Would you pay a young person to tutor your primary child if they had no professional teaching experience or even teaching assistant experience?

[ItsmeLu]

The person is the daughter of someone I know and as a very experienced primary teacher I am now honestly reconsidering if I should begin tutoring in addition to my 4 day a week teaching job or whether parents are not concerned with the tutor having experience of teaching pedagogy and curriculum. She is advertising at £15 per hour. I would charge £25-30 per hour. Thoughts please 😊

I’d happily pay a young person to
tutor my younger child if they needed it just to
boost confidence. As a TA working with younger children I’ve charged more than you suggest when parents have wanted me to support with reading and phonics because they don’t want to so it themselves. One of my now
adult children was very good
at helping his
cousins learn and practice concepts they were struggling with at school and would have been worth paying. I
would pay more
for a qualified
teacher to get my child through the 11+ or if
they needed extra help
to get through a core GCSE subject. I would have higher expectations of results from a qualified teacher and would
pay accordingly in recognition of their experience of successful
tutoring.

I tutored when I was a university student with a a subject specialism. Generally, a-level and GCSE for which I learnt the curriculum/exam/mark scheme and kept up to
date. I worked with an agency that charged 50% but had clients who paid a lot.

I was good at teaching as long as we worked well together - if not then I moved on. My USP was bored/disinterested but capable rich kids. People who spent 6 hours a day staring out the window (genuine quote from one kid who will now be in their 30s) at their £30k a year school. Got quite a few from C/Ds to As but my main value add was getting them to engage with exams as a sort of game that you can win by putting the smallest effort in just the right places. I’d done quite a lot of science communication courses and volunteering beforehand but no formal teacher training.

I’ve volunteered in schools - real teaching is 100,000x harder. I’d say go for it! All my school teachers used to tutor after school.