Comments on: Government One-to-One Tuition Programme: will it work? http://www.thetutorblog.com/2010/01/government-one-to-one-tuition-programme-will-it-work/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:31:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Tutor Guy http://www.thetutorblog.com/2010/01/government-one-to-one-tuition-programme-will-it-work/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Tutor Guy Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:31:04 +0000 http://www.thetutorblog.com/?p=237#comment-25 I wish here in Canada we realized the importance of one-to-one learning. From my experiences as a certified teacher working in the school system most students that needed help are unable to get help from their regular classroom teacher. Only few students that are assessed with a learning disability receive individual help from a teacher’s assistant. The thought of hiring 100,000 tutors is mind blowing. I wish we would take the same approach here in Canada. I am curious if the UK has standards in place for tutors. In Canada most tutors are university students and there are very few professional tutors. I wish here in Canada we realized the importance of one-to-one learning. From my experiences as a certified teacher working in the school system most students that needed help are unable to get help from their regular classroom teacher. Only few students that are assessed with a learning disability receive individual help from a teacher’s assistant. The thought of hiring 100,000 tutors is mind blowing. I wish we would take the same approach here in Canada. I am curious if the UK has standards in place for tutors. In Canada most tutors are university students and there are very few professional tutors.

]]> By: Atul Rana http://www.thetutorblog.com/2010/01/government-one-to-one-tuition-programme-will-it-work/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Atul Rana Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:23:34 +0000 http://www.thetutorblog.com/?p=237#comment-17 When I first heard about this scheme as a tutor I was really happy to hear about this. It is tutoring for a greater cause while still being able to earn my bread and butter. I checked out the criteria to apply. Sadly I found that I had to have QTS, which to me sounded pretty silly as I had already had 2 years of highly specialist experience in tutoring one to one Maths and my references speak for themselves. There are loads of capable tutors out there (I would argue that the skills needed to be a one-to-one tutor are actually quite different from a classroom teacher). If they lifted this requirement I am sure more tutors would come up. The market is *full* of new graduates this year who haven't got a job. Sure they might not be school teachers but a Maths graduate from a top university who is out of work could easily make a good tutor. When I first heard about this scheme as a tutor I was really happy to hear about this. It is tutoring for a greater cause while still being able to earn my bread and butter. I checked out the criteria to apply.

Sadly I found that I had to have QTS, which to me sounded pretty silly as I had already had 2 years of highly specialist experience in tutoring one to one Maths and my references speak for themselves.

There are loads of capable tutors out there (I would argue that the skills needed to be a one-to-one tutor are actually quite different from a classroom teacher).

If they lifted this requirement I am sure more tutors would come up. The market is *full* of new graduates this year who haven’t got a job. Sure they might not be school teachers but a Maths graduate from a top university who is out of work could easily make a good tutor.

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