Tutoring As A Successful Business by Eileen Kaplan Shapiro
An Expert Tutor Shows You How
Nateen Publishing Company - 2001
ISBN: 096723610X - Trade Paperback
Nonfiction / How To

Reviewed by Beverly J. Rowe, MyShelf.Com
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Shapiro shows you how to use your teaching skills to earn big money as a professional tutor with no special educational requirements and no teaching certificate. Shapiro claims to be charging $75.00 per hour per student.

With 28 years experience as a professional tutor, Shapiro has put together a guide to cover all phases of tutoring from getting to know your clients' needs to the business end of tutoring. She gives you specific help on how to set up and promote a part-time or full-time business. She shares a wealth of useful information and successful strategies on how to make sure your client is learning the material and how to pre-test to assess their needs. Your clients can be anyone who needs academic help from preschoolers through college students and adults, including special education and homebound students. This is also a superb text for parents and home school providers. The last section of the book consists of appendices filled with professional teaching tips.

If you have always had a love of teaching and want to share your skills with students in need of help, this book will give you the inspiration to start and the skills to work up to a very lucrative full-time business. It is very well written and shows that the author has full command of the material presented. It is laced with anecdotes from Shapiro's own experience to illustrate various points, and is simple enough for beginners, but useful for advanced tutors.