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How Many People Know what a Pedagogy is?
It's funny to think that so few people know the word pedagogy. We think that it should be something which is better understood so that parents are better informed about good tutoring.
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Why Should Tutors Have Public Profiles?
We can never guarantee that a tutor will be able to have lessons with a student before asking, so why do we have tutor profiles which students and their parents can browse online?
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Is it Wrong for Oxbridge Grads to Have All the Top Jobs?
If we agree that graduates of Oxford and Cambridge University are our most gifted academically, should we be happy that so many jobs are filled by them?
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Frequent Assessment or One Big Final Exam?
We are rethinking whether it's better to have frequent exams or one big exam at the end of a school year. From a tutor's point of view the former way may not allow for deep understanding.
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Tutors Marking Outside of Lessons
What should be a tutor's approach to marking students' work outside of lessons?
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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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