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Learning a foreign language can be made easier by playing word games.
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Tutors for University
In the past, the most common level at which people decide to hire a private tutor has been for their GCSEs and A’ Levels, yet increasingly students are finding that a private tutor can help them way beyond school.
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Increase interest in your subject by making it relevant
Academic subjects can be so dry when you’re at school. Teachers try hard to make it interesting but the same things just don’t interest everyone. This year I am determined to get my students reading more. Reading more is key to understanding the techniques used by authors - the analysis of which is a key skill in both English Language and Literature. It also improves vocabulary, spelling, creative writing, paragraphing and sentence construction.
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Publication of A'level results means Difficult Decisions for Some
The publication of the A’ level results revealed that there has been a 0.4% drop in the number of students gaining the top grades of A and A*. As a result, more students have missed their first choice offers than in previous years and have had some difficult decisions to make.
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Don’t Try To Achieve Too Much
I’m thinking back to the best lessons I have taught and the best lessons where I have learned. They both have one thing in common; the lesson goal was really quite simple.
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We’re Tutors not Teachers
Many clients don’t seem to understand the difference between what we do and what their child’s teacher does in school. They ask us to search for a teacher in a subject, cutting out many extremely good tutors from helping their child and often getting no offers from tutors at all as a result.
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Science and Maths Increase in Popularity
The publication of today’s A’level results has drawn attention to the fact that science and maths are becoming more popular amongst students, with an average of 3% more students taking these subjects compared with last year.
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Lesson Goals
In the assessments this is a point on which many people fail; either because they don’t provide a goal at all and just launch in to what they are teaching us, or because they say things like ‘I thought we’d look at Charles Darwin’ or ‘Classical Poetry’. While you may think the above are goals, they are not specific enough to class as such. ‘I thought we’d look at how Charles Darwin writes in the final paragraph of his On the Origin of Species and what impact this has on ...’ and ‘Today we are going to look at what it is about Ovid’s Amores that upset Augustus’ are far better goals than the former.
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Get Creative - it’s in all of us, not just the chosen few.
Steve Jobs was know for thinking outside the box. Not only in terms of product innovation but also how he reorganised his office building. Recognising that the most creative ideas came when people were relaxed he repositioned all the places where people would naturally bump into each other so that they were central in the workspace. The coffee shop, cafeteria, mailboxes and even the loos were placed right in the centre of the office building so that people would have to meet in an informal setting, encouraging interaction and creativity.
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