What's the difference between instructor and tutor?

Instructor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who instructs; one who imparts knowledge to another; a teacher.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) and (4) Compared to the instruction provided by instructors from other medical and academic disciplines, do paediatric residents perceive differences in the teaching efficacy and clinical relevance of instruction provided by paediatricians?
  • (2) Aircraft pilots Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Getting paid to have your head in the clouds.’ Photograph: CTC Wings Includes: Flight engineers and flying instructors Average pay before tax: £90,146 Pay range: £66,178 (25th percentile) to £97,598 (60th percentile).
  • (3) Implications for retaining field instructors and directions for further research are highlighted.
  • (4) An accurate portrait of BLS and ACLS instructors is crucial for organizations such as the American Heart Association if they wish to attract and retain instructors.
  • (5) Curriculum writers and instructors of preservice elementary teachers could be more effective if they were aware of this group's beliefs about school-related AIDS issues.
  • (6) "Only one bullet that we're aware of hit, the second Australian returned fire and critically injured and possibly killed the Afghani," said Lieutenant General Rhys Jones, chief of the New Zealand Defence Force, who identified his injured soldier as an instructor from the officer academy.
  • (7) A questionnaire showed that instructors liked the unit, found it useful, and would use it again.
  • (8) The Balance Index is a list of standards by which instructors can assess the postures and position in the clinical performance of dental students.
  • (9) The findings suggest that educational environment and perceived qualities of instructor supportiveness are essential to the effectiveness of a socially oriented educational program.
  • (10) Self-evaluation opportunities by students and assessment of performance by instructors using objective criteria have been developed for each phase of complete denture prosthodontics and placed within a text illustrating methods to reach the desired standards.
  • (11) No differences in outcome measures were found between groups led by professional instructors and those led by lay instructors.
  • (12) It details the efforts at Ohio State University to supply this instruction and demonstrates the positive results of library user education as seen by the instructors of occupational therapy students.
  • (13) The Surf's Up Surf School has been operating from the beach for 15 years and has an experienced team of instructors (including a former New Zealand national-level coach, Kelly O'Toole) who are prepared to work with everyone from complete beginners to elite riders.
  • (14) For example, faculty members ranked characteristics dealing with the clinical instructor's relationship with students to be more important than those dealing with professional competence--the opposite of Brown's results.
  • (15) Quality of CPR was graded by three CPR instructors using explicit criteria.
  • (16) The programme was multidisciplinary and consisted of a combination of physical activity, formal lectures about health matters and individual consultations with doctor, psychologist, social worker, nurse and sports instructor.
  • (17) He became an instructor in radar at RAF Debden, near Saffron Walden, Essex, and attained the rank of flying officer.
  • (18) In this paper the author presents a rationale and a systematic procedure for the construction, implementation, and analysis of student feedback data which will provide both valid and reliable information about specific areas of the educational process that are controllable by instructors.
  • (19) Andy Hill, a 51-year-old former RAF instructor with more than 12,000 hours of flying experience, is a skilled aerobatic flyer and a regular at airshows, said fellow pilot, who flew earlier in the show.
  • (20) Everyone seemed to be cheating and the instructors weren't doing anything to stop it.

Tutor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing.
  • (n.) A treasurer; a keeper.
  • (n.) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.
  • (n.) A private or public teacher.
  • (n.) An officer or member of some hall, who instructs students, and is responsible for their discipline.
  • (n.) An instructor of a lower rank than a professor.
  • (v. t.) To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct.
  • (v. t.) To play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That motivation is echoed by Nicola Saunders, 25, an Edinburgh University graduate who has just been called to the bar to practise as a barrister and is tutoring Moses, an ex-convict, in maths.
  • (2) "Show that you know what you are applying for and have looked at the course information published on the university's website," says Gwyn Chivers, admissions tutor at Anglia Ruskin.
  • (3) Data were collected during three conditions: baseline, modeling, and peer tutoring.
  • (4) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
  • (5) One of Prime’s founder members, Linklaters, provides tutoring, mentoring, work experience, and careers events to 2,500 young people in Hackney each year through its Realising Aspirations programme , according to a company spokesperson.
  • (6) By contrast, there was a substantial and highly significant improvement of knowledge among women who were given the ECAC and who were also individually tutored; this difference in CK was accounted for by improvement in both PK and AK.
  • (7) He didn't go to university, but says he discovered the joy of learning for learning's sake when he was tutored on the Harry Potter sets.
  • (8) It consists of a clinical assessment made by a surgical tutor over a period of six weeks throughout a student's surgical term, a visual, clinically orientated written examination a "spotter-type" practical examination and a viva-voce examination.
  • (9) It is suggested that the student, his parents and tutor should be informed about his health impairments, the degree of disability and therapeutic possibilities.
  • (10) An alternative is to let currently enrolled students proctor and tutor each other.
  • (11) We conducted a large-scale field replication study of classwide peer tutoring applied to spelling instruction (Greenwood, Delquadri, & Hall, 1984).
  • (12) An anonymous fashion design student at the University of Kingston says: "Our tutors have always told us not to take unpaid internships and I think they're all quite passionate about that.
  • (13) "I looked up tutoring online and found out about an agency specialising in student tutors, Bright Young Things (BYT).
  • (14) And so while it’s particularly pernicious that some parents pay for months, sometimes years, of tutoring to get their child through an exam that they might well otherwise fail, I know it’s because they are desperate to secure for their child any extra benefit going in a country that is becoming ever more unequal.
  • (15) The recent big increase in learning opportunities for general practitioners, particularly in postgraduate medical centres, has been accompanied by increasing suspicion that educational activities may not be fulfilling the aims of continuing education, and that there is dissatisfaction with existing courses.This study took place in the north-western region, and 18 clinical tutors were interviewed using a structured interview schedule.Very few of the clinical tutors were aware of the existence of the book The Future General Practitioner-Learning and Teaching, and most activities consisted of lectures, lecturers usually being local and regional consultants, with occasional national authorities.
  • (16) In problem-based learning, process and content are inextricably linked, with the three cardinal elements being the students, the tutors, and the problems.
  • (17) Peer tutoring combined with praise led to a significant improvement in solving mathematics problems requiring regrouping, word recognition, and ability to locate specific text pages.
  • (18) Older adults were shown to be capable of producing gains by themselves that were comparable to those obtained following tutor-guided training in the nature of test-relevant cognitive skills.
  • (19) The first attempt to apply the problem-based learning approach to written material for use by an individual learner in the absence of a tutor led to a trial in Ghana, Kenya and Pakistan to compare a conventionally designed module with a problem-based learning module on the same topic for their respective acceptability, effectiveness and efficiency.
  • (20) But then came a challenge I couldn't turn down – busking outside Camden tube station with Billy Bragg , one of my musical and political heroes, who was happy to tutor and coax me through our favourite playlist.