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Do Students Identify Between Understanding and Exam Technique?
Tutors sometimes have to choose between teaching understanding and just giving the student the tools to answer exam questions, but do students identify the difference?
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Combining Face to Face and Online Tuition
In situations where your perfect tutor can't travel to you every week, the best way forward might be to consider a few online lessons in between the face to face lessons.
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Tutor Guidelines for Online Tuition
Tutors seem to treat online meetings differently to a face to face meeting, and we think it's important that they don't
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Are Leading Questions Always Bad?
Tutoring Standards warn against leading questions, but we believe that our tutors are right to point out that leading can sometimes be a good thing.
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Should Tutors Set Homework?
When it good and bad for tutors to give their students homework? Who makes this decision?
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Difficulties of Summer Tuition
Summer tuition can work very well, but tutors should understand that students value commitment over a longer period of time.
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Tutors’ Reason for Being a Tutor
We're in the midst of interviewing tutors and the answer to our first interview question is invariably the same.
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Fun Discussions on the Pedagogy
We love talking about how to tutor when interviewing tutors. There are always differences of opinion, but we wouldn't be good at our job if that was a problem.
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Can Last Minute Tuition be Fun for Tutors?
Tuition only a few days before a student's exams is different from long-term tuition, and presents challenges for tutors which can be fun.
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