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

Our students would sign up for extra tutoring sessions that many of us offered after class. — Ethan Gologor, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2026

Each student would receive about 65 tutoring sessions annually. — Arkansas Online, 19 Aug. 2026

Tutoring and graduation rates The district's new CEO wants to bring high-impact tutoring to schools to assist struggling students. — Kellye Lynn, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026

In addition to the 40-minute reading instruction four times a week, the schools offered one-hour after-school tutoring sessions four days a week. — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026

Cheap models could bring tutoring, translation, diagnostics, legal assistance, farm advice and small-business automation to places Western subscription pricing barely reaches. — Will Conaway, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

From a surprise yuan devaluation in 2015 to crackdowns in recent years on after-school tutoring and cross-border stock trading, many of Beijing's policy moves appear abrupt to outsiders. — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026

In this simplified example, every additional meal delivered means giving up one tutoring session. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Aug. 2026

The platform is designed to reinforce concepts and provide individual tutoring outside regular school hours. — Jesse Watson, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026

Verb

The teen version includes stronger safety protections, parental controls and features designed to emphasize learning and tutoring rather than simply helping kids cheat on their homework. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2026

Experts stressed engaging in activities that provide purpose and build meaningful connection; volunteering at a food bank or tutoring children was repeatedly recommended. — Taylor Seely, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2026

Mighton began tutoring children in math to support himself financially as a playwright. — Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE, 28 July 2026

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