Theory and Practice of tutoring in Russia

The authors present results of the study based on the analysis of tutoring emergence in Russia, its modernization process and implementation of individualization process and pedagogical support processes as a basis for tutoring activities. We analyze the content basis of the «tutor» phenomenon in national and foreign science. There is a description of basic strands of tutors’ work: analytical and designing, consulting, coordinating and organizing, demonstrating his/her enhanced role as an individual consultant, who helps a child to move on with individual learning paths, which consist of individual trajectories of teaching, education and development of a student. These trajectories, in their turn, are subdivided into knowledge-, practice- and creative- oriented, individual- and person- oriented ones.