Okay, I have done my reading, my meditation and put in 20 minutes on the exercycle. Time to start the work day. It is minus five out there, but I am off to tutor. I have been working with a young mother here in the Dells for a number of months, helping her improve her English language skills. She works hard and I always leave feeling good.
Looking for something to do? Consider tutoring! You have a skill someone else would love to learn.
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My son's fiance tutors peeps of all ages. She even tutored my son and he finally got his state certified GED!!! At age 31!! I was so proud!!
I think teaching in any way, shape or form is a commendable and rewarding job...or hobby. It's wonderful, at any rate.
One of the great things I got from teaching, of course, was how much I had to learn myself. Whether this was lecturing to graduate students or helping someone in a beginning English-as-a-Second-Language program, there is always more for me to learn. I think those of us who grew up with English often have little idea how complicated it is! When I first started teaching ESL as a seminarian, students were always asking me questions about why this, and why that? And I thought I was pretty bright. but way too often I had no answer beyond, "Well, that's the way we do it." Then when I went and looked it up, it usually turned out there really was a reason or at least a meaningful rule. But I didn't know that until someone I was trying to teach asked me the question.
PS -- My tutoring is volunteer work. But lots of tutors out there make a living doing it or at least earn a little money, and more power to them! That one-on-one attention to helping someone expand their world is, in the words of the MasterCard commercial, priceless.
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