{"id":1549,"date":"2017-08-09T16:35:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T16:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/s37407.p1377.sites.pressdns.com\/resources\/tutoring-certifications-101\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T22:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T22:16:03","slug":"tutoring-certifications-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/tutoring-certifications-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutoring certifications 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have a degree, the latest supplies, and you&rsquo;ve spent hundreds of dollars in advertising. You know you&rsquo;re the best <a href=\"https:\/\/www.care.com\/tutoring-jobs\">tutor<\/a>. So why do you need more certification?<\/p><p>We&rsquo;ll tell you why: Because the people who are hoping to find a tutor expect candidates to have specialized training.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where to start<\/h2><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Two great places&nbsp;where you can&nbsp;get professional home-tutor certification are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntatutor.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Tutoring Association<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americantutoringassociation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Tutoring Association<\/a>. On these sites, which offer varying levels of tutor certification, you&rsquo;ll often find online courses that allow you to study on your own for a final exam.<\/li><li>If you plan to work with college-level students, try the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crla.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">College Reading &amp; Learning Association<\/a>.<\/li><li>Hundreds of colleges and universities offer on-campus or online tutor certification as well. Higher-level courses explore more advanced topics, such as diversity training, strategies for dealing with troubled students and parents, and progressive teaching methods.<\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-cost-of-certification\"><strong>Cost of certification<\/strong><\/h2><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Getting certified by an organization will cost between $200 and $500.<\/li><li>The cost of a college- or university-level certification will differ depending on the cost of courses.<\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-advantages-of-being-certified\"><strong>The advantages of being certified<\/strong><\/h2><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Certification will, of course, make you a better tutor.<\/li><li>It will also make you stand out from the thousands of other people marketing themselves as home tutors.<\/li><li>Parents feel more comfortable when they know their children are getting the very best professional attention.<\/li><li>When you have the home-tutor certification, you&nbsp;will feel confident in your ability to deal with even the toughest students.<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have a degree, the latest supplies, and you&#8217;ve spent hundreds of dollars in advertising. You know you&#8217;re the best tutor. So why do you need more certification? We&#8217;ll tell you why: Because the people who are hoping to find a tutor expect candidates to have specialized training. Where to start Two great places&nbsp;where you <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/tutoring-certifications-101\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":790,"featured_media":57885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"enable_toc":false,"care_reviewed_by":0,"care_post_updated_flag":true,"care_updated_date":"2022-01-24 00:00:00","last_update":"2017-08-09","view_count":38908,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1086],"member-type":[5],"vertical":[10,6,15],"platform":[2],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tutoring-pros","member-type-provider","vertical-child-care-tutoring-careers","vertical-children","vertical-money-work","platform-resources"],"acf":[],"created":"2009-04-20","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215456,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/215456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"member-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member-type?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"platform","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/platform?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}