Synonyms of tutoring

tutoring 1 of 2

noun

as in teaching

the act or process of imparting knowledge or skills to another

found his calling in the tutoring of children with special educational needs

Synonyms & Similar Words

• teaching
• education
• schooling
• instruction
• training
• tuition
• tutelage
• preparation
• development
• coaching
• pedagogy
• conditioning
• cultivation
• higher education
• improvement
• higher learning
• guidance
• pedagogics
• didactics
• readying
• direction
• enlightenment
• nurturing
• edification
• nurturance

tutoring

2 of 2

verb

present participle of tutor

1

as in educating

to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field

tutored me in Spanish

Synonyms & Similar Words

• teaching
• educating
• schooling
• training
• coaching
• instructing
• indoctrinating
• mentoring
• lecturing
• lessoning
• guiding
• preparing
• preaching
• drilling
• priming
• grounding
• homeschooling
• qualifying
• informing
• leading
• moralizing
• habilitating
• inculcating
• instilling
• introducing
• imparting (to)
• rearing
• retraining
• edifying
• directing
• catechizing
• enlightening
• implanting
• briefing
• fitting
• reteaching
• showing
• initiating
• familiarizing
• versing
• reschooling
• reeducating

2

as in guiding

to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed

bought a video series designed to tutor a person in the fine art of decorating cakes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• guiding
• coaching
• teaching
• mentoring
• showing
• counseling
• leading
• accompanying
• steering
• training
• shepherding
• walking through
• escorting
• informing
• piloting
• supervising
• engineering
• attending
• schooling
• convoying
• drilling
• directing
• seeing
• chaperoning
• instructing
• godfathering
• overseeing
• superintending
• briefing
• swaying
• enlightening
• fostering
• squiring
• inculcating
• nurturing
• indoctrinating
• cultivating

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tutoring

Noun

For Read Alliance, this is an important and celebrated – and supported – outcome of the tutoring experience. — Read Alliance, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Puder’s schools provide tutoring, mentoring and flexible scheduling for teens who may have jobs or are parents themselves. — Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 16 July 2026

Prosecutors had alleged Smith rubbed the Orland Park child’s back under his shirt, causing scratches, during their 14 tutoring sessions from December 2025 to January. — Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2026

Another controversy He has also been criticized by fellow board members for promoting his own math tutoring service to students in 2013. — Zuri Primos july 15, Kansas City Star, 15 July 2026

To be effective, human tutoring needs to meet certain criteria. — Gerald K. Letendre, The Conversation, 13 July 2026

Some of the best tutoring sites for freelancers include Wyzant, LessonFace, TutorOcean and Varsity Tutors. — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2026

Lahore is the capital of Pakistan’s most populous Punjab province, where many parents send their children to private tutoring centers in the afternoon and evening. — CNN Money, 1 July 2026

Residents and preliminary police findings indicate the tutoring center was operating in an aging building. — ABC News, 1 July 2026

Verb

Parental involvement, tutoring resources, and community support can meet a child where their state education may be falling short. — Sarah Scott, Parents, 21 July 2026

In South Korea, almost eighty per cent of children regularly attend a hagwon—a private-tutoring center that supplements their schooling and prepares them for tests—which means that many kids are spending up to twelve hours a day in a classroom. — Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 19 July 2026

The Circle City readers tutoring program will receive $600,000 to fund another semester. — Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 9 July 2026

And dozens of tutoring sites enlist freelancers to offer tutoring in everything from math and science to English, foreign languages, dance, music — almost anything. — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2026

The Chromebooks, donated by the Antioch Rotary Club and the Leo Fontana Family Foundation, were used for tutoring students, homework support, job-readiness training, and other educational programs, Trujillo said. — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 27 June 2026

The members organized events such as potluck dinners for Black and white families to interact, tutoring program for students and other efforts to improve southeast Denton. — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 June 2026

Everyone and everything—society, reality, good stuff and bad stuff—is fiercely tutoring our hero, fiercely engaged in his development. — James Parker, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026

Thierry, who has been tutoring Remy, Candace’s son, is now in Annie’s kitchen, not making fun of her terrible French. — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2026