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Unpaid Lesson Fees
It is a sad fact that we do occasionally get clients who fail to pay up despite having enjoyed a significant period of tuition. We do strongly advise that you don’t allow a large amount of fees to accrue but understand that sometimes, during periods of intensive lessons, this may prove more difficult to avoid than it sounds.
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Education Increases Happiness
A government study has shown that those who are better educated rate their own happiness as higher, BBC News reports today (06/07/2012). Although the report is clear to make the distinction that education doesn’t lead to happiness as many other factors affect the way people feel, including someone's age, health, income and job.
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England Lagging Behind in Higher Level Maths
England has ranked 26th out of 34 OECD countries for the proportion of pupils reaching the top level in maths, behind other nations like Slovenia (3.9%), the Slovak Republic (3.6%) France (3.3%) and the Czech Republic (3.2%), which were among those scoring around the OECD average. The Sutton Trust study shows teenagers in England are half as likely as those in the average developed nation to reach higher levels in maths.
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Reasons to be the Best
If you are in need of motivation to work hard and get the best degree you can then you need look no further than a BBC News report yesterday (28/06/2012), which stated that the number of new UK graduates working in jobs like cleaning or bar work has almost doubled to 10,000 in five years, according to government statistics.
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Online Resources
Do you have enough teaching resources? Do you sometimes struggle to think of how you can teach a particular aspect of your subject? The internet has a huge number of teaching resources with teachers and experts in the field willing to share their insights and experience, gained over many years of teaching experience.
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Protect yourself from criticism and motivate your students.
Just yesterday I received an email from the parent of one of my students telling me the marks he had received in year end tests. His email sounded disappointed and his comment about next year’s tuition seemed to imply I was to blame for his son’s performance, which incidentally had improved dramatically from when he started with me.
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Lego stage sets a priority? Creative learning gone mad.
Just after the Easter holidays one of my students told me that he hadn’t finished the play they were reading in class as they had been too busy building lego stage sets on the first act. Yep, I was rather mystified too. This was their second lesson, he explained, during which they had built as a group a lego representation of the detailed set in Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’. As a drama student, he had thoroughly enjoyed this task.
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Reading Lists for Summer
While you might not want to overload your student for the summer break, it is good to send them off with the idea that a small amount of something will be beneficial to them.
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Increasing Confidence in Students
Some students come to you brimming over with confidence. They know they are going to get an A but want an A*, or they know they are good but are just struggling with a certain aspect of the syllabus. But then there are others, who can hardly say a word without blushing, whose eye contact is non existent. These students need help to regain confidence in themselves before we can possibly ask them to move on with their learning.
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