Become a Professional Tutor
Certification is optional, but certified tutors can charge higher rates.
What’s in the Course
Tutoring Fees
Get Certified
Tutor Screening
What's in the Course
Session 1
This one-hour session covers the following:
✓ Why become a private tutor?
✓ Business license
✓ Bank account & taxes
✓ Insurance
✓ Equipment and supplies
✓ Other deductible expenses
Session 2
This two-hour session covers the following:
What To Charge
✓ What’s competitive in your area
✓ How to explain your rate
✓ How to legally vary your rate—if you want to
Effective Marketing
✓ Marketing materials
✓ Direct marketing techniques
✓ Indirect marketing
Session 3
This two-hour session covers the following:
✓ Pick the right students
✓ Pick the best parents
✓ Create a tutoring agreement
✓ Explain the parent’s role
✓ What parents should and should not do
✓ Use the “road map” if they want to stop too soon
Tutoring Fees
Every tutor is an independent business person, so each sets their own hourly rate.
Tutors trained in an Orton-Gillingham-based system, like the Barton Rading & Spelling System, are rare. So their hourly rates can be quite high.
The hourly rate will be higher in metropolitan areas, and lower in more rural areas.
The hourly rate will be higher if the tutor is certified than if the tutor is not.
To find out the hourly rate in your area, call some tutors and ask. I recommend you ask all of the following questions.
Your Path to Certification
After taking at least two students through the first three levels of the program,
you may be eligible to register and become a Certified Barton Tutor.
Certification is optional, but Certified Barton tutors can charge higher rates.
Certification dates are announced in our monthly newsletter.
Beginning Certification
Levels 1-3
Start your tutoring journey by mastering the foundational levels.
Requirements:
Own Single Tutor Levels 1, 2 and 3
Tutor a minimum of two students through Levels 1, 2 and 3 within the last year
Own the required equipment
Advanced Certification
Levels 4-6
Expand your expertise to help students with more complex patterns.
Requirements:
Complete Beginning Certification
Own Single Tutor Levels 4, 5 and 6
Tutor a minimum of two students through Levels 4, 5 and 6
Master Certification
Levels 7-10
Achieve the highest level of expertise in the Barton Reading & Spelling System.
Requirements:
Complete Advanced Certification
Own Single Tutor Levels 7, 8, 9 and 10
Tutor a minimum of two students through Levels 7, 8, 9 and 10
Tutor Screening
Can I be a Tutor?
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Become a Tutor
Designed for parents, volunteers, and new tutors. Trusted by professionals, Learning Specialists, Educational Therapists, Speech-Language Therapists, and private-practice tutors.
⚠️ You don’t need to be a strong reader or speller. Many tutors are dyslexic and even improve their own spelling as they teach.
⚠️ You must hear sounds extremely well, because strong auditory skills are essential to catch and correct mistakes.
⚠️ Your student must pass the 10-minute Student Screening.
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Tutor Screening
You Passed
You did NOT Pass
Select from the following options
Improve your ability to hear sounds
Find a friend to tutor your student
Find someone willing to tutor your student, such as a neighbor, friend, or relative. Have them take the 5-minute Tutor Screening. If they pass, you can obtain the Barton Reading & Spelling System for them and have them tutor your student.
Hire a Barton Tutor
Hire a certified Barton Tutor locally or online.
Here are some questions to ask a prospective Tutor.
Contact us for a list of Certified Barton Tutors in your area.
Bright Solutions for Dyslexia, Inc.
Publisher of the Barton Reading & Spelling System.
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