Throughout your entire high school career your main goal is to develop a portfolio that will impress college admission boards. The development of an impressive portfolio will need to include good grades, sports and valuable extracurricular activities. The extracurricular activities is where you can use tutoring.
There are several ways you can use tutoring to enhance the value of your portfolio and to excite college admission boards. The first way is to use tutors to help you develop a unique or advanced skill set. For example, you can take language lessons, music lessons or advanced math or science lessons.
Another way that you can impress college admission boards is to start your own tutoring business. Having your own tutoring business will show that you have initiative, that you are responsible and that you are industrious. These are all traits that are required to do well in college.
The third way to impress college admission boards is to volunteer as a tutor for your peers. Peer tutoring is a great way to earn points for philanthropy. It is also a great way to demonstrate your ability to apply what you have learned in high school to a real world situation. Again, these are the skills that colleges are looking for.
If you are not sure what colleges are looking for then it is a good idea to talk with them. Colleges open their doors to new applicants during most of the school year. You can set up an interview and a tour of a campus. These meetings will help you to both find a college that you are interested in, as well as to figure out what you need to do to be accepted into the school of your choice.
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Tutoring services can come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. If you are a senior in high school this year then one of your graduating requirements is most likely going to be a community service project. If you have tutored in the past then consider meeting the requirements of this project by developing a tutoring club for students. This service will be offered free to students in your school or to students in local schools.
To set up a tutoring club you will need to talk to your student adviser. They will help you establish the framework for the club and the rules for offering your services to other students. They can also help you to find students to tutor.
Because this is a project for credit you will want to focus your tutoring services on a specific demographic of students. This will help you to evaluate the value of your community services. For example, you can target students in the special education program or you can target students that have been identified as “at-risk.”
After you have a focus for your tutoring club you will want to determine who you want to be tutors in your club. Usually you won’t have to do your senior community service project on your own, so you will have a group of students to work with. When selecting your project group pick students that have the ability to tutor other students.
Next, put together an outline for you project. This outline will highlight who you will be tutoring, when you will be tutoring and what subjects you will be tutoring. You can use this outline to help you write your final report. In your report remember to explain why you selected the parameters for your project and what need you are meeting with your services.
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