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Can Being a Pushy Parent Ever be a Good Thing?
When we think of pushy parents, we think of parents who hire tutors to children before they have started school, harass and abuse teachers and pressure their children to achieve top grades in every subject. However, I would like to suggest that there is an alternative mode of pushy parenting which would be far more positive.
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Playing the Game
For private tutors these issues in the education system present a unique challenge. If grades can change, markers inaccurate, exams retaken or taken with a different exam board for a markedly different result, how are we to convince our students of the value of the exams they are working so hard for?
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Tutoring Adults
The boom in private tuition has not only happened amongst school children and their parents, but also adult learners.
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Schools and Private Tutoring
One of the things that parents worry about when deciding to hire a private tutor for their child, is what their child’s school will make of it. Although tutoring is now extremely popular, there is still no accepted etiquette as to how to address this issue with schools, and the attitudes of schools towards the private tutoring phenomenon vary widely.
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Tutors: Build Self-Esteem
If teachers can explicitly teach character and self-esteem through their everyday teaching of the curriculum, is this something that private tutors can work into their own teaching of their students? Most tutors do a good job of supporting their students’ self-development, but can we do more?
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How to Teach Social Justice
orld Day for Social Justice is an opportunity for teachers to incorporate these themes into their teaching, and as tutors we should already be taking the opportunity to explore these themes with our students.
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The Hidden Curriculum
Whenever we give a lesson, we are teaching more than just the subject; tutors bring their own ideas, views and approaches into their sessions, and this is bound to have an impact on their students.
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Tutor or Babysitter?
I've been thinking about how to teach 2 year olds, and how one distinguishes between tutoring and babysitting at that age.
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Private Tutors vs Private Schools
Trends suggest that parents see private tutoring as a comparable alternative to private school, hiring Oxbridge-graduates to recreate the ‘Eton-effect’ in their own living rooms at a fraction of the cost. But is private tuition that similar to private school?
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