The value of quarterly planning in your tutoring business
What is quarterly planning? It’s simply a structured way of prioritizing how you plan to develop and improve your tutoring business over...
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Sandra Pyne
- Jun 23
- 2 min
Creating your Dream Tutoring Business
It was so good to talk to Melitta Campbell about starting your dream tutoring business on her podcast The Driven Female Entrepreneur. ...
Sandra
- May 7
- 4 min
Trick the robot: making phonics effective in early literacy tutoring
How Trick the robot makes literacy and phonics tutoring really effective for young learners.
Sandra
- Apr 23
- 4 min
Meet Wug the alien!
Potentially unpopular opinion here, but I am not a fan of using alien words to teach or tutor phonics and early literacy. Alien words...
Sandra
- Mar 26
- 3 min
How to start your tutoring business: part 1
6 action steps to make your tutoring business idea a reality Few teachers are business experts and when you start a new business you have...
Sandra
- Feb 17
- 3 min
Adaptive phonics and literacy tutoring for EAL learners
Adaptive tutoring for EAL (English as an Additional Language) learners is a method of tutoring that is tailored to the specific needs and...
Sandra
- Jan 22
- 3 min
Bust these myths to get excited about starting your tutoring business!
It’s always easy to find reasons not to do something. But sometimes those reasons are just not valid. So they hold us back needlessly....
Ritchie Kyriacou
- Nov 27, 2022
- 4 min
Your job - quit or stay?
Your job - quit or stay. If you are teacher thinking of quitting to change career or start your own tutoring business, here's how.
Sandra
- Oct 2, 2022
- 4 min
Tutoring with ease with ready-to-go lessons (that children love!)
Tutoring with ease with ready-to-go lessons from Jigsaw Phonics Tutoring
Jigsaw Phonics Tutoring
- Sep 18, 2022
- 2 min
Help! I'd like to start tutoring but I have so many questions!
You'd like to stat your own tutoring business but you have so many questions. Here are the answers!
Jigsaw Phonics Tutoring
- Sep 10, 2022
- 1 min
Still thinking you "just" talk to parents? Think again!
When you communicate with parents, you are working in and understand public relations. That means your transferable skills are: awareness...
Jigsaw Phonics Tutoring
- Aug 31, 2022
- 1 min
Still thinking you "just" manage a classroom? Think again!
When you manage a classroom, you are using high-level leadership skills. That means your transferable skills are: effective communication...
Jigsaw Phonics Tutoring
- Aug 27, 2022
- 1 min
Still thinking you “just” mark work? Think again!
Discover you transferable teacher skills now!
Jigsaw Phonics Tutoring
- Aug 20, 2022
- 1 min
Still thinking you just plan lessons? Think again!
You have all the transferable skills you need to become a private tutor -
Bríd NíChatháin
- Aug 13, 2022
- 3 min
5 top tips for private literacy tutors to enhance reading comprehension
5 practical and effective ways to support reading comprehension for teachers, parents and private tutors
Sandra
- Aug 6, 2022
- 3 min
Is handwriting falling off a cliff with the use of laptops and tablets?
I remember being asked by one parent why we bother to teach handwriting. His point being: won't we all be using laptops and computers at...
Sandra
- Jul 30, 2022
- 3 min
6 ways for private tutors to spot reading and spelling challenges in young learners: part 2
How can you spot literacy difficulties in those children who have started school and are having their first reading and writing lessons?...
Sandra
- Jul 23, 2022
- 3 min
5 ways for tutors to spot reading and spelling challenges in young learners: part 1
As a parent, teacher or private tutor, how can you spot literacy difficulties in those children who have started school and are having...
Sandra
- Jul 19, 2022
- 3 min
6 ways to support reading and spelling at home, at school or as a private tutor
6 ways to support reading and spelling at home and at school for learners who have literacy challenges
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