Tutoring can plan an important role in helping build a students confidence in their own abilities. It can be especially helpful when students may feel scared or embarrassed to ask questions in class, when they don’t understand soemthing. Tutoring creates a safe and comfortable atmosphere, where students feel supported and able to ask questions without feeling judged. By tutoring creating a safe environment, it helps students feel comfortable and confident in their own abilities.

Another way tutoring builds confidence is by helping students to effectively communicate their ideas. Students are able to ask questions, explore ideas and explain their thinking process and how they approached a question in an open and safe environment. By regularly attending tutoring, students faster their communications skills so that they feel more comfortable sharing their ideas in a classroom setting. By students feeling comfortable sharing their thoughts it means that they are more likely to participate in class discussions or debates and that they are able to colloborate with others, when working in group projects.

Tutoring helps students to develop confidence in their abilities and to handle making mistakes. When a student makes a mistake in their tutorial session, they are able to stay motivated as they understand that making mistakes is a crucial part of the learning process. By tutors helping students to understand where they went wrong, it can help the students build resilience and gain confidence in tehir ability, when they answer a question tehy previously answered incorrectly, correctly. Students may feel more comfortable, making mistakes in a tutorial setting, as they know the tutor will support them and not judge them. They may be inclined to attempt questions they wouldn’t attempt at school as they don’t want to embarass themselves incase they get the wrong answer. Therefore, tutoring will help students build up their confidence.

Ashley Cohen