The long-term benefits of tutoring extend beyond immediate academic progress and confidence. While tutoring can certainly boost a student’s marks and grasp of particular subjects, its positive influence continues to resonate in broader aspects of life. Some key long-term benefits of tutoring include improved self-confidence, stronger study habits, better time management skills, increased academic independence, and preparation for future success. Primarily, tutoring can influence a significant boost in self-confidence, fuelled by the relationship between tutor and student working to understand difficult concepts and achieving small wins within this space. This renewed belief in their strengths enables students to take on broader challenges both academically and in life with a positive mindset. Moreover, tutoring can teach students stronger study habits through the structure and routine provided within and outside of the sessions. By teaching students particular strategies suited to their learning style such as note-taking techniques and essay structures, students are able to take this approach in their own personal learning spaces, similarly fuelled by the weekly homework tasks set by their tutor. Through tutoring, students are able to become more independent learners as well. Tutors guide students through the process of solving and understanding problems on their own, without simply providing answers. As a result of this structure, students develop key problem-solving and critical thinking skills which enable them to become self-reliant within their academic journey. This autonomy becomes a lifelong asset, as students continue to approach new challenges both within their school year, alongside daily challenges and throughout the workspace in the future. Tutoring also provides students with better time management skills as they navigate school work alongside tutoring homework and the expectations given with their select time with the tutor and the questions they should bring. These benefits, as reviewed above, work in tandem to act as a key preparation for future success, particularly in a student’s older educational years, such as in the HSC and other high-stress exams such as the SAT, or LSAT’s.

Georgina Maxwell