Tutoring Blog
The Qualified Tutor Blog explores insights, shares expertise, and encourages thoughtful reflection, fostering curiosity, generosity, and professional growth in tutoring.
Q&A with Community Member, Lisa McRobbie
We speak to Community Member, Lisa McRobbie, about her experience in tutoring and what advice she has for tutors starting out.
Making use of the power of the QT Community
Being a private tutor can be very lonely. I’ve been a tutor for a long time and I’ve worked alone. I have made mistakes, learnt from them, had problem students and learned how to deal with them. All on my own. Until now …
The Letter A
A young student struggling to read frequently stopped and remained silent until I told him what the word said. It might have been a really easy word like ’car’. This continued for some time as I tried in vain to work out the problem …
All teachers are teachers of English: all English tutors are tutors of History
At school I remember our class was late for a history lesson. We had been delayed by a ‘substitute’ English teacher whose usual subject was music. This teacher was insistent on finishing his lesson even though the bell had gone 3 minutes earlier …
Tutoring in Isolation
From guest poster Camilla Dunhill: “To anyone working with early learners who is about to face two long, but essential, weeks stuck inside, my advice would be to get creative and get colouring!”
Confessions of an English Tutor
In Richard Ashelford’s next musing, he explores some admissions behind his English tutoring, points that we can all relate to as tutors. Frankly honest and bitingly accurate, Richard takes us on a journey again …
Binary Opposites
In this next instalment of a series of QT participant-authored blogs, Richard Ashelford recounts how he gets students to focus on their own knowledge, and how this can sometimes have unexpected consequences …
The Applicability of Tutoring
In the first of a new series of QT participant-authored blogs, Daniel Dipper gives us his account of how the QT course has changed his approach to tutoring.
Tutoring – Pitch and Pace
The most important thing that I’ve learned is that tutoring is all about a relationship. — Daniel Sunshine
Flicking a Switch
Tutors build confidence, don’t they? That’s what they really do.— Julia Silver
The Most Important Skill for a Tutor
The single most important attribute would be to be an approachable person. — Josh Dean
Let the student take responsibility
I really feel it’s to try and let the pupil take as much responsibility for their own learning as possible. — Daniel Sunshine
The secrets to good teaching and learning
It’s really important that the educator shows the students there is purpose in what they’re doing. — Fran Spalter
3 Responses to school closure that could result in lasting improvements in education
Widening gaps, crammed curricula and reading milestones should all be up for review right now.
What should the curriculum be right now?
E-safety, germ theory and being patient with your family. What the Coronavirus curriculum could look like…
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