The Love Tutoring Podcast
185 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago -Tutoring is finally getting the love it deserves. In this podcast, former school leader Julia Silver interviews inspirational tutors and the parents that employ them, to explore how tutoring does more than boost grades, how it in fact builds confidence, nurtures resilience and can transform the life of a young person, and their family. Julia Silver is author of 'Love Tutoring, Be the tutor your student needs', published by Crown House, and Founder of Qualified Tutor, the professional development community for the tutoring profession.
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Qualified Tutor and Bramble #1: The Power of Online Tutoring
October 08, 2020 09:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBBramble are a force to be reckoned with. With over half a million hours of online tutoring completed on Bramble by some of the world's leading tutoring organisations, Bramble possesses the scale and expertise to revolutionise online tutoring forever. Every single session is recorded and then made available for both student and tutor, and with AI-driven transcription of every piece of content covered and the Smart Search tool, nothing is missed and everything can be reviewed for revision, f...
High Challenge, Low Threat: How Tutors & Teachers Can Maximise Students’ Learning
October 01, 2020 09:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MBMary Myatt has changed the way we think about schools and our approach to developing children, both academically and cognitively. Mary has produced an extraordinary range and wealth of literature on the subject, and it informs and inspires us in every part of the QT course and our vision for how to improve students' ambitions and success. The QT Podcast itself is changing the way tutors level up their service, hosting interviews and roundtables with many of the sector's leading voices - ...
In Conversation with ... Qualified Tutor Tier 1 Graduates #5
September 24, 2020 09:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBThis course is powered by the participants. The richness and depth of discussion that we see week after week, breakout after breakout, is such a powerful force for us tutors. It's not often that we get to witness, let alone be part of, a group of such motivated and enthusiastic tutors gathered in one place, sharing knowledge and understanding from their experience. We know that the Qualified Tutor Community provides the 250-strong group with daily support, advice and a space to meet and co...
Interview with Dame Alison Peacock, CEO of The Chartered College of Teaching
September 17, 2020 09:00 - 26 minutes - 18.6 MBDame Alison Peacock, CEO of The Chartered College of Teaching , chats to us about how experience of working with tutors and how Learning without Limits is really at the core of what teachers and tutors alike should be aspiring towards. Dame Alison has over 30 years of experience in the field and joins QT here at a time when tutoring is right on the cusp of taking a central role in the education system. We support and inspire a large number of motivated tutors and this conversation repres...
Small Group Tuition: Expert Q&A Session with Qualified Tutor
September 10, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBNo two episodes are the same. Moving away from our interview- and roundtable-style episodes, this week, we chat to our inspiring Community members and tutoring friends we've met along the way who discuss with us several key topics currently most prevalent in the field of tutoring. How do we maintain engagement over the online learning space? Many of us have watched slick how-to videos or read eloquent blog articles on the matter, but there's no substitute for collaborative learning and liv...
In Conversation with ... Qualified Tutor Tier 1 Graduates #4
September 03, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBEach cohort we take through this course builds on the last. It is truly inspiring to see the participants share and grow over the course of the 4 weeks, from safeguarding for tutors to discussions around SEND, mental health and wellbeing in the final session. This fantastic cohort of qualified tutors was our first cohort in which we worked with tutors from independent agencies. This natural collaboration allowed our tutors to learn quickly and easily from one another, and it was proof that ...
Roundtable Discussion on How Agencies & Schools Can Best Work Together
August 27, 2020 09:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBIn a time when tutors and teachers, schools and agencies will come together, we bring you a conversation as topical as any. Our guests in this episode speak from years of experience in the fields of tutoring and teaching which, as this discussion goes some way to proving, are not worlds apart. Johnny Manning, Founder of Manning's Tutors, is a specialist in working with schools and has, for over 10 years now, been working with Amy Welch, Headteacher at Lambeth Academy in South London. Joini...
The Magic of Tutoring: How to Bring Your Student's Learning Alive
August 20, 2020 09:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBWelcome to the Qualified Tutor Podcast Neil Cowmeadow knows a thing or two about tutoring. Having worked in the consultancy industry, Neil found that teaching people gave him the greatest joy in life. Today, he has a long waiting list of future students and smiles most broadly when he's jamming along with a student. Neil is a specialist guitar tutor and inspires all students he works with to enjoy their own music. While other music tutors and teachers have struggled with the move to onlin...
