Tutor's first experience: It is not easy to achieve a "profession"

Work 4 hours a day, there is a car transfer, a monthly salary of 20,000, there are five insurances and one gold, such a job you are excited? But in fact, the content of this job is to accompany children to learn and play, and the objects of daily contact are the elderly, employers, and children.

This profession, which looks like a "nanny", is a niche profession that often appears in foreign film and television works and emerges in China - full-time tutoring.

After returning from graduating from overseas famous universities, Yang Xingyue became such a tutor, and when she really did it, everything was not as bright and simple as it seemed. Making scientific study plans, travel plans, constantly charging themselves in their leisure time, and continuous high-intensity attention for children have made Yang Xingyue realize that this career is not easy.

Subsequently, she began to use the id "Yang Qianyu" to post a video on the b station to tell netizens the story behind this profession.

The entry experience is not as simple as it seems

Yang Xingyue is an authentic Sichuan girl, who entered a second college in Sichuan after failing the college entrance examination, majoring in teacher-training English education. But she has always had a dream of a prestigious school in her heart, and she did not accept defeat and honed herself madly in college, and finally got her admission letter from the University of Edinburgh.

Yang Xingyue's graduate major is tesol (teaching english to speakers of other languages), which mainly teaches those whose native language is not English to learn English.

In July 2020, Yang Xingyue returned to China, and at that time, she was isolated and observed with her graduate students, "I originally wanted to return to China to teach English to college students, but my classmates received a high-end tutor invitation from her boss (current employer) by chance. After reading it, she felt that this request was simply tailor-made for me, so she encouraged me to 'rush it'." It was under such a coincidence that after three interviews with the boss, personnel and children, Yang Xingyue became a full-time tutor. The working hours are from 16:00 to 20:00, mainly waiting for the children to pick them up after class, and then go home, eat, go to class, and play together. Closed on Wednesdays and Fridays, we spend all day with our children on weekends.

Although it sounds like a simple matter of eating, drinking and having fun with people, Yang Xingyue told the Beijing Youth Daily reporter that it is actually not as simple as imagined, "Before I started working, I was very enthusiastic, but after contact, I was a little frustrated, because it was really not as easy as I thought." In particular, 4 hours of uninterrupted high-intensity attention to children, you need to observe the child's interest points, and then evaluate, but also pay attention to the safety of children, during this period is in a state of readiness. ”

Yang Xingyue said that at the beginning of that time, after 4 hours, she came home and the whole person was ruined. Coupled with the fact that the weekend is to accompany the children all day, after the weekend two-day shift, she feels that the whole person is seriously injured, "it is really not easy, and the most difficult point of this work is that it does not have a very clear commuting node, and the time point of work and rest is blurred."

At the beginning of the work, the characteristics of children are found in trial and error

Yang Xingyue only serves one family, responsible for two four- or five-year-old children, "The boss hopes that the children can grow up happily and healthily." It doesn't need this kid to be good at grades or to be proficient in everything, but he has to be good at it. Because with what they are good at, children will be very confident."

As children continue to grow, Yang Xingyue also needs to constantly formulate and improve her work schedule. "At first, I didn't know where children were more creative, so I would first set a general direction according to the parents' description, and then focus on daily companion observation." She will let the child try many different activities, such as singing, drawing, roller skating, etc., in a variety of experimental activities, observe them, guide them, and finally evaluate whether they are interested in these projects.

"The process is long, and it requires constant trial and error, then adjustment, and finally summarizing the child's state. I'll set a time frame for myself because you can't say that the child isn't interested in this, and you let him keep doing it. Slowly, Yang Xingyue found that the boss's eldest child was particularly interested in painting, and his perception of color and collocation were much more acute. Children are more gifted in language and movement, have special standards for English perception, pronunciation, etc., and are very good at imitating.

Daily Summary In addition to writing a weekly newspaper, write a daily newspaper

The schedule yang Xingyue made for the children involves living habits, social adaptability, language enlightenment and other aspects. At home, Yang Xingyue will let the children walk on top of their heads and train them through some very small things. She will also take them to the world's most advanced technology exhibitions, such as VR, to learn about the most cutting-edge technology products. But the most, or take children to get close to nature to play outdoors, go to the bunker, to climb the high and low frames, in the process of playing to learn to control their body's balance, strength, coordination and so on.

Love to play is the nature of children, Yang Xingyue has also encountered children resist learning, "Generally speaking, I think most of the reasons why children resist learning is that the difficulty of learning is not suitable for them, then you need to adjust the difficulty of learning, and use games to let them enter the state of learning again." ”

Because the two children's personalities are more internalized and do not express their emotions, this makes Yang Xingyue feel very weak. "Every time I go back on vacation and ask them if they want me, they say they don't want to, why do they want to miss you?" But while the children said that they didn't want Yang Xingyue, they would rush over to hug her and stick to her every time Yang Xingyue arrived home.

Yang Xingyue said with a smile that with more and more time, this career has brought her not only economic income, but also emotional entanglement.

There is no high or low in the profession, Yang Xingyue feels that there is not much difference between going to work and working in the company, in addition to writing weekly and monthly newspapers, she also requires herself to write a daily newspaper to record interesting things between her and children. She will also divide the weekly report into several sections: recent progress, assessment of the current situation of children, the cause of problems, etc., fixed into a template, which is also a direction she wants to standardize full-time tutors in the future.