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asked • 07/17/25

Sharing what I’ve learned and looking for advice!

Sharing what I’ve learned and looking for advice!


Hey everyone,


I’m Jake, a new Wyzant tutor in Denver, Colorado. I just completed my first month of full-time tutoring on the platform and wanted to share some thoughts in case they’re helpful for those just starting out – and also get some advice from more experienced tutors here!


I tutor high school math (Algebra to Calculus - space waves), and a little SAT/ACT prep. I’ve tutored informally in college, but this is the first time I’ve done this on a regular, paid basis – and honestly, it’s been a great experience so far.


Challenges I’ve faced:


Some students drop out after just 1-2 sessions. I’m not sure if it’s motivation or if I’m not meeting expectations.


I started low to attract students, but now I'm wondering when and how to increase the price without turning off prospective students.


I have a very bright middle schooler who loses focus between classes. Do you have any tips for managing that?


How do you encourage students to commit to regular classes, especially when they don't have a clear deadline like an upcoming test?


Do you have any strategies for keeping younger students engaged in online classes?


I'd love to hear from you. Honestly, the Wyzant community seems like a very supportive place, and I'm grateful to be a part of it.


Thanks in advance,

Jake R.

Math Tutor | Denver, CO

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The danger of teaching today is charging above 25 dollars an hour despite having a doctoral status. Demographic profiles indicate that Pacific Rim people regard 15 dollars an hour; you have to look at the culture of Asians--Chinese companies pay you under the scale of metropolitan New York, San Franciscan, and Chicago. C'est la Vie!
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10/29/25

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I find that middle-schoolers lose focus, comprehension, motivation, and must be baby-fed and lack skills of critical thinking. They are bored; they are jaded; they are sloths. You make money by entertainment through Vlp.com.
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10/30/25

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The distracted student suffers from too many external stimuli and needs physical, mental, and social blinders. Take physical distraction for example. A hungry child focuses on food; a thirsty child focuses on drinks; a tired child focuses on sleep; a handicapped or diseased child focuses on the organic problem; that child needs a specialist or technician. Mental distraction are cultural. External pressures include war, bombs blasts, buildings. burned, screaming children screeching from napalm, limbless people linger in tented medical centers as hospitals lie torched as drones fly above, traumatic troubled teens tense up in cynical mental alienation as artificial intellectual machines manufactured machined produce false fictions of fun, fame, and fantasy, and women weep as the values of legacy. morality, and ethos wither up like a rotten apple.

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Another reason students loses interest is overwhelming anxiety, depression, guilt, and psychological stress disorder and fear of the survivor among troubled young children, teenagers whose family members cannot accept, listen to, or identify in times of a moral, poltical, and social unrest, disruption, and misinformation, or deception.
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11/09/25

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Another source of depression, anxiety, poor impulse control is a person's lack of planning, organization, lack of confidence, self-concept or self-esteem that leads to late deadlines, inability to function and pay utility bills, pay the rent, mortgage bills, file one's taxes. make doctors' appointments, or complete projects or self-guard one's identity against fraud, grifters, conartists or malvolent tricksters. The anxious, confused person need to meditage in tranquity, a positive attitude, develop positive habits, on the fellowship with other, and journal each day to establish a variety of better habits, as well as a spirit of gratitude in the present.
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02/27/26

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Depression is based in fear, anxiety, stress, psychic trauma, cognitive dissonance, low esteem, or the effects of drugs, and counter-interactions of drugs, or misinterpretations of reality, and delusional ideation.
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06/21/26

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I think the majority of student who drop the scheduled lessons they have contracted with Wyzant for the online platform is a problem today because of boredom, disappointment that the tutor is supplying answers quickly enough to solve a generalized malaise, anxiety, or lack of trust in the on-line tutor that he/she does not relay the correct answers or cannot provide complete solutions to complex problems when there are no answers in life to philosophical problems. For example, if a advanced literature student wants to write a quality literary analysis on Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" the tutor asks the college senior to explain the title of the play and asks that student to come up with a brainstorm--list of possible answers, the student relies on AI or Artificial Intelligence to come back with a simple, nonsense response, the tutor is frustrated. She asks the student to spend 5 minutes explaining the process of brainstorming, and the tutor insists in spending a minimum of twenty minutes for making a list, forming a cluster, drawing subtopics graphically, or using the five interrogatives: Who? Where? What? When? and How? The student is bored and quickly loses interest; then he/she quits. In other cases, the student cannot spend enough time because the paper is due the next day. This student gets angry because he or she has copied word for word material without citations. The tutor rejects the text; the parent insults the teacher calling her "woke." There is no defense to tis insult. Copying AI is "woke." There is only one way to be "woke." That is to cheat.
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The students who have low tolerances for unstated or suggested irony or sarcasm often take offense when they become frustrated by coded overt signs or literary allusions, subtle memes nuances, or non-verbal gestures like a character's smirks, rolling his/her eyes, or when the protagonist grins sheepishly. These students are not successful readers, for these students lack confidence, imagination, and creativity, thinking outside the box.
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