Characteristics of Effective Tutors

● Patient and open-minded

● Flexible instruction - more than one approach to literacy

● Interested in the tutee’s success

● Honest and trustworthy

● Positive; encouraging

● Creative

Characteristics of ineffective tutors

● Critical

● Quick to judge

● Inflexible - use method that is not tutee’s preference

● Talks down to the tutee

● Moves too quickly through lesson/material