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Tutoring SEND Students
Tutoring SEND students is necessarily more difficult than students without learning difficulties, and can sometimes even help the tutor to plan lessons better.
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Are Schools Failing Oxbridge Applicants when Preparing them for Interviews?
Many state schools don't have the resources or knowledge to prepare students for an Oxbridge interview as well as high performing independent schools. Should they be given more help from the government, or from Oxford and Cambridge?
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The Benefit of Confident Calm Tutor
Taking time to ask the best question is a difficult skill which develops in tutors once they become more confident in lessons.
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What Qualifies Tutors to Tutor a Subject at A Level or GCSE?
We have guidelines to allow tutors to tutor subjects at GCSE and A Level, but they're not hard fast rules.
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Tutor Beyond the Syllabus for Young Students
Tutoring outside of a syllabus really helps to cement ideas for students, and means that they have a solid foundation to build upon as they continue their studies.
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Tutors Taking Holidays
Some new tutors have the idea that being a tutor means lots of holidays and flexible hours, but the more they become invested in their students, the less they want to be away.
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Should Exams and School Assessment be More Abstract?
Changes in syllabuses and school assessment criteria is difficult for schools, but we should be able to create assessment systems which test general ability, rather than subject specific ability.
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The Commitment Tutors Make
It's very important to us that our tutors understand the commitment they make when agreeing to tutor someone. Stopping during a course of lessons can have a really negative effect on a student's studies.
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Tutors Need to Find Motivation for their Students
A motivated student will always be easier to tutor, and more likely to study by themselves than one who isn't motivated. As tutors, if we can explain how studying can improve someone's life long term, then they're much easier to tutor.
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