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QT Certified Standards
To effectively support our students, to stay trustworthy and to build a career in tutoring we can love, tutors need standards and after years of trying to squeeze tutoring to fit with teaching standards, we have eventually came up with a model that feels simple enough...
A Comprehensive Guide to Becoming QT Certified: Empowering Independent Tutors
The QT Certification process is a new initiative designed to elevate the stature of independent tutors by providing meaningful independent quality assurance. The QT Certification programme is structured into three key categories: Safe, Skilled and Supported. QT...
How Independent Tutors Can Boost their Reputation with Online Reviews
In today's digital age, online reviews play a significant role in shaping a tutor's reputation. Positive reviews can help attract new students, while negative ones can deter potential clients. Independent tutors, often operating as sole traders or small businesses,...
Technology and Storytelling – How storytelling can supercharge emotional learning and development in children
Do you recall how story time would excite you so much as a kid? There was just something magical about sitting in a circle with peers, eagerly listening to a story read aloud by your teacher, or snuggling up with mum during bedtime to hear your favorite story. ...
Navigating the Parent-Tutor Relationship in Support of Children’s Education: Insights from QT Conversations
In a recent QT Conversations discussion, Julia Silver, Founder of Qualified Tutor, led a thought-provoking dialogue on the challenges and strategies surrounding the relationship between parents and tutors when supporting children's education. The conversation offered...
What does CPD mean to you?
This sounds like a repetitive and obvious question for anyone in education, yet it leads to an array of answers from teachers, tutors and people involved in training and coaching in education. A holistic definition from www.cpduk.co.uk and OUP states that CPD is:...
The Manning’s guide to punctuality Or: how to not be late. By Johnny Manning, Manning’s Tutors
Before I even start typing I can already sense the eye-rolling sighs of tutors who believe themselves to be punctual and that they don’t need Manning’s to tell them how to manage every little part of their job. After all, isn’t it simple? You set off with more time...
Accredit Your Course with Qualified Tutor
If you have created training that you believe is of value to tutors, then we want to accredit it. The accreditation process is simple. It is designed to provide quality assurance and increase your reach. We evaluate your course against the QT Transformational Training...
Hybrid Events Promote Diversity and Inclusivity
I just received this email from a well-known events company whose events were free to attend until now: ‘Non-exhibiting and non-sponsoring companies that sell solutions to the education market will pay from £650 to attend’ Now, I understand that commercial decisions...
Why Love // Tutoring // Festival?
If you know me at all you’ll know that I love words. I love the pictures they make, the stories they carry. Hosting LTF4 this week is a very special moment in our development. Event the title of this event is redolent with messages. With your permission, I will take a...
We are all Participants
After a difficult, but very wonderful year, I have discovered that one question holds the key to my freedom. That question is: ‘Where do I participate?’ For example, I don’t follow current affairs. When my eldest son asks me why I don’t read the news, I tell him,...
Pay Attention: Is it time for parents to give tutoring more headspace? Love Tutoring Think Tank May 2023 QT Paper
Pay Attention: Is it time for parents to give tutoring more headspace? Love Tutoring Think Tank May 2023 QT Paper On a fresh Thursday evening in May 2023, twelve professionals gathered in a hotel near Tower Bridge, central London. Most of the participants were...
What is the difference between £5/hour tutoring and £50/hour tutoring?
There is a question that I take with me wherever I go: What is the difference between a £5/hour tutor and a £50/hour tutor? Recently I discussed this question with a very impressive tutor to learn her thoughts. Melissa Harvey has a degree in French & Spanish with...
How QT Digital Credentials will Transform the Tutoring Profession
No longer do you need to hang your certificates behind your desk so clients know what you’ve achieved. No need to put your trophies on the mantelpiece or hang awards in the downstairs loo. Now your verified credentials can follow you in every communication. My...
Inclusive Quality Assurance: International Tutoring Framework
Leaders in tutoring welcomed the International Tutoring Framework from Qualified Tutor this week in London and online at the Love Tutoring Leadership Festival. ‘I think this is absolutely wonderful and will quickly be recognised by people around the world.’ Kirstin...
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