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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The reason to care about copying in a tutoring exam is not moral. It is that the exam was a measurement, and a copied paper corrupts the measurement: you plan…
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Every experienced tutor has hundreds of good questions. Almost none of them can be found. They are in last year's papers, in a folder on a laptop, in a…
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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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A group of forty is not a group of twelve with more chairs. The difference is not noise, it is feedback. In a small group you can see who is lost by looking.…
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