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Tutor Duties, Skills & Responsibilities: a Guide for Employers

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When hiring Tutors, it’s important to properly describe the job opening with the duties, skills and responsibilities of the role. We’ve compiled a guide to Tutor Duties, Skills & Responsibilities using data from actual job postings on Indeed.

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Popular Tutor Duties and Skills

Here are some commonly found skills and other specifications in job postings for Tutors.

Communication skills

  • Definition : Experience or skill effectively exchanging and understanding information, verbally or in writing.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 4-5
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 89.5% of Tutor job postings on Indeed.

Teaching

  • Definition : Skill or experience teaching or instructing others, typically students in a classroom setting. May occur in person or via remote modes of communication.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 8.6% of Tutor job postings on Indeed.

Tutoring

  • Definition : Skill or experience providing customized assistance to students looking to improve comprehension of a particular subject. Implies specialized knowledge of the material being studied.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 1-2
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 1.9% of Tutor job postings on Indeed.

Special education

  • Definition : Knowledge of or experience with providing educational instruction and support to children and youth with developmental disabilities.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 3
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.3% of Tutor job postings on Indeed.

Classroom experience

  • Definition : Experience in a classroom setting. Typically required for teachers and educators.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 2-3
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.3% of Tutor job postings on Indeed.

Childcare

  • Definition : Skill or experience providing care and supervision for children while also providing them with educational development.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 0-1
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.2% of Tutor job postings on Indeed.

Experience with children

  • Definition : Experience interacting with children in a variety of roles, functions, and environments.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 0-1
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.1% of Tutor job postings on Indeed.

Experience working with students

  • Definition : Experience working with students in an educational capacity, such as teaching or tutoring.
  • Years of experience most commonly required: 0-1
  • How common is it? This skill is found in 0.1% of Tutor job postings on Indeed.
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