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The problem is not that you lack materials. It is that finding last year's sheet takes longer than making a new one, so you make a new one, and next year there…
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The syllabus assumes a starting point. Your group is somewhere else. Every teacher knows this, and most find out where the group actually is around the fifth…
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Most classroom questions are checks that something was said, not checks that something was understood. "What is the formula for the area of a circle?" is…
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The default revision session is the term compressed: everything explained again, faster. It is comfortable for the teacher, familiar to the students, and one…
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Every tutor has met this: you solve the problem on the board, clearly, step by step. Heads nod. Ten minutes later, the same problem with different numbers, and…
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The opening five minutes of a session are the ones students are most able to concentrate in, and they are almost universally spent on the least valuable…
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The usual lesson plan starts with a topic: "today, quadratic equations." It ends when the period does. Whether anyone can now solve one is discovered later, in…
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Tutoring groups are formed by timetable and geography, not by level. The result is normal and awkward: within one group, a student comfortably ahead of the…
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Whatever happens in the first session becomes the default. Not because students decide to obey, but because they are watching for what this particular teacher…
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Differentiation has a reputation for being impossible: forty children, forty plans. That version genuinely is impossible, and it is not what differentiation…
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A young child listening to an explanation is doing one thing: listening. A young child sorting objects into groups while explaining why is doing four things at…
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