Privacy
Privacy goes both ways when there is a tutor-tutee relationship. This relationship is based on respect and understanding between the tutor and tutee. Considering your leadership role in this relationship as a tutor, you will be expected to encourage and enforce this rule. Sometimes your students will tell you a lot about their personal lives and will expect you to keep their confidentiality. Always make sure you prove them right. There is nothing more embarrassing for a student than to hear from his/her friends: “Oh your teacher told me this about you.” It is important to remember that your role is very special in a student’s life. They consider you very close and this can only benefit the teaching and learning process. Compromising this trust will bring confusion and possibly loss of a student for you. This is not desirable especially considering you will be working in an industry mostly advertised by word of mouth.
Privacy is an issue you should address in your first lesson with a student. Assure them that you will never use or distribute any information they provide for you and in the meantime, make them understand that this rule is valid for them too. They should know that privacy is a serious issue and should never compromise it. Explain to them that it is a natural way to show respect to people and they should always strive to be a trustworthy person. Often your students may gossip about someone else and try to get your opinion on an issue that is going on in their private life. You can be helpful, but never cross the fine line between help and interference. You can even directly tell them that they are the ones making decisions in their lives, you do not know the people they are talking about so you can make a judgment, and they should try to resolve personal issues on their own. Remember, you can respond but stay neutral.
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Privacy goes both ways when there is a tutor-tutee relationship. This relationship is based on respect and understanding between the tutor and tutee. Considering your leadership role in this relationship as a tutor, you will be expected to encourage and enforce this rule. Sometimes your students will tell you a lot about their personal lives and will expect you to keep their confidentiality. Always make sure you prove them right. There is nothing more embarrassing for a student than to hear from his/her friends: “Oh your teacher told me this about you.” It is important to remember that your role is very special in a student’s life. They consider you very close and this can only benefit the teaching and learning process. Compromising this trust will bring confusion and possibly loss of a student for you. This is not desirable especially considering you will be working in an industry mostly advertised by word of mouth.
Privacy is an issue you should address in your first lesson with a student. Assure them that you will never use or distribute any information they provide for you and in the meantime, make them understand that this rule is valid for them too. They should know that privacy is a serious issue and should never compromise it. Explain to them that it is a natural way to show respect to people and they should always strive to be a trustworthy person. Often your students may gossip about someone else and try to get your opinion on an issue that is going on in their private life. You can be helpful, but never cross the fine line between help and interference. You can even directly tell them that they are the ones making decisions in their lives, you do not know the people they are talking about so you can make a judgment, and they should try to resolve personal issues on their own. Remember, you can respond but stay neutral.
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