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Practical strategies and ideas to support informed, effective tutoring.
Diagnostic assessment, curriculum-aligned analysis, personalised learning plans and goals, recommended teaching priorities and parent reporting.
Much of what we do as tutors is shaped by the learning needs of the students we teach, whether lessons take place online or in person. Building trust, understanding a student’s learning goals and planning a personalised pathway are central to that work. Behind each lesson, there is often a significant amount of preparation. To […]
“What did you do in the lesson today? What did you learn?” These are questions many parents ask their child following their tutoring session. They can also be difficult for a student to answer. Students tend to describe the activity rather than the learning behind it, so parents may hear replies such as: “I did […]
For those of us dedicated to the profession of tutoring, there is no greater reward than watching a student experience an academic breakthrough. We invest our energy into those face-to-face hours, structuring our approach to unlock each student’s potential. However, there is an invisible element to running a private tutoring practice or small educational business […]
There was a student I worked with years ago who kept getting the same type of question wrong. Not every time — but often enough that it stood out. My first instinct was to reteach the topic in front of me. Go over it again, slower this time, more examples, more repetition. It seemed like […]
After 12 years managing my own tutoring business, I knew there had to be a better way to support the professional work tutors do every day. When I left teaching to start my own tutoring business, I quickly realised just how different tutoring was from classroom teaching. In a classroom, teachers work within a structured […]
