I actually recieved an offer to tutor at Dana Point today. It will be a couple of hours and he is willing to pay for travel time. I'm not sure if I want to be that far away from home. I enjoy tutoring five minutes away from my house at the local library or at Barnes and Noble. The librarians and the employees at Barnes and Noble know who I am and that I tutor. They are so nice and pleasant to me. I was checking in to one of the study rooms tonight and the librarian was commenting how much time I spend here. I was thinking I know if I can only just do pleasure reading instead I'm looking through math books just reviewing until my next client enters in the room.
I'm on a set weekday schedule now. I have my regular clients who I tutor. Today I was tutoring my high school student. I thought it was really cool how her mom bought me a Diet Coke. I felt like family. I enjoy teaching their daughter math.
I had someone call me today and ask if I do the tutoring myself or if I have someone else do it. I thought it was kind of odd because I would do the tutoring to make sure the student is learning. I'm not all about the money! I started researching because that made me think about tutoring in general. I started looking online and I can see many tutors say they are certified to teach and then send one of their staff out to tutor. I get it! They pay this low wage non-credential person to tutor and then they keep the money and they are the ones credentialed. They never tutored someone else did it and they were a student. They are not teachers or even have Bachelor Degrees. Now I know why so many parents ask me if I do the tutoring myself because I am a legitimate teacher. I just want to reassure everyone that I do the tutoring just me who holds a Secondary Education Credential and can be looked up on the teacher's state website. I can't think of it but you can google.... California teacher look up and then type my name in Patricia Flores
