We’ve been working hard on the new Tutor Pages Facebook Page, and congratulations to Martin for having cracked it.
On the Page, you’ll find a mini Tutor Pages interface (with the latest Editor’s Pick articles, latest tutors, blog posts etc) and news and updates about the world of private tuition on the Wall.
Do check it out, and remember to Like our Page if you’d like to stay in touch with the latest news and ideas on private tuition.
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Ideas Tap is a fantastic resource to help young creative people at the start of their careers.
Not only does it offer funding and other opportunities for young people, it now has over 30,000 individuals networking via its website, and a magazine offering up-to-date insight into working in the creative industries.
Just recently, Maddie York wrote an article on the concept of “Teach Second” – the idea that tutoring in its many forms is emerging as a secondary income for those in the early stages of breaking into the creative professions.
She writes, ‘In my circle of friends and contacts, I have a couple of concert pianists who are earning money by teaching piano, an artist who gives workshops, an author and academic who teaches English, and a playwright who works in an inflatable planetarium presenting science shows to children’.
The article goes on to recommend The Tutor Pages as a good place to get advice on setting up as a private tutor.
You can read the rest of her article here – why not consider joining the Ideas Tap community while you’re there?
It’s Friday, and as a musical counterpart to last week’s post about The Little Algebra Book, I’m pleased to say that another tutor registered with us, Trixi Field, has recently created a new book for the recorder. Called Twenty Totally Tootable Tunes, it is (in Trixi’s words) ‘more of a repertoire book to supplement teaching books, and book 1 of the series is for kids that are able to play between one and 7 notes’.
You can check it out on Trixi’s Lulu page – perhaps a good stocking filler?
As an aside, I also recommend that tutors have a look at Trixi’s own page on The Tutor Pages: it’s a really great example of using our site’s features to the full. In fact, Trixi wrote to me to say that she ‘enjoyed putting all my extra bits and pieces on the site. It works very well and there are lots of different spaces to put various resources. Well done for a very user-friendly site’.
Henry Fagg is the founder of The Tutor Pages, an advice and information portal which includes a directory of UK tutors. He blogs on anything that impacts the world of private tuition.