An Inspirational Teach First Teacher on the Power of Professional Development for Tutors
August 13, 2020 08:00 - 32 minutes - 22 MBWelcome to the Qualified Tutor Podcast Eli Baigel understands the obstacles and barriers that lockdown has imposed on education. As a Teach First teacher in his first year, he has perhaps undergone one of the most complex and arduous introductions to the already-demanding world of education for many years, possibly ever. Working alongside this as a tutor, Eli has witnessed first-hand how students and educators have had to rework all skills and techniques they had taken for granted. In a c...
In Conversation with ... Qualified Tutor Graduates #3
August 06, 2020 12:00 - 17 minutes - 11.7 MBAfter another incredible 4 weeks brimming with discussion, learning and connection, we have come to the end of our 4th Qualification for Tutors Tier 1 cohort. We are immensely proud of our newly qualified Tier 1 tutors - they brought the course alive and added great value and new perspectives to the content that we delivered: Josh Elwell: Maths tutor and Maths and Statistics undergraduate student Lee Silve: Maths tutor and Editor in educational publishing Jessie Pitsillides: Founder of the...
Continuing Professional Development in Tutoring: The Why and the How
July 30, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBContinuing Professional Development is an important and widespread fixture of the education sector. And yet, it is not a widely available option for tutors. Martin Rowe, Head of Operations at The CPD Certification Service, understands the significance of bringing this crucial facet of training to the world of tutoring. Over the course of the conversation, we explore why continuous training is such an essential part of a tutor's service and how a lack of commitment to ongoing personal and ...
Online Tutoring and How Best to Make Effective Use of the Summer Break
July 23, 2020 09:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBAs the first murmurings of face-to-face tutoring emerge, after 4 months of exclusively virtual learning, it has become clear that online tutoring is here to stay. The jumps in EdTech that have been made will not simply disappear, rather online learning has established itself as part of the teaching and learning landscape for good. Tutors continue to cite a lack of adequate preparation and knowledge regarding the virtual environment, much as they have lacked training and skills in the face-t...
How The Tutors' Association Supports Tutors
July 16, 2020 11:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBJohn Nichols, President of The Tutors' Association, joined us to discuss how TTA are supporting and serving tutors in this tricky time. TTA is the largest tutors' membership body in Britain and, as such, plays a crucial role in fostering and building relationships between individual tutors, tuition providers and policy-makers. With the National Tutoring Programme at the forefront of tutoring and education today, Qualified Tutor and TTA come together to provide up-to-date advice and support ...
Roundtable Discussion with Lee Elliot Major OBE, pioneer of the National Tutoring Programme, and Qualified Tutor
July 09, 2020 10:00 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBQualified Tutor and Lee Elliot Major OBE come together to discuss many of the current issues in the educational landscape, as well as the fundamentals of empowering students to become independent learners. Lee is a keynote speaker, published author (we are avid fans of What Works) and columnist who’s been spearheading the movement to address this country’s low social mobility and unequal education landscape. Lee has also formerly been Chief Executive of The Sutton Trust (with whom we are w...
Roundtable discussion with Lee Elliot Major OBE, pioneer of the National Tutoring Programme, and Qualified Tutor, leaders in tutor training
July 09, 2020 10:00 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBQualified Tutor and Lee Elliot Major OBE come together to discuss many of the current issues in the educational landscape, as well as the fundamentals of empowering students to become independent learners. Lee is a keynote speaker, published author (we are avid fans of "What Works") and columnist who’s been spearheading the movement to address this country’s low social mobility and unequal education landscape. Lee has also formerly been Chief Executive of The Sutton Trust (with whom we are...
Roundtable Discussion with Lee Elliot Major OBE, pioneer of the National Tutoring Programme, and Qualified Tutor, leaders in tutor training
July 09, 2020 10:00 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBQualified Tutor and Lee Elliot Major OBE come together to discuss many of the current issues in the educational landscape, as well as the fundamentals of empowering students to become independent learners. Lee is a keynote speaker, published author (we are avid fans of What Works) and columnist who’s been spearheading the movement to address this country’s low social mobility and unequal education landscape. Lee has also formerly been Chief Executive of The Sutton Trust (with whom we are w...
In Conversation with ... Qualified Tutor Graduates #2
July 02, 2020 09:00 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MBAfter another incredible 4 weeks brimming with discussion, learning and connection, we have come to the end of our 2nd Qualification for Tutors cohort. The brilliant names who joined us and can now proudly call themselves qualified tutors: Alexander Gabran: Tutor at Mentor Jr Daria Hassan: Postgraduate and Arts Events Manager Seth Burkett: Ghostwriter and Freelance Social Media Manager Camilla Dunhill: University of Oxford graduate, experienced tutor and singer Soraya Dhanani: Student Tuto...
