Posts Tagged ‘how to become a tutor’

Twenty Totally Tootable Tunes

Friday, October 29th, 2010

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’.

Seal of Approval for our Tutor Guide

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Tutoring: The Complete Guide is quickly establishing itself as the definitive guide to becoming a private tutor in the UK.

As well as featuring in the Times Ed Masterclass Series last month, it has now been made available by Careers Services such as those at Cambridge University and London University. The no.1 university careers portal Prospects.ac.uk has linked to the Guide as one of its recommended resources.

The Royal College of Music Graduate Services division has also been spreading the word, thus demonstrating that it is also a great resource for those interested in becoming musical instrument teachers.

The Guide contains relevant information and advice for new and established tutors alike. And what’s more, it’s free to download.

As an independent review by teachers at Schoolzone remarked:

Tutoring: The Complete Guide tells you all you need to know about how to set up and manage the business of tutoring, including managing tax, contracting clients, effective teaching and so on. If you are a tutor, or are thinking of becoming one, you should certainly read this!