My student only wants to do in-person lessons. What should I do?
Written by Daphne Lim - Updated
Sometimes, a student / parent may request you by accident thinking that you do in-person tutoring, or are hoping that you will make an exception. Your FIRST point of business should be to try to continue with the student:
- Consider doing in-person tutoring. You can charge customers a travel fee.
- If you'd like more advice on how to tutor in-person, here are some tips
However, if you are adamant on doing online tutoring, here are some ways you can try to convince your customers to try online tutoring:
- Mention that you are happy and available to take them on
- Reiterate why you think you’d really be able to help them and are a great fit
- Suggest doing the trial session online and see how they find it (it is free after all!)
- Mention that you’ve run online classes before and know how to make it effective
- Remind them that online tutoring is very different from online lockdown classes, ie. students can’t really fly under the radar or tune out if they’re the only one in the class, and they’ll still be getting 100% of the tutor’s attention
- Let them know that working online is much more convenient for them and you, saving travel time which is especially valuable in later years
Ultimately, some students are just set on doing face-to-face. In that case, message #help on Slack or email contact@kisacademics.com for a tutor swap and we’ll help you out.
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