Training Student Tutors: How to Take Your First Steps into Tutoring
June 25, 2020 09:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBWelcome to the Qualified Tutor Podcast We are so pleased to have connected with amazing people like Jessie Pitsillides. Jessie is the Founder of Mentor Jr, a brilliant new online tutoring service that connects student tutors and mentors with younger students, thereby bridging the gap between tutor and student as well as building positive relationships between peers. With so many wonderful insights into what mentoring means to Jessie, this jam-packed 25 minutes contains a host of fantast...
The Essential Skills for a Tutor & the Importance of CPD in Education
June 18, 2020 12:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBWelcome to the Qualified Tutor Podcast After the success of our first cohort of qualified tutors, we speak to Victoria Gibbs, Manager at Tutors International, about her experiences of the course and her thoughts on the direction of tutoring in today's society. With many years of working in the tutoring industry, Victoria is acutely aware of, firstly, the need for tutors in the education sector and secondly, the skills that make a successful tutor. Placing tutors in long-term residential jo...
In Conversation with ... Qualified Tutor Graduates
June 11, 2020 09:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBThis week, our first cohort of Qualified Tutors graduated after completing 4 weeks of close learning and interactive live discussion. Dan Wardle: Business Studies BA, University of Leeds Victoria Gibbs: Tutoring Agency Manager Eli Baigel: Teach First teacher Rose Matthews: Biochemistry MSc, University of Oxford Lachie Ayles: University of Oxford graduate Evie Miller: English Literature MA Claire Cant: Teaching Assistant and Tutor Helen Kenworthy: Director, The Complete Works Omaria Haq: Fo...
EdTech & Digital Skills: How to Deliver Teaching and Learning Online
June 04, 2020 09:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBWelcome to The Qualified Tutor Podcast. If you weren't already aware of it, the lockdown period has pushed tutoring to the level of national and international consciousness. Digital skills and a competence in EdTech are essential to any educator, be it tutor, teacher or course deliverer. Vikki Liogier, National Head of EdTech & Digital Skills at the Education & Training Foundation, has known this for years, perhaps longer than almost anyone in the industry. Vikki bought her first Adobe Pho...
Mentoring through Music: How Play for Progress is Changing the Lives of Refugees
May 28, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBWelcome to The Qualified Tutor Podcast We're continuing the rich stream of music in education in recent episodes, giving educators from many fields the inspiration of hearing how powerful music can be in liberating students' intellectual creativity and giving them a voice. We were lucky enough to be joined by two of the incredible team at Play for Progress, a wonderful charity supporting socially-isolated refugee students and minors. Anna MacDonald, Head of Relationships, and Simon Roth, ...
The Power of Music in Education
May 21, 2020 09:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBWelcome to The Qualified Tutor Podcast Over the past few episodes, we've heard how important music is in educating students, not only in giving them a voice to be heard but also in creating fun, refreshing ways for the standard academic content to be covered. Joined by Anna and Harrison from Orchestras For All, Head of Programmes and NOFA Ambassador respectively, we were able to have an absorbing discussion, ranging from how organisations such as OFA and QT can cater for the recent shift i...
The Tutor's Guide to Online Learning
May 14, 2020 09:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBWelcome to the Qualified Tutor Podcast In a time like this, relatable and accurate advice on how to cope in the circumstances is the best measure for thriving and maintaining the upward momentum. Vishal Bhogaita, Founder of Educ8all, provides precisely this. As one of the fastest growing online course providers, Educ8all is an oasis for tutors and educational material creators to sell and deliver their courses and curricula. As an alternative to school-led syllabuses, there is no better op...
Educational Disadvantage: The Importance of Tutors
May 07, 2020 09:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBWelcome to The Qualified Tutor Podcast Action Tutoring is a heavyweight of the tutoring world and we are incredibly lucky, as we so often are, to have had the chance to speak to Susannah Hardyman, Founder of the organisation. Susannah is in an almost unrivalled position to comment on the current situation of the education system, on the importance of tutors to students and parents around the country and on the significant impact that one-to-one tuition can have on a student's success and s...
Disrupted Learning: The Student's View
April 30, 2020 09:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBWelcome to The Qualified Tutor Podcast To try and get a better understanding of the situation in schools during this time, this week we're speaking to Mordechai Keet, a 6th form student whose A-level preparations have been severely disrupted by the enforced school closures. Mordechai is a committed and engaging student with big plans for the future and here, he is able to give a brilliant new take on the situation. At the heart of this disruption is the pupils themselves, whose short- and ...
