Observation on the mentality of contemporary undergraduate tutors
Attitude 1: Find something to do in your spare time.
More than 50% of college students use their spare time to gain social experience by tutoring, and this trend is still rising. Wei Yan, who graduated from college, said that once he got used to college life, he joined the tutor army. There are not many classes in freshmen and sophomores, and I don't live in school. Club activities are not busy, so taking part-time jobs in your spare time should be the most cost-effective plan. ?
At the busiest time, I go out at seven in the morning, teach four students for two hours a day, and go home at night 10. Every day's schedule is full in winter and summer vacations, and so is the weekend after school starts. This state lasted for a year and a half, and then I stopped being a tutor because I had a girlfriend who didn't have time. ? Wei Yan, full of leisure, earned nearly 20 thousand yuan in a year and a half. Parents are also very supportive. Of course, I gave all the money I earned to my parents. In fact, they just kept it for me to pay my tuition. The most exciting thing is that I bought a SLR camera with the money I earned, which can be regarded as a realization of my dream of being a little photographer. ?
As a junior in the second year of high school, I became a tutor with my friends after the college entrance examination, which has continued to this day. In her words, what was the original intention? To spend a boring three-month long vacation? . Unlike Wei Yan, Xiaoxi and her friends did not find an intermediary, but taught in their former teacher's home. ? An old teacher who taught my classmates in junior high school retired, so we went to his house to be a tutor. The old teacher is in charge of enrollment, and we are in charge of teaching. Two hours 100 yuan, I teach English, take care of three children and see their English scores? Hey? Rising, full of sense of accomplishment! ? Wei Yan also said:? None of the seven children I brought up was admitted to the high school level. After my general counseling, they were admitted to key high schools in Hedong District. Although they don't have to make up lessons after school, their parents often contact me. After a child entered the second year of high school, his parents contacted me again, hoping that I could help with holiday counseling. Maybe 20,000 yuan is very tempting for ordinary college students, but seeing students' grades advancing by leaps and bounds, that sense of accomplishment can't be exchanged for any money. ?
Survey: For these students who want to enrich their college life, the way to find a tutor job is usually to find an intermediary or ask a friend to introduce them. The reporter made an unannounced visit to the tutor intermediary in an office building near Balitai to find out how the intermediary introduced the tutor. The person in charge said:? Every summer vacation to the end of the year is the most popular period of family education. We introduce a successful family education, and charge 50 yuan an agency fee. If you want to do family education, please come to us to fill in a registration form and register the subjects you can teach, and then wait for our call. ? The reporter asked how long a successful tutor can usually teach. The person in charge told the reporter: It depends entirely on yourself, with an average of more than half a year, but it also depends on whether you teach well or not. According to our regulations, the first class is a 50% discount trial lecture, and the agency fee will be charged only after the trial lecture is successful. ?
Attitude 2: It's just a part-time job.
The high income of family education is like food, which makes ordinary college students without wage income? Red eyes? . Compared with other part-time jobs, such as leaflets and the income of a few dollars an hour of fast food waiters, tutoring is really accumulated before graduation. The first bucket of gold? The best and fastest channel.
I didn't choose to be a tutor in the morning and summer vacation when I first applied to college. Instead, I started with the cashier at the fast food restaurant and asked why I didn't choose a tutor with higher income. I just graduated from here. Can I be a tutor? ? Indeed, the tutor industry has higher requirements for college students. Therefore, students who are patient and good at basic subjects will soon be able to integrate into the tutor market, even with a little training, which seems to be no different from formal in-service teachers.
Xiaoding, who graduated this year, has been a one-on-one teacher and tutor in an educational institution since her junior year. Excluding travel, clothes, parties, tuition fees and other expenses, Xiaoding has saved nearly 30 thousand yuan a year, and Xiaoding even has the idea of starting his own business to open a tutor institution. ? I didn't think about taking a part-time job when I was a freshman and a sophomore. Before my junior year, I accidentally learned that an educational institution wanted to recruit teachers. I successfully applied and have been working in this institution until now. I didn't want to work for a long time at first, but I went with the purpose of accumulating experience. I major in English, and I can be an English teacher after graduation. But after working for several months, I found that the income of this job is very, very high. Only two nights on weekends, the monthly salary can reach more than 5000 yuan. ? Xiaoding said frankly.
Attitude 3: Shortcut of Financial Aid for Poor Students
In addition to intermediaries and friends, colleges and universities will also provide tutors for students. ? After 80? Xiao Jia said: when we were in college, we looked for tutors through the work-study department of the school, and the school provided a large number of tutors for students to choose from every semester. ? For this reason, the reporter visited the work-study centers of several universities in this city.
Zhang Yi, director of the work-study program at Tianjin Normal University, said? We will provide a small number of tutor positions, but most of the part-time jobs are on campus, which is also to ensure the safety of students. Moreover, these part-time jobs usually give priority to poor students and let them subsidize their living and tuition. ? Zhang Ye, head of the work-study program department of Tianjin University, also told reporters that the part-time jobs offered by the school give priority to poor students. Unlike Normal University, Tianda will provide 800 to 1200 tutor positions every year. Zhang Ye said:? Our school is a science and engineering college, so the part-time jobs provided are mainly divided into three types: enterprises, schools and tutors, totaling about 10000. Tutoring is relatively the most popular, especially for poor students. They took a fancy to the high salary of this job, which can subsidize both tuition and family. Every year, the demand for tutor positions is in short supply, and the number of applicants is at least two to three times that of the positions, half of which are poor students and the other half are ordinary students. ?
