The art of tutor matching
There is a bit of art and a bit of science that goes into matching students with tutors. The match between the tutor and the student is important because a positive match helps results come faster. There are a number of factors that go into why this is true, but the most important is that a student is comfortable enough to ask questions and drop his/her defensiveness around not knowing a subject, and is therefore willing to try and risk making mistakes. A student who is uncomfortable with the tutor will not go there, or will go there reluctantly (which is really like not going there at all).

The key is to find tutors who have that balance between mature enough to set firm boundaries and young (our youthful in spirit) enough to relate to what the student is going through. We focus on finding a team of these types of tutors, and then match them with the students who we think they will "gel" with. It is a bit of an art, but when you do it all day long, you get good at it.

One reason many kids do not do well in school is because they don't develop any rapport or relationship with their teachers. They can't pick their teachers, and to some extent it is a good learning experience to get past a poorly matched teacher. However, when this happens, the student can be turned off of the subject matter, and even school in general. A tutor can help re-open a student's opinion about a subject and school, by bringing both clear explanations and the human element back to the subject.