Tutoring made easy: A guide for students, graduates and others.

Learn how to become an amazing tutor with this easy-to-read guide packed full of practical advice, tips and resources.

Tutoring is a popular choice of career and attracts individuals from a range of backgrounds. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased demand for tutors across a range of subjects. You might have picked up this guide because you are considering tutoring for the first time, or because you are looking for ways in which to improve and develop your existing tutoring practice. Maybe you are a university student with subject knowledge but no experience of teaching, a graduate wanting to know the mechanics of setting up a tutoring business, or perhaps you are simply wondering whether or not tutoring could be for you. Wherever you are in your tutoring career, this guide will show you how to plan and deliver effective tutoring sessions, explore ways of assessing and giving feedback to students, advise you how to work effectively with students with additional learning needs, and guide you in finding tutoring work.

Whether you are tutoring maths, English, music, computer coding or a foreign language, you will find effective teaching strategies, clear advice and ready-to-use resources to help you on your journey to becoming a brilliant private tutor.

This guide considers the entire process of tutoring: how to find tutoring work; advertising your services; planning tutoring sessions; preparing effective resources; giving useful feedback; evaluating your practice; assessing students; and how to cope with common difficulties such as disengaged students. This book also includes a comprehensive guide to working with students with additional learning needs (such as dyslexia, autism, ADHD, developmental language disorder and learning difficultues).

Written by an experienced teacher and tutor, this is a practical guide suitable for anybody considering or working as a tutor.