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Tutors demonstrate impact of environment on students' achievement
If students’ ability is predominantly genetic, then why does tutoring have such a significant impact?
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Tutoring Politics
Private tutors work with students from different backgrounds with different understandings and opinions on the issues which shape our society. They are at a crucial point of development, where some are becoming politically aware, and others, politically active. But how far should tutors make their own opinions known?
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Tutors Teach Students When to Ask for Help
It isn’t a tutor’s job to teach their student how to make student recipes or manage their finances. But there are some lessons that a tutor can teach which will help no end when their students are on their own in education.
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Managing Expectations
All tutors want their students to succeed. But how should tutors handle it if students and their parents have unrealistic expectations?
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Tutors Can Help Demystify University Applications
Although boosting a student’s skill and confidence in a subject is a good start, private tuition is also a forum in which concerns about university applications can be addressed.
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Unleashing Creativity
Unleashing creativity with extra-curricular activities
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Tutors Need To Set Boundaries
Tutoring agencies are now receiving requests which have more extensive requirements, which may demand an unspecified commitment from the tutor towards their students’ families.
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Discipline for Tutoring
There are many students out there who always complete work for their tutor on time, and are generally a joy to teach. But there are others whose behaviour is difficult, which leaves tutors with a decision to make about how to handle bad behaviour.
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Dealing with Gender Stereotypes
New research has emerged which suggests that sexism remains a ubiquitous problem faced by women at UK universities. This is not a problem that materialises in higher education institutions, but rather one that pervades many women’s education from the day they start school.
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