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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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How do I get Promoted?
I often get asked this question and there is a very simple answer - be a great tutor. Be reliable, be prepared, be committed. If you are all of the above then promotion will follow the excellent feedback you continually receive from your students.
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You’re a Tutor not a Babysitter!
When tutoring younger children, responsibility for their welfare can be an issue. Whether you tutor at your house, or theirs, or somewhere agreed mutually, you are responsible for their safety while their parents are not around.
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Shakespeare: start ‘em young
I teach English and English literature to students of all ages.
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If Payments are Worrying You, Talk to Us!
99% of our tutors pay all their invoices on time. However, we have a few tutors who don’t seem to think this is important.
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