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The past is a foreign country - you need a qualified tour guide
Use of historical example, English Civil War, to illustrate the complexity of the relationship between State and People, and nobility and clergy, in this period of dramatic change.
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Oral Exams - English Oral Exams - English
I have this week taught my first lesson on an Oral examination in English. Being quite a practised public speaker I brought what I had been taught to bear and it seemed to work quite well.
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When Tutors Go Bad
Pete's blog 8-5-12: It’s been another week of annoying admin tasks for a lot of the time...
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Teaching to the Test
Laura Klein, a teacher from the Bronx, regrets the fact that her students are led to focus so much on standard tests in the school year that this becomes their only motivation for learning.
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ATS School of Thought in Translation
Translators are (not) traitors as said by many some would-be specialists.
Article by a Tutor
Last Minute Tutor
We are almost half way through April, with some students having exams in less then a month and we are still getting many requests on a daily basis for pre-exam tutoring.
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Ethical Tutoring
Today I have been advising a tutor who has a problem student. Although this issue doesn’t come up often, it is frequent enough to merit an article. This student wishes her tutor to do all her reading for a particular subject and provide typed up notes with salient points, counter arguments etc - basically she wishes the tutor to do all her work for her.
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Special Tutoring Skills
Children with special tutoring requirements are often the ones who suffer at school, not from a want of intelligence but from a lack of ability to respond in the same way to a teaching style which is directed at the majority, as indeed it must be.
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My Working Hours
Pete's blog 1-5-12: I made a resolution last week to try and keep my work between 9 and 5...
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