Wassup!
If you are my family or friend then you may know that I work in a tuition centre, and if you don't then yes I do work in a tuition centre on Saturdays but no big deal. It is not a lot of hours of work but I have been working enough time to provide a little description for anyone interested. Before I keep writing I would like to thank and give a shout out to Zee and Fatz (Zainia and Fatima) who are the "Tom and Jerry" at work for inspiring me to write this.
1. Setting Up
This is a community centre, which means that staff have set up their own tables and chairs for teaching. So you go a little early and help out setting up the workplace. The layout is the same, 12 tables with 6 chairs each and 4-6 tables for spellings, mental maths, marking, etc. I must say this is the tiring part and also a little disadvantageous compared to some other centres. It is the worst when there are no male staff around to help and the females have to struggle unfolding and turning over heavy tables and the tables are huge, after all you are going to have 6 students per table.
2. Teaching
I have been fortunate enough to have the experience of the teaching role and homework marking role, which I will expand in point 3. This centre does maths and English and staff can pick their preferred subject. I went for maths because I love teaching maths. Most students should know the procedure that they should swap homework (take new one home for next week and hand in last week's homework) but sometimes they need a reminder and your role is to ensure they are doing that first thing when they arrive. Then they start their classwork and the teacher's role is to help them when they struggle and mark their work once they are finished and provide feedback to them. A really good procedure they have is that students are motivated by rewarding them with stickers and prizes, sweets, etc.
3. Marking Work
As I mentioned in the previous point, I have also had the experience to work with the marking team. It is not really a team because only 2 people are in charge, 1 per subject. I am currently responsible for maths homework marking. In here you and your partner (English homework marking person) have your own table and all the students will bring you their previous week's homework. You count the number of work they present and if there are more or less than expected then you make a note of that and find out the reason behind missing homework. Maybe you are wondering what kind of homework am I talking about? Well, students of this centre get homework of their own (not from school) and are expected to complete it for the following week. Once all (or most of them) received, you start marking them and at the bottom write how well they did (marks or no. of mistakes). It is a lot of work so obviously other staff are instructed to help us if they can and few people do help. When it is almost ending time, you finish the work you are in and divide them by what is marked and what is not and that is taken by the managers to prepare for the following Saturday. It does get a bit hectic when students come back asking for their folders (that has homework inside) and then putting it back and be aware that there are a lot of students (at least 60-70 students).
4. Calling the day off
Most students have finished their work and so have teachers and other staff. Then the students' works have to be packed up and put in to place so the managers can take them home for preparation of following week. Again, the damn heavy tables and chairs have to be packed up back to the store room. Someone has to do sweeping up the floor and there is a rota for that. At the end, a final short meeting takes place where feedback is given about the day by either the staff or the managers and information about any changes in the future or praises because everyone is amazing and works really hard.
After all, I really enjoy working with little children and gives me experience of the working world. Please share this with anyone who would benefit from this information, wanting to work in a tuition centre. How is your workplace? Let me know below!
Yours, Nafiza
If you are my family or friend then you may know that I work in a tuition centre, and if you don't then yes I do work in a tuition centre on Saturdays but no big deal. It is not a lot of hours of work but I have been working enough time to provide a little description for anyone interested. Before I keep writing I would like to thank and give a shout out to Zee and Fatz (Zainia and Fatima) who are the "Tom and Jerry" at work for inspiring me to write this.
1. Setting Up
This is a community centre, which means that staff have set up their own tables and chairs for teaching. So you go a little early and help out setting up the workplace. The layout is the same, 12 tables with 6 chairs each and 4-6 tables for spellings, mental maths, marking, etc. I must say this is the tiring part and also a little disadvantageous compared to some other centres. It is the worst when there are no male staff around to help and the females have to struggle unfolding and turning over heavy tables and the tables are huge, after all you are going to have 6 students per table.
2. Teaching
I have been fortunate enough to have the experience of the teaching role and homework marking role, which I will expand in point 3. This centre does maths and English and staff can pick their preferred subject. I went for maths because I love teaching maths. Most students should know the procedure that they should swap homework (take new one home for next week and hand in last week's homework) but sometimes they need a reminder and your role is to ensure they are doing that first thing when they arrive. Then they start their classwork and the teacher's role is to help them when they struggle and mark their work once they are finished and provide feedback to them. A really good procedure they have is that students are motivated by rewarding them with stickers and prizes, sweets, etc.
3. Marking Work
As I mentioned in the previous point, I have also had the experience to work with the marking team. It is not really a team because only 2 people are in charge, 1 per subject. I am currently responsible for maths homework marking. In here you and your partner (English homework marking person) have your own table and all the students will bring you their previous week's homework. You count the number of work they present and if there are more or less than expected then you make a note of that and find out the reason behind missing homework. Maybe you are wondering what kind of homework am I talking about? Well, students of this centre get homework of their own (not from school) and are expected to complete it for the following week. Once all (or most of them) received, you start marking them and at the bottom write how well they did (marks or no. of mistakes). It is a lot of work so obviously other staff are instructed to help us if they can and few people do help. When it is almost ending time, you finish the work you are in and divide them by what is marked and what is not and that is taken by the managers to prepare for the following Saturday. It does get a bit hectic when students come back asking for their folders (that has homework inside) and then putting it back and be aware that there are a lot of students (at least 60-70 students).
4. Calling the day off
Most students have finished their work and so have teachers and other staff. Then the students' works have to be packed up and put in to place so the managers can take them home for preparation of following week. Again, the damn heavy tables and chairs have to be packed up back to the store room. Someone has to do sweeping up the floor and there is a rota for that. At the end, a final short meeting takes place where feedback is given about the day by either the staff or the managers and information about any changes in the future or praises because everyone is amazing and works really hard.
After all, I really enjoy working with little children and gives me experience of the working world. Please share this with anyone who would benefit from this information, wanting to work in a tuition centre. How is your workplace? Let me know below!
Yours, Nafiza
Hey nafiza,
ReplyDeleteWow that's amazing you work in tuition centre. I do to on Saturdays. It is so hectic as students keeps on coming and we have to teach them maths English or science I mostly teach maths. At the end we have to clear up as well but because it a owned classroom, we don't put away tables etc. We have about 6 chicken on each table and about 5 tables. It buzy but worth it because I love thag somone is getting benefited by my knowledge!
Love your blog,
Keep up the good work :)
Exaclty! All the hard work pays off when students are benefiting from your service :D
Deletei want a jobbb thereeee
ReplyDeleteHaha you might be lucky because they need more people ;)
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