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  • Mezzo_Bill wrote: »
    I am puzzled by your post. The focus of your ire seems to be unqualified maths tutors. Yet you quote as your example susie wong, who from her earlier posts can be seen to be a qualified teacher or at least someone who worked as a classroom teacher of maths and has experience of school teaching methods.
    Thank you! Yes I am indeed a qualified teacher, with 10 years experience of being Head of Maths at a very academic independent school. I fail to see how this makes me unsuitable to be tutoring, and having had over 45 pupils in 10 years, 44 of whom came from personal recommendations, I think I must be doing something right!!!:rotfl:
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  • stugall
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    You can;t beat Fleet Tutors.

    They pay £18 per hour, plus a travel allowance of £3 or £4, they are very professional and pay at the end of each month.

    They are always looking for new (well qualified) tutors, with a good degree and GTC registration. They work with many local authorities, and book tutors to do 10 hours of lessons with each student (initially).

    I couldn;t recommend a better company. Next best: personal-tutors.co.uk

    S.
  • stugall wrote: »
    You can;t beat Fleet Tutors.

    They pay £18 per hour, plus a travel allowance of £3 or £4, they are very professional and pay at the end of each month.

    They are always looking for new (well qualified) tutors, with a good degree and GTC registration. They work with many local authorities, and book tutors to do 10 hours of lessons with each student (initially).

    I couldn;t recommend a better company. Next best: personal-tutors.co.uk

    S.

    Do you have to pay to register with Fleet Tutors?
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  • suzie_wong
    suzie_wong Posts: 387 Forumite
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    Do you have to pay to register with Fleet Tutors?

    No, you don't have to pay. I am in the process of registering. They are quite picky about who they will take on (not suggesting they wouldn't take you on, riverakid! but just to let you know.)

    You fill out a basic form online and they will call you back and 'interview' you- just a few basic questions- why you want to work for them, do you have qualified teacher status etc. If you have a degree but no teaching certificate, you are only allowed to teach the subject that you have a degree in. Obviously if you have a teaching qualification, that is different, and you are allowed to teach core subjects etc appropriate to your training (whether it be primary or secondary). Once they have decided you are OK, they e-mail you registration documents, and you have to provide 2 referees, copy of passport, CRB check, CV, copies of qualifications etc!!! ie quite a lot but then I approve of the fact that they really look into who they will take on, unlike other sites that take no responsibility for who is registered with them.

    So far I have found Fleet Tutors to be friendly and efficient- I only filled in the forms online on Sunday evening, and they called me on Monday afternoon, and had the documents e-mailed to me by the evening.
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  • Following my earlier post about the downside of tutoring being the lack of summer holiday work, I was wondering if anyone here has experience of and advice to give on finding paid work as and on being a tour guide to tourists visiting their local area. I was thinking of work on a sessional basis in the summer.
    Although there are group management issues to this role, the ability to acquire a body of knowledge quickly and accurately (probably historical and geographical) which is then to be presented to others in a lively and interesting way, with a fund of appropriate anecdotes, is surely a good fit to tutoring and teaching skills. My main subjects are Maths and Science. These are not as useful as say, history for this role, but my English to Speakers of Other Languages qualification (Trinity Certificate) might help with summer English language schools that organise trips for their students. Anyone have any thoughts on this topic?
  • suzie_wong wrote: »
    No, you don't have to pay. I am in the process of registering. They are quite picky about who they will take on (not suggesting they wouldn't take you on, riverakid! but just to let you know.)

    You fill out a basic form online and they will call you back and 'interview' you- just a few basic questions- why you want to work for them, do you have qualified teacher status etc. If you have a degree but no teaching certificate, you are only allowed to teach the subject that you have a degree in. Obviously if you have a teaching qualification, that is different, and you are allowed to teach core subjects etc appropriate to your training (whether it be primary or secondary). Once they have decided you are OK, they e-mail you registration documents, and you have to provide 2 referees, copy of passport, CRB check, CV, copies of qualifications etc!!! ie quite a lot but then I approve of the fact that they really look into who they will take on, unlike other sites that take no responsibility for who is registered with them.

    So far I have found Fleet Tutors to be friendly and efficient- I only filled in the forms online on Sunday evening, and they called me on Monday afternoon, and had the documents e-mailed to me by the evening.


    OK, thanks. At the moment I'm so busy I'm turning new enquiries away. I will keep them in mind for the future though.
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  • suzie_wong
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    At the moment I'm so busy I'm turning new enquiries away. I will keep them in mind for the future though.

    Me too.... I had a session become free the other day as a pupil I used to teach on a weekday moved to a Saturday. I filled out the application form with Fleet Tutors on Sunday night, and by the time they called on Monday I had filled the place. I will be losing some pupils in May/ June though, when they do their GCSEs, so I am carrying on with the registration in case I have spaces left in the summer. I can't afford to not be 'full' at the moment, unfortunately.
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  • fossil
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    There's also examination marking that teachers can do to get extra cash. I haven't read every single post under this topic, so hope it has not been mentioned already.

    I wrote an article for the Times Ed magazine about tutoring last year, including tips as well as info. about CRBs, agencies, prices etc. Am I allowed to post a link?

    Dawn
  • fossil wrote: »
    There's also examination marking that teachers can do to get extra cash. I haven't read every single post under this topic, so hope it has not been mentioned already.

    I wrote an article for the Times Ed magazine about tutoring last year, including tips as well as info. about CRBs, agencies, prices etc. Am I allowed to post a link?

    Dawn

    If you can't post a link, can you PM it to me please? I'd like to read it.
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  • suzie_wong
    suzie_wong Posts: 387 Forumite
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    fossil wrote: »
    I wrote an article for the Times Ed magazine about tutoring last year, including tips as well as info. about CRBs, agencies, prices etc. Am I allowed to post a link?

    Dawn

    I would also be interested in reading this! Please PM me as well! Thank you.
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