The Qualified Tutor Podcast
April 29, 2020 14:00 - 1 minute - 1.23 MBWelcome to the Qualified Tutor Podcast Tutoring is a crowded space right now - it’s difficult to know where to get the right information from, whether you’re a parent, a tutor or a student. The Qualified Tutor Podcast aims to set you apart, by speaking to experienced tutors, educators and thought leaders in education about their experiences with tutoring and the tips they have for tutors, parents and students like you. We are not an agency and we are here to serve you, respond to tutor...
Qualified Tutor Podcast
April 29, 2020 14:00 - 1 minute - 1.24 MBWelcome to the Qualified Tutor Podcast Tutoring is a crowded space right now - it’s difficult to know where to get the right information from, whether you’re a parent, a tutor or a student. The Qualified Tutor Podcast aims to set you apart, by speaking to experienced tutors, educators and thought leaders in education about their experiences with tutoring and the tips they have for tutors, parents and students like you. We are not an agency and we are here to serve you, respond to tutor...
Tutoring: How To Make A Difference
April 23, 2020 09:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBWelcome to The Qualified Tutor Podcast This week, we hear from Sophie Parker, Founder of Tutor In A Box, a smart and creative way for you to access learning resources and material. Sophie's work has seen her win several awards and she was recently a Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist at the FSB Awards ceremony. Sophie's passion for creating accessible and affordable resources ("in a box") for students so that parents can become teachers shines through from the first minute and Sophi...
Tutoring: A Song and A Dance
April 16, 2020 15:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBWelcome to The Qualified Tutor Podcast The roundtable is a wonderful way of allowing guests to bounce off the energy and enthusiasm of each other and there really could be no one better for this than Matthew Mazur. Matt is the Founder of Turtle Dance Music (http://turtledancemusic.com/) and Autismfriendlyshows.com and is truly the most vibrant and charismatic educator we here at QT have ever encountered. His passion for teaching and helping kids is profoundly inspiring and his range of ski...
Accountability and Approachability: The Tutor's Handbook
April 09, 2020 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBWelcome to The Qualified Tutor Podcast Our next guest, Josh Dean, is a committed, inspiring and academically brilliant tutor who specialises in languages and humanities tutoring online. Josh gives his honest and heartfelt take on what it really means to be a good tutor, on the attributes that truly make an approachable and personable educator. From allowing your students to feel at ease to tips for bookending the session with your most important points, Josh's advice is clear, concise and r...
The Independent Tutor: Marketing and Self-Promotion
April 02, 2020 10:00 - 21 minutes - 14.5 MBWelcome to The Qualified Tutor Podcast Lucie Williams, a wonderful self-employed languages tutor, gives her take on how to self-promote as a tutor, guiding us through her tips for how to get into good habits early on and then move into self-marketing in today's world. Leading her own group of trusted tutors, Lucie provides her clients with the same top-level service every single time. A well-travelled and highly experienced tutor in many countries, listening to Lucie will give you the energ...
From An Expert Tutor's Perspective
March 26, 2020 11:00 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBWelcome to The Qualified Tutor Podcast Fran Spalter, everyone's favourite teacher, guides us through her view on tutoring and what lessons can be learnt from her teaching experience. Fran has a wonderful way of clearly communicating her ideas, no doubt honed during her 15+ years of high-level teaching. From what the role of a tutor should be to tips on how to deal with a struggling student, Fran's understanding of the wider tutor-student relationship is profound and delicately explored in t...
The Qualified Tutor Course - An Insight
March 19, 2020 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBWelcome to the Qualified Tutor Podcast. The Founder of Qualified Tutor, Julia Silver, talks to us about her academic background, where the idea for the QT course came from, as well as practical aspects such as what the course entails and who it's aimed at. Julia is a fantastic communicator and motivator and her clear and detailed explanation of what exactly this course is and why it is so important for tutors to have training in what they do will leave you asking where you can sign up ... ...
Confidence and Progress: Top Tips for Tutoring
March 12, 2020 07:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBWelcome to The Qualified Tutor Podcast. We'll be speaking to Daniel Sunshine who gives us an insight into how to improve a student's confidence in their own ability, an aspect of tutoring that many students we have spoken to say they have found difficult. Daniel is a highly experienced tutor and his best tips for measuring progress and advice for how to conduct a successful session are not to be missed. Find out more about Daniel's own tutoring services by visiting The Homework Doctor - t...