Become A Tutor

Since 1965, A 1 Certified Tutoring Service has been one of the best and most professional tutoring services serving the Greater New York City area. We wish to thank them for their invaluable ongoing assistance in helping us to locate and recruit new tutors.

Currently, we’re looking for teachers, tutors and articulate people who can give part or full-time lessons in Greater New York City or anywhere within area codes 212, 347, 516, 631, 646, 718, 845, 914 and 917.

Before you dismiss us as just another tutoring service, there are three important things you should know about us:

1.  All lessons are scheduled according to the preferences of the tutor and the family. After we tell a tutor about a new student, he calls up the family to discuss the problems which need to be solved. If he wants to come at 10:00 PM Wednesday or at 9:00AM Sunday, and the family agrees with the selection, then it’s always OK with us. In fact, most people can have lessons between 3:00PM and 11:00 PM Monday to Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday. In all cases, you choose the day and time you prefer.

2.  Private tutoring is very different than classroom instruction. The only requirements for successful tutoring are: knowing the course, clearly and articulately explaining it to the student and ending up with a student fully able to manage the course on his own. Since this is our main concern, we’re NOT interested in state certificates, city licenses, graduate degrees, fingerprints, lesson plans, etc, etc.  Our only goal is to have complete understanding of the course effectively pass from the teacher’s brain to the student’s. Therefore, it’s entirely possible to successfully tutor subjects and grades for which the teacher doesn’t possess licenses, certificates or degrees.

3.  The hardest part of running a tutoring service is finding enough students to tutor. Since most tutors have access to just one or two sources of students, they are forced to spend a lot time hoping and waiting for their schedules to fill up. We, on the other hand, have had over forty years experience during which we’ve cultivated many excellent sources of students. In fact, we’ve had to hire more tutors during the past few years to take care of the ever increasing demand for tutoring. So, if you’d like to get more students, we can definitely help you.

If you’re considering seeking a tutoring position with A 1 Certified Tutoring Service, it’s essential you set aside the time needed to read this entire document slowly, seriously, carefully and completely. In the past, many prospective tutors who came across this ad skimmed through it, called us up and asked us what they had to do to become a tutor with us. This is very discouraging to hear when all the answers sought are already in this listing. The reason this text is so long and time-consuming is we tried very hard to make it complete and give you all the details you’d need to make an informed decision about working with us. So, we ask you to give this entire document a very serious reading and hope you’ll decide to tutor for us.

Since 1965, A 1 Certified Tutoring Service has provided adult, experienced teachers for expert, one-to-one, home instruction. We help students, parents, educators and agencies overcome academic difficulties and excel in educational endeavors. Their teachers thoroughly test their students to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses, identify deficiencies holding them back and learn exactly which topics need to be taught. They maintain very high standards of professionalism to maximize their effectiveness and help their students realize their full potential.

As is true for A 1 Certified Tutoring Service, we also seek teachers, tutors and other articulate, intelligent people to explain academic subjects and tests at all grades, levels and tests to elementary, high school, college and adult students. For the past 40 years, almost 90% of all tutoring requests have been for lessons in one or more of the following four subject areas:

1.        Grammar school math (Grades 1 to 8)

2.       High school math (especially Elementary Algebra (Grade 9) and, to a lesser extent, Plane Geometry (Grade 10) and Intermediate Algebra and Trigonometry (Grade 11)

3.       Grammar school reading (Grades 1 to 8)

4.       High school science (especially Chemistry and Physics).

As is true of almost every other tutoring service in the country, we always need more tutors to handle the ever increasing number of students seeking effective tutoring help. We intend to actively recruit suitable people during the rest of 2007 as well as during all of 2008. We offer excellent pay and flexible hours for both full-time and part-time positions.

