How many times have you needed to hire a qualified, well-trained b’nei mitzvah tutor — but just couldn’t find one?
When I’ve needed to hire a tutor, I frequently had candidates with cantillation skills, but no tutoring experience, or people who are great with kids, but didn’t know trope.
Until now, there hasn’t been a way to bridge that gap except by devoting hours each week to training someone myself.
That’s why I created Trope Tutor — a series of online courses to train amazing b’nei mitzvah tutors.
A still image from one of our course videos.
Trope Tutor will give your future tutor all the skills and techniques they need for effective and efficient lessons.
We’ve created three courses:
How to be an Amazing B’nei Mitzvah Tutor
How to Chant Torah
How to Chant Haftarah
They’ll get training from an ordained cantor with more than 15 years of experience as a b’nei mitzvah tutor.
Trope Tutor takes away all of the guesswork and trial-and-error approaches, and puts concrete, usable tutoring techniques in one place.
Tutors will learn essential skills such as:
How to structure an effective lesson of any length
Common visualization techniques like highlighting by trope phrase and the “dot-and-line” method of melodic notation
How to identify and support students with varying learning styles and levels of musical skill
Examples of effective communication with parents
