Tutoring Blog
The Qualified Tutor Blog explores insights, shares expertise, and encourages thoughtful reflection, fostering curiosity, generosity, and professional growth in tutoring.
Exam Stress, Mindfulness and Child Mental Health
In a time where resources and strategies for helping children through their disrupted studies are most precious, Linda guides us through simple steps we can all take to assist our school students. Watch out for the light-hearted videos at the bottom …
Perfectionism to Professionalism: how to become the most effective tutor you can be
Rosanna Killick is one of the most dedicated tutors we’ve met since we began Qualified Tutor. This piece, from the heart, details Rosanna’s journey from a committed, but inexperienced, to a thorough and self-reflective tutor. A journey for many others to follow …
Failing My A-Levels Was the Best Thing That Could Have Happened to Me
The title needs little explanation, yet this is about as far from clickbait as possible. Clio writes with honesty, intelligence and more than a splash of humour. An important read for anyone with an ADHD diagnosis … but a must read for anyone without
Q&A with Community Member, Hazel Barnett
Hazel is a fount of wisdom and experience – this Q&A barely scratches the surface of Hazel’s tutoring knowledge, but there’s more than enough in here to get you started …
A Puzzling Time
Oh, so you want a fun and fiendish maths puzzle to tease the brain? Look no further than Claire’s latest thoughts on the utility of maths puzzles in tutoring. Scroll to the bottom for Claire’s favourite new puzzle …
The Birth of Qualified Tutor
Julia Silver, Founder of Qualified Tutor, delivers a powerful origin story. Training and professionalism in tutoring are here to stay – Qualified Tutor will be there for you all the way.
Resilience: What it is and what it isn’t
Amanda Cremona has been an integral part of the QT Community since the very early days. Here, Amanda shares a powerful story of resilience; one which contains a level of vulnerability and honesty that we rarely see in the online sphere in this day and age. Read on to be inspired by Amanda’s journey
The National Tutoring Programme
The NTP has run for just under 3 months now – here, Jolyon gives his expert take on the success of the programme up til now and where resources should be directed for the project to fully reach its potential.
How to Smash Every First Tutoring Session
Love Tutoring: in this, the second in the latest series from Qualified Tutor and Learncube, Julia walks us through the aspects of a hihgly effective first session that will get students coming back for more every time.
4 Simple Strategies to Build Engagement
Welcome to Love Tutoring: a new series of simple and practical guidance videos, blogs and podcasts, produced in collaboration with Learncube. Here, Julia lays out the strategies that yield the best results for engaging students from the very first session.
Exam Access Arrangements: who, what, how and why
In part two of her introductory series, Hazel Barnett takes us through a detailed look at how exam access arrangements work in practice. With explanation and links for each step, this is the complete guide to how you can best provide for your student.
4 Expert Tips for Reducing Exam Stress
Hazel Barnett has been tutoring for longer than anyone we know. Hazel first started tutoring in 1991 and, since then, has acquired rather a few skills for combatting exam stress. Read on to have your fears allayed …
Whose Language is it Anyway?
Returning for the second instalment in a series on accuracy in English, Dave Harris challenges us to consider what we really mean by ‘standard English’ and how our standards may differ from others.
We Live in Interesting Times
Jolyon White has an idea … well, several actually. Tutors can be deployed using far more effective strategies and the lockdown has only emphasised how this can be possible. Read on to discover a world of possibilities
Not All Errors are Equal
In the first of three-part series of blogs reflecting on his own tutoring, Dave Harris takes us through the literature on students’ accuracy. A lot to learn here …
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