General
27 August 20262 min read
Surviving exam season without burning out
For a private tutor, exam season is the month the income arrives and the month the work becomes unmanageable: extra revision groups, more marking, more anxious…
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General
27 August 20262 min read
Getting your first twenty students without advertising
New tutors reach for advertising because it is the visible thing to do. It is also the least effective channel in this particular market, because a family…
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27 August 20262 min read
What AI can and cannot do for a teacher
Two claims about AI in teaching are both wrong. One is that it will replace the explaining, marking and knowing-your-students that make up the job. The other…
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27 August 20262 min read
The first person you hire, and what you actually hand over
There is a point at which a tutor stops being limited by teaching hours and starts being limited by everything around them: marking, messages, scheduling,…
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27 August 20262 min read
Your materials will leak. What to do about it.
Every tutor who builds good material eventually finds it circulating: in a group they do not run, under someone else's name, or free on a channel with…
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27 August 20262 min read
Running an online lesson that is not forty minutes of silence
Teaching online is not teaching with a technical inconvenience attached. You have lost the two channels you unconsciously rely on: the faces that tell you when…
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27 August 20262 min read
Organising eight years of teaching materials
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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27 August 20262 min read
Recording a lesson video students actually finish
The obvious way to make a lesson video is to record yourself teaching. The result is technically a lesson and almost nobody finishes it, because a live session…
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27 August 20262 min read
Why students leave mid-term, and what you can see coming
A family that leaves mid-term rarely tells you why. The stated reason is scheduling, money, or an unspecified "we've decided to try something else": polite,…
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27 August 20262 min read
Pricing your tutoring without guessing
Ask a tutor how they set their fee and the answer is almost always the same: it is roughly what others in the area charge. That is a reasonable starting point…
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27 August 20262 min read
The monthly parent update that takes ten minutes
Most tutors contact parents twice: when something is wrong, and at the end. From the parent's side that means every message from you is bad news, which is why…
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27 August 20262 min read
Chasing missing homework without becoming the enemy
Every tutor has a group where a third of the homework does not arrive. The usual response is escalation: warnings, then marks deducted, then a message home. It…
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