Become the tutor your students need
A practical six-unit course for tutors who want to build safe, skilled and thoughtful practice. Based on Love Tutoring: Be the Tutor Your Student Needs, the textbook for the course.
Why this course matters
Effective tutoring is not just about subject knowledge. It depends on judgement, safeguarding, relationships, responsiveness and professional habits.
Foundations of Effective Tutoring helps tutors build those habits deliberately. It is for tutors who want more than guesswork and good intentions. It is for tutors who want a stronger foundation.
Who it is for
New tutors
Start well and build strong habits from the beginning.
Experienced tutors
Refresh and sharpen your practice with a clearer professional framework.
Teachers moving into tutoring
Understand what makes tutoring distinct and how to do it well.
Tutors who want credibility
Strengthen your confidence, your judgement and the way you present your work.
What is included
The course is comprised of six units. If you choose to upgrade to the Level 3 Award in Education and Training, you will complete two additional assessment units at the end.
Course workshops
Workshop 1: Professionalism for Tutors
How the 7Ps — preparedness, punctuality, presentability, politeness, positivity, patience and persistence — help you present yourself as a professional consistently.
Workshop 2: Safeguarding for Tutors
How to recognise, respond and report safeguarding and child protection concerns.
Workshop 3: Relationship Matters
How to build an effective tutoring relationship based on positivity, respect and trust.
Workshop 4: The Learning Loop
How to plan and teach using an assessment-first approach and research-informed methodologies to make the most of every session.
Workshop 5: Barriers to Learning
How to support and include students with special educational needs, disabilities or mental health concerns.
Workshop 6: Powerful Feedback
A research-informed approach to feedback that helps students make greater progress.
Love Tutoring: Be the Tutor Your Student Needs
The course is built around Love Tutoring: Be the Tutor Your Student Needs by Julia Silver, which serves as the textbook for the programme.
The book explores what excellent tutoring actually looks like. The course helps you put those ideas into practice.
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Where this can lead
Foundations gives you a strong starting point. If you want ongoing support, recognition and professional community, you can then explore Qualified Tutor membership.
In other words: start with the course, strengthen your practice, then decide whether membership is your next step.
Start Foundations of Effective Tutoring for £49
Six practical workshops. A clear professional foundation. A simple first step.