItem\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.novakidschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/shutterstock_547096873-300x180.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.novakidschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/shutterstock_547096873-1024x614.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.novakidschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/shutterstock_547096873-768x461.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.novakidschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/shutterstock_547096873-1536x922.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.novakidschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/shutterstock_547096873.webp 2000w\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:1024\/614;\"> \n              <\/a>\n          <\/div>\n          \n      <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n      <section class=\"blogContentTable\" data-toc-section>\n        <input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"blogTocToggle\" class=\"blogContentTable__toggle\" \/>\n        <label for=\"blogTocToggle\" class=\"blogContentTable__header\">\n            <span class=\"blogContentTable__heading\">\n                Table of contents            <\/span>\n            <span class=\"blogContentTable__arrow\"><\/span>\n        <\/label>\n        <div class=\"blogContentTable__wrapper\">\n            <div class=\"blogContentTable__heading blogContentTable__heading--sidebar\">\n                Table of contents            <\/div>\n            <ol class=\"blogContentTable__list\">\n                                    <li>\n                        <span class=\"toc-item\">Pay attention to your kid\u2019s mood after a class. Enthusiasm and a desire to continue are the mark of a successful lesson.<\/span>\n                    <\/li>\n                                    <li>\n                        <span class=\"toc-item\">Secret formula<\/span>\n                    <\/li>\n                            <\/ol>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <script>\n        \/\/ Use DOMContentLoaded for faster TOC initialization\n        document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {\n            const tocSection = document.querySelector('[data-toc-section]');\n            if (!tocSection) return;\n\n            const headings = document.querySelectorAll('.blogHeadingText');\n            const tableContainer = tocSection.querySelector('.blogContentTable__list');\n            if (!tableContainer) return;\n\n            \/\/ Clear the container\n            tableContainer.innerHTML = '';\n\n            \/\/ Count valid headings with h2\n            let validHeadingsCount = 0;\n\n            \/\/ For each heading, create an item in the table of contents\n            headings.forEach((heading, index) => {\n                const h2 = heading.querySelector('h2');\n                if (!h2) return;\n\n                validHeadingsCount++;\n                const title = h2.textContent.trim();\n                const itemHtml = `<li><a href=\"#${heading.id}\">${title}<\/a><\/li>`;\n                tableContainer.innerHTML += itemHtml;\n            });\n\n            \/\/ Hide TOC if no valid headings found\n            if (validHeadingsCount === 0) {\n                tocSection.style.display = 'none';\n            }\n            \n            \/\/ Dispatch custom event to notify that TOC is ready\n            document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('tocReady'));\n        });\n    <\/script>\n  \n\n\n  <section class=\"section blogText\" id=\"blogText-block_62bd25fe3fe6b\">\n    <div class=\"blogText__wrapper\">\n        <div class=\"blogText__content\">\n            <p>Although the transition from private tutors to online education platforms was swift, parents had their time to decide how they felt about the opportunity to choose a teacher. The only question remains: how does one know the school is right for their kid, or they should change it?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Watch how a teacher reacts to your child\u2019s mistakes. Online tutors should have an especially high emotional intelligence (EI). It helps them gain a student\u2019s trust and create a proper study climate. Growing up with the school grading system, kids tend to be afraid of mistakes and failure. It seriously hinders their educational progress. If a tutor manages to tune in with a student and find a key to their motivation, the lessons tend to be much more fruitful.<\/li>\n<li>Modern online schools implement innovative methods of knowledge transfer into the educational process. For instance, the Total Physical Response method proved to be quite useful at our Novakid school. The teacher doesn\u2019t simply move through the slides and work on exercises with students but builds gestures, facial expressions, and physical movements into whole study program. It helps children learn faster and more efficiently.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n\n  <section class=\"section blogHeadingText\" id=\"blogHeadingText-block_62bd26263fe6c\">\n    <div class=\"blogHeadingText__wrapper\" >\n        <div class=\"blogHeadingText__heading\">\n            <h2 class=\"blogHeadingText__headingItem\" data-blog-heading data-section-id=\"blogHeadingText-block_62bd26263fe6c\">\n                Pay attention to your kid\u2019s mood after a class. Enthusiasm and a desire to continue are the mark of a successful lesson.             <\/h2>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"blogHeadingText__content\">\n            <ol start=\"3\">\n<li>The achievement system is an essential feedback element. If an online school can provide its students with such a system, parents can watch the progress without worrying that their kids are stuck or don\u2019t have enough knowledge.<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring a kid\u2019s progress might be a difficult task. Luckily, digital resources provide quite detailed data on students\u2019 performance. For example, Novakid uses over 1500 evaluation settings and other elements of data analysis.\u00a0 It provides us with a detailed productivity assessment and allows us to adapt the study program for each student.<\/li>\n<li>We have a digital solution to the issue of monitoring a kid\u2019s engagement level. We use tools like voice and video recognition and analysis. These register changes in a student\u2019s mood during a class to detect symptoms of boredom or fatigue that may interfere with a lesson and hinder the studying process. The program analyses the behaviour scenarios of a child and compiles recommendation models for each situation.\u00a0 This process is called personalised learning, and it defines the future of education!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n\n  <section class=\"section blogHeadingText\" id=\"blogHeadingText-block_62bd26443fe6d\">\n    <div class=\"blogHeadingText__wrapper\" >\n        <div class=\"blogHeadingText__heading\">\n            <h2 class=\"blogHeadingText__headingItem\" data-blog-heading data-section-id=\"blogHeadingText-block_62bd26443fe6d\">\n                Secret formula            <\/h2>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"blogHeadingText__content\">\n            <p>Schools usually have an approved study program. However, the opportunity to adapt the program according to the student\u2019s needs is a good competitive advantage and additional motivation. It\u2019s great when parents can discuss a long-term educational goal with a teacher and come up with a step-by-step plan; it is a decent strategy. But adults shouldn\u2019t be setting goals when kids are the ones that need to reach them. Goals like \u201cbecome successful in life\u201d or \u201cget into a good university\u201d can\u2019t motivate a child. While a goal like \u201cstart reading Marvel comics in the original\u201d can! That\u2019s the whole secret!<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the transition from private tutors to online education platforms was swift, parents had their time to decide how they felt about the opportunity to choose a teacher. 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