I found tutoring at my first teaching job and I fell in love with helping students in a one on one setting. Teaching is rewarding but I could never get as much accomplished with a full class as I could with tutoring. I found that in my 4 years I tutored I saw my students change and improve so much.

I've now been teaching for 9 years and I still use the strategies I used with some of those previous tutoring students in my busy classroom of 26 active 5th graders. As a teacher, sometime...