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Why Tutor Online – What If You’re Not in the Top 1% of Teachers?
WHY TUTOR ONLINE Isn’t it strange how quickly we forget things these days? I don’t only mean car keys or appointment times. I’m talking about the events that have profound impact on our way of life. Take, for example, the Occupy protests. Remember those? When...
Start Tutoring Online – a whole new you
Online tutoring: recreate your teaching career.There’s nothing like the start of a school year to make you think.Resolutions and fresh starts, yes...but for many, it’s also a time to reflect on the past ad regroup. To take stock.Think for a moment about the past...
What can I teach online?
WHAT CAN I TEACH ONLINE? I'd be very rich if I had a pound every time someone asked me so, what can I teach online? This is a question I'm asked by lots of people when I explain what I do for a living. Because what I do, teaching online is exciting and people...
What does online tutoring look like ?
WHAT DOES ONLINE TUTORING LOOK LIKE? My husband says I'm nosy. I say I'm interested, intelligently inquistive, inquiring even. Admittedly that's debatable when I have my face squeezed up at someone else's window when we're out for a walk by the seashore. True, I...
Teachers – do you value yourself ?
TEACHERS - DO YOU VALUE YOURSELF? Last month I sat in the waiting room at my son's orthodontist while his braces were fixed. A sign on the notice board caught my eye: 64 patients missed their appointments last month and didn't call to cancel. That's 16 hours of lost...
Tutor Online
There's something about the view from a sun lounger that makes everything seem, well... different. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I've had some of my best ideas on holiday. The combination of heat, swimming and Ambre Solaire creates space in my brain, stills...
Exploring Essential Online Tutoring Tools: Balancing Tech and Tradition
I've always had a soft spot for stationery; it might be a teacher/writer thing. From propelling pencils to paper clips and notebooks, they all hold a world of potential. While I wasn't the most diligent student, my organizational skills were top-notch. I often spent...
Can You Make Money Tutoring Online?
Can you make money online tutoring is a question I'm asked. Often. Ten years ago I was paid the going rate for online tutoring. Or so I thought. I live in a fairly affluent area in Scotland, an area where parents are very keen for their children to do well in exams....
10 Myths About Online Tutoring
There are many myths about online tutoring- things people believe about how it works and how people will respond to it . Like many long held beliefs, many of these are simply not true and for the last 8 years now I've been trying to field these objections in a bid for...
Rethinking Education: Embracing Change in the Modern World
In the ever-evolving realm of education, moments arise that challenge conventional wisdom and compel us to envision a new path forward. Recently, a newspaper article caught my attention, hinting at a radical shift in the traditional schooling system. As we delve into...
Embracing Late Career Change
Seizing New Opportunities and Shaping Your Path When It’s Too Late for a Late Career Change Sometimes I laugh at the idea that in many cultures around the world, we expect teenagers who are fresh out of school to choose a career. Not a starter job, mind you, but a...
Power of Feedback: What Do You think Of Me
It's that time of year when we're approaching exams in the UK and racing towards the academic finish line. That means saying goodbye to lots of students we've (hopefully ) guided through the year to exam success . aBut before you do there's one more vital thing you...
TUTOR SPOTLIGHT: DR LEO EVANS
Once you're confident enough with your online tutoring skills, the next stage is to find students. Enter Dr Leo Evans, Co-founder of The Profs, Spires online tutoring and founder of BitPaper. You thought you were busy ? I caught up with Leo recently to talk about our...
TUTOR SPOTLIGHT: Vicki Marie Venn
Vicki Marie Venn tells us how she's taken control of her working life to work round her family Tell us about your background: are you a trained teacher? Yes; after my first undergraduate degree (Sociology and Social Policy) I completed a PGCE (Post-Graduate...
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"Go and see Dunkirk, it's the best movie I've seen in a while ..." "Try the new Italian restaurant on the High street- it's queued out the door. Can't get a table for months..." "Need a Maths tutor? Try Fred he's great but get in early- he books up fast" Word of mouth...
Online Engagement Strategy: Crafting Compelling Content
It's my daughter's 21st birthday party next weekend. Caterers. Marquees. The whole shebang - after all you're only 21 once I'm told. When talking to the caterers about the menu, I was struck by their approach: Who are the guests? What age? What's the party theme? What...
TUTOR SPOTLIGHT – Vaishnavi Sarathy
Another Tutor Spotlight this week - and it's a great one! Vaishnavi Sarathy of Plum Pudding Chemistry Tutoring is working only 10 hours a week, completely in control of her working life, spends quality time with her son and earns a very respectable amount of money...
Take My Lead! : The Power of Lead Magnet
You know when you go to the movies and they show trailers of movies coming soon? The best bits of the movies are always in the trailers. And that’s because the job of the trailer is to get you to pay to see the movie. There’s no point in saving the best for the movie...
Teaching Impact From Classroom to Online Tutoring
A week can be a really long time can't it? Well, for my primary teacher cousin Gemma Dunne, it's been a long, sad and somewhat surreal week. Here's how it panned out - On Friday her 15 month old Golden Retriever puppy, Charlie, was unwell - lethargic, breathless...
A Kind Word from an Online Tutor
When I was at teacher training college for a year after university, the most instructive day - and there weren't many - was the day I followed a pupil all day long. A wee guy who came from a poor background, he had crisps and coke for breakfast and ate rubbish all day...
Let’s Rewrite This Script – Online Tutor Pricing
Like most of us, I'm in a lot of tutoring Facebook Groups. At this time of year when we're headed towards exam time, naturally we start thinking about new students, filling our tutoring slots for next year, our prices for next session and maybe even raising our...
Exploring Online Teacher Salary and Career Growth
As an active participant in the teacher community, I've observed a shift in conversations beyond the classroom. While educators continue to seek ways to enhance their teaching methods, a new topic has emerged prominently: the pressing concern of inadequate teacher...
Innovative Teaching Methods: Breaking Boundaries in Education
Revolutionizing Education with Creativity We've all known that one student who just seems to get away with everything. Clever, charming, usually possessed of a rakish smile and an incorrigible cheerfulness, this is the student who can goof off all term and still...
Tutor Spotlight: Sally Weatherly
Here I speak to the powerhouse that is Sally Weatherly. Mother of 2 young children, a former head of physics department who took the plunge two years ago to work online. She now has a very successful and profitable online course for IB physics and a platform that...