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Tutoring vs. Academic Coaching

	Academic Coaching	Tutoring
Time Management	Your coach will help you develop a schedule that meets all of your responsibilities – and won't take up all of your time.	A tutor will recommend you manage your time better, and at most will give you some pointers.
Poor Test Scores	Your coach gives you methods that work with your strengths to improve your test scores and study better across all your courses.	A tutor will focus on the material of ONE particular course you are having trouble with, not on your overall studying and testing skills.
Ability to Focus	Your coach will train you to stay sharply focused in class and while studying or doing homework.	A tutor will make up for a lack of focus through repetition of material.
Assimilation of Course Material	Your coach will teach you methods to retain more information, including mnemonic devices, and ways to maximize your learning style for each course you take.	A tutor will generally go over material with you in different ways until you comprehend it.
Note-Taking Skills	Your coach will work with your particular style of learning, and take the time to find out how your instructors tend to present information to teach you an effective note-taking system.	It's unlikely a tutor will spend too much time on this issue, beyond making a few recommendations.

A Case Study

Academic Coaching and tutoring are two very different services, designed to accomplish different goals in the same arena. Unfortunately many students, and parents of students, who feel they need extra help to pull their grades up to the levels they desire, waste money by hiring a different tutor for each subject that needs extra attention. Academic Coaching is a single service alternative that takes a big picture approach to a student's education, rather than focusing in on one particular area of study.

Where tutoring is an expensive, time consuming and highly specialized solution, Academic Coaching provides a cost-effective, low time-cost, holistic approach. Instead of seeing each problem course as a distinct disease, Academic Coaching views the low grades in those courses as symptoms of deeper, more general problems, and then targets those big picture issues.

Tutoring in, for example, grade 11 biology, will cover only the subject matter of a grade 11 biology course. At best, a student who is tutored in grade 11 biology will take away some skills that allow her to have an easier time in grade 12 biology that she otherwise would have. With Academic Coaching, that same student, by spending just an hour each week with her coach, could learn how to changer her overall habits, including:

Note-taking
Mnemonic devices
Time management
Knowledge assimilation through reading, listening, practicing
Studying skills

These new improvements on her approach to learning will increase her performance not only in biology, but across the board, and well into the future, no matter what program of study she pursues in the years to come.

There may be times when tutoring is necessary, even in conjunction with Academic Coaching. If a university student doing an arts major is excelling in all his classes, except for his one required science elective, it may be wise for him to hire a tutor. But if any student wishes to improve their overall quality of scholastic life, Academic Coaching is the best way to fine-tune the root behaviour that affects learning.