Regular feedbacks - how often?
Hi Tutors, how often do you give the regular feedbacks with the Preply function?
And to students, how often do you get or want to get feedbacks from your tutors?
I joined Preply since February. At the beginning, I was working on the regular feedbacks every month, every time when Preply sent me messages to send the students feedbacks.
But nowadays I’m having around 25 students to manage and starting to feel that I am working too much for the money I am receiving. I’m not giving feedbacks every month anymore to the students from who I get only a few euros more than minimum wage in my city (Central Europe).
It depends on students, but usually I feel comfortable to give feedback after 10-15 lessons. I can see their progress clearly so I’m confident to praise their progress. At the same time I understand more about what are they struggling with and can offer some solutions. And also build the lesson plans for coming months.
I care about my students progress so if my extra work would be more valued then I would love to do it. I’m willingly doing it with new students who pays me more.
To make one feedback, I need to check back the notes and lessons plans. And it really takes quite a lot of energy by thinking back how did we tackle each grammatical points and activities, how were they, the progress, the difficulties and put all these things into words. Forming the sentences in a language that students prefer is also a task. I love languages but it doesn’t mean I can do it easily. Finishing one feedback takes usually 1-2 hours. So of course it’s impossible to give every students every month’s feedbacks. And I’m even feeling sometimes I don’t wanna do it for some students because I’m afraid of that they ask me more and more.
I wanna know how tutors deal with regular feedbacks and the students expectations for tutors. Tutors, how many time do you spend on it and do you think it’s important factor in tutoring?
Thanks in advance! :)