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.
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!!
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeletePS -- 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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