Yes, we DEFINITELY need and want tutors in ALL sections of Greater New York City (New York City, Long Island, Westchester and the Lower Hudson Valley). No, teaching licenses or certificates are NOT required. Due to the incredible ongoing demand for tutoring help, we’ll CERTAINLY hire many additional adult, articulate people to augment our tutoring staff now and in the future.

The following eight requirements must be met by EVERY applicant seeking to become one of our tutors:

1.        All applicants must have carefully read and completely understood the How To Become A Tutor With Certified Tutoring Service web page. This includes all six steps detailed on the web page as well as all the links you’ll find in those six steps.

2.       All applicants must submit an accurate, truthful and completely filled-out copy of the application described below.

3.       All applicants must either possess or be within one year of receiving an associates or bachelors degree (e.g., an A.A., B.S. or B.A. degree.) We may be able to accept a number of years of life experience in place of a college degree.

4.       All applicants must have a telephone interview with us to discuss their submitted application and their qualifications to be a teacher/tutor.

5.       Although neither owning nor driving a car is required, we give preference to candidates who are in possession of a car and are able to drive to lessons.

6.       Although neither teaching nor tutoring experience is required, we give definite preference to candidates who have had a number of years of such experience.

7.       All applicants must agree to tutor with us for at least one full calendar year.

8.       All applicants must agree to tutor for us ten or more hours per week.

If you’d like to become one of our tutors in Kings (Brooklyn), Bronx, New York (Manhattan), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island), Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess, Ulster or Sullivan Counties, you’ll find complete details by visiting the A 1 Certified Tutoring Service web site. If you go down a few lines from the top of the Home Page, you’ll find seven items. With your mouse, click on the 3. Become A Tutor link and you’ll be taken to the How To Become A Tutor With Certified Tutoring Service web page in which you'll find the six steps leading to becoming one of our tutors. Please read very carefully all six steps and all the links contained in them several times. After you've learned all about us, understand what’s involved in being a tutor with us and still want to be one of our tutors, go back to step five where you'll find the application you need to complete. Fill it out, click the SEND button at the bottom of the page and we'll call you up within a few days to arrange the time and date of an intensive telephone interview with you. If we find both your application and your interview to be of sufficiently high quality, we’ll immediately start referring students to you.

It’s important to realize our application is quite long, involved and comprehensive. In it, you’ll need to tell us about your personal background, what subjects, grades and tests you can and wish to teach, the zip codes to which you’ll agree to go to give lessons, your educational background and your employment history. In addition, you’ll need to answer four very important essay type questions which are designed to see how well you know and understand our basic principals and how articulately you can explain them. Indeed, for every ten people who begin filling out the application, only one actually completes and submits it. And, for every three people who actually submit completed applications to us, only one actually succeeds in becoming a tutor. So, don’t begin the arduous application process unless you seriously want to become one of our tutors.

As is the case with almost every tutor in the country, most of our tutors already have full time (9:00 AM - 3:00 PM) teaching jobs or full time (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM) office jobs. Our tutors are always free to simultaneously tutor for other services, work for other companies or take classes in school. If you have any questions after you’ve THOROUGHLY and COMPLETELY read the How To Become A Tutor With Certified Tutoring Service web page, you may phone us at (888) 321-9525. You may, if you wish, email us but don't forget to include your phone number in your message since we only respond to inquiries by telephone. Please DON’T include any attachments in your email; because of the acute threat of computer virus infections, we NEVER open and read them.

Remember, there are three items which MUST be successfully completed in order to become a tutor with A 1 Certified Tutoring Service®:

1)        All applicants MUST carefully read, understand and absorb the How To Become A Tutor With Certified Tutoring Service web page. This includes the contents of all six steps detailed on the web page as well as all the hyperlinks printed in blue ink and underlined.

2)       All applicants MUST submit an accurate, truthful, completely filled-out copy of our application after saving a printed-out copy for their records.

3)       All applicants MUST have an intensive telephone interview with us to discuss what they wrote on their application and their qualifications to become a teacher with our tutoring service.