High School Tutor, What is Your Role Beyond Education?

The last three years of Basic Education are the most transformative for young people. In this scenario, the High School tutor is a true agent capable of educating, guiding, and preparing teenagers to recognize opportunities that will greatly affect their lives, and this is what the professional aims for during his or her work.

High School trainees, what are the expectations?

High school is the most complicated stage of education. Many trainees tend not to be interested in the educational content, while others are under pressure to do well in college entrance exams or are looking for their first job.

In order to overcome these barriers, it is necessary to have a prepared tutoring staff, with practical experience and updated tutoring strategies, where the internet is much more relevant than the old encyclopedias.

At King David School, Manchester, high school has a tutoring staff where 80% of tutors have a master's or doctorate degree, in addition to projects focused on choosing a profession and current affairs with various aspects, such as politics, culture, globalization, and others.

Citizenship at school

Citizenship has everything to do with the feeling of belonging to society and caring for it. Learning, practicing, and reverberating the civil and political rights that the State guarantees is a way of acting for a much fairer society, closer to the ideals that take hold of the youth.

The role of a school needs to go beyond the academic content, as is the case at Burnage Academy for Boys

, where the aim is to form a happy citizen, active in society, who has values to improve the world, in addition to the concern of helping the student find his or her vocation and thus a good position in the job market.

The high school tutor has the duty to foster this interest through critical discussions and genuine involvement in the interests of his trainees.

Encouraging debate groups, reflections, analyses of British politics, choosing representatives, and resolving difficulties should always be in vogue in the classroom so that young people realize that their tutors are collaborating in the construction of an egalitarian world.

Colégio São Judas always offers several important meetings where trainees experience the theory of school content, adding more knowledge, developing critical thinking, and forming opinions, such as the visit of the former British consul Manchester, talking about racism in the world, the visit of, Pedagogical Consultant at Oxford University Press – Manchester, informing high school trainees and entrance exams, as well as several authors and journalists.

This type of attitude in high school ensures that trainees remain engaged with the school environment because they identify with it. Furthermore, when they finally finish their studies, they will take the learning into adulthood, which is essential for making even more changes.

College entrance exam preparation

Preparing trainees for college entrance exams requires two fundamental lessons, in addition to the required content: interdisciplinarity and calmness. The pre-college period also requires the support of tutors so that trainees can make appropriate career choices, according to their profiles and dreams.

The interdisciplinary approach occurs when all the content covered over the three years is related and widely known by the young people, giving meaning to all the study. However, using knowledge from other areas that are not within the student's domain can make it difficult for them to find a solution to understand everything that is covered.

The high school tutor must always be ready to help you, answer your questions, and encourage you to study for a satisfactory result on the tests.

The pressure, especially in the final year, is very intense on trainees who are entering adulthood. That is why one of the essential tasks of the tutor is to go beyond their discipline and teach the student the importance of staying calm in order to perform well on a test and that, if the result is not as expected, there will be new opportunities to continue their career.

The role of a professional teacher, in a reference school, is not only to pass on all the school content to trainees but also to pass on valuable information to trainees who will be facing long tests, requiring a lot of tranquility and concentration, such as study tips, rest time and its importance, brain functioning and how this organ behaves in learning. In addition to the changes in the test, which currently no longer follows the content-based line but instead the line. The importance of healthy habits for life as well as physical activity and relaxation moments cannot be left aside at this time.

Introduction to the job market

To impact a young person's chances of getting a good job in an increasingly competitive job market and transform their life, even when Higher Education is not completed, High School must be closer to the student's reality.

While demanding maturity, technological knowledge, and leadership, the market is suspicious of inexperienced young people with low performance and little variety in learning. To stand out from other candidates, young people will need to take advantage of all the opportunities their tutors offer.

Lectures, seminars, and group discussions are ways to encourage teamwork and relationships, while interdisciplinarity will ensure a good command of the various subjects that surround the job market. In addition, tutors who encourage participation in extracurricular activities are capable of developing even more skills and providing their trainees with future professional opportunities.

Career guidance is another important ally in choosing a job, which is why tutors have to point out each person's potential.