Tianjin University has strict requirements for students' tutoring, such as signing an agreement with parents, the distance of tutoring should not exceed the limit, girls should teach boys not to return to school later than dark, and boys should return to school no later than 10 to ensure the safety of students. Zhang Ye said:? At least so far, there have been no disputes and no safety problems among students who have been tutored by the school. We try our best to protect students, a social vulnerable group. ?
Post-70 s college students tell
A university is incomplete without a tutor.
Liu studies in the English Department of a university in Beijing. He told reporters: When we were in college, even boys would teach in their spare time. There are 8 people in our dormitory, 7 of whom have the experience of being a tutor. At that time, the network was not developed, so it was impossible to download the question bank from the internet, and there were not many extracurricular counseling books. Therefore, the general tutors usually tell questions according to the textbooks and exercises issued by the school, and we will answer questions if the children have any questions. Now, it seems a bit like accompanying students. Fortunately, at that time, children took teachers seriously, and they did listen to a few words of education. ? Liu recalled.
The process of finding a tutor is also very simple, usually write an article? Tutor? Brand, take advantage of weekends near the school? Standing. Standing? Several students take turns, and parents will come here for consultation. Students recommend each other or themselves according to their own specialties. At that time, tutoring was charged by the hour, one hour 15 yuan. It is tiring to earn a little money, but I enjoy it. The enthusiasm of being a tutor and environmental factors are very important. The students around me are tutors, and they are busy all day, so they always feel embarrassed not to do it themselves. Looking back now, it was that experience that influenced my character, and I am no longer introverted. ? Liu even thinks that college life is incomplete without family education.
Not only students in Beijing universities, but also students in Tianjin, Jinan, Shanghai and other cities are very keen on tutoring as a part-time job. However, among students in different cities and classes, the labor remuneration of college students is different, such as Jinan 10 yuan, Beijing 15-20 yuan, Shanghai 15-25 yuan. Different prices symbolize the prosperity of the tutor market.
Why are college students keen on tutoring?
Being a tutor is an attitude towards life.
After more than ten years of development, there is no original school gate for college students to tutor? Tutor a street? With the lively scene and the gradual diversification of social practice, the number of college students doing part-time tutoring has been greatly reduced, but compared with part-time jobs such as distributing leaflets and selling, tutoring is still the first choice for college students because it does not require long-term exposure and loud shouting. In recent years, with the help of schools and the concern of parents, college students have gradually stepped into the stable track of family education. Compared with the past and present, undergraduate tutor has many differences.
1. Family education subjects are more and more extensive. In the past, it was only limited to teachers' subjects (Chinese, mathematics and English). Now, not only all general courses in primary and secondary schools have part-time tutoring for college students, but even hobbies such as computer, piano and calligraphy have attracted the attention of college students and parents.
2. Parents of primary and secondary school students, right? Tutor? This new form of education is increasingly recognized by people. In the era when family education was just emerging, only a few parents received higher education or foreign culture, and their family conditions were rich, so they received family tutoring. However, with the popularity of one-child families, parents are willing to invest as much time and money as possible in their children's education, so VIP-style one-on-one family tutoring has won the hearts of parents, especially for parents who have been busy for a long time. They are more willing to find an undergraduate tutor as a companion tutor for their children.
3. The form and content of family education are becoming more and more formal. In the past, college students' tutors were equivalent to accompanying students, and they were rarely able to independently write lesson plans and provide personalized and targeted counseling. Now with the improvement of college students' education level, these teachers who have not left school are more willing to write their own teaching plans, teach according to their own ideas, and emphasize interest guidance. In addition, new college students will go to the bookstore to carefully select extracurricular problems and teach according to the difficulty gradient.
4. The salary of undergraduate tutors has doubled. At the end of last century, college students received very little salary from tutoring, most of which was used to subsidize living expenses, and only a few people could pay tuition fees by tutoring; What about now? Earn money for education? It's getting easier. As long as it is well taught, it is not uncommon for a class to cost hundreds of dollars an hour. There are not a few teachers who earn thousands of yuan a month in undergraduate tutors.
5. Find diversified channels for tutors. After 70, college students usually look for tutors in the work-study department of colleges and universities, but now with the rise and competition of private educational institutions, it is easier for students to find suitable teaching objects through intermediary introduction.
6. Parents of college students are more concerned about their children's safety. More and more parents of college students will give their children a lesson before they engage in tutoring, such as how to deal with emergencies. Female college students should not teach boys or teach too far. These problems were not taken seriously by parents more than ten years ago.
7. The most interesting thing is the change of college students' mentality. Tutoring has changed from a compulsory course in college life to one of many part-time jobs for students, accumulating life? The first bucket of gold? The most convenient channel.
Reporter's notes
Nowadays, the types of part-time jobs are more and more diversified, and college students pay more attention to whether social practical experience can match their majors. Therefore, apart from students in basic subjects, tutoring is no longer the darling of part-time jobs. As for the attitude towards family education, college students and their parents tend to be more rational. You don't need to subsidize your family, you should spend more time studying and be fully prepared for finding a job and taking the postgraduate entrance examination. ? Qian Fang, who has worked in an educational institution for more than a year, said frankly: Tutoring can never become a formal profession. ? Are primary and secondary school students and parents more willing to choose the demand side of the tutor market? Famous school teacher? In an institution with such words, some parents don't even care about the teaching level of teachers, as long as famous teachers pay a lot of money for classes. In this regard, Yan Yang, an expert from the Institute of Psychology of Tianjin University, suggested that parents should not be overworked? Superstition? Teacher effect, in fact, the teaching level is the first important.