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The default homework is thirty questions on the topic just taught, due next session. It looks rigorous, it takes students an hour, and most of that hour is…
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Sooner or later a parent contacts you angry: about a mark, a comment, a phone call home, or a result that arrived as a surprise. How the first four minutes go…
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Every tutor knows the temptation. The result is poor, the parent is paying, and the easy sentence is "he's doing fine, he just needs to focus a bit more." It…
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A student rarely collapses in one week. The exam result is the last event in a sequence that began a month or more earlier, and almost every signal in that…
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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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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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Almost every tutor takes attendance. Almost none of them use it. The register gets filled in, it is accurate, and it sits there as an excellent historical…
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A schoolteacher facing persistent disruption has a corridor of people behind them. A private tutor has none, and the student causing the problem is paying for…
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