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Teaching, online and in the centre
Running online lessons, onboarding tutors and planning the year around school terms, with the teaching tools tutoring centres use every day.
A tutor has an hour a week with a child; what decides whether that child improves is often the other six days. Students need practice that explains their mistakes, tutors need tools that show an idea clearly, and new tutors need to start well.
XLesson is the online classroom and XInk the board in it. The maths tools put an accurate picture on that board, spelling and reading gives children practice that teaches between lessons, and staff training brings every new tutor up to the same standard.
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6 min readRunning online tutoring lessons that workHow to run online tutoring lessons well: equipment, a shared whiteboard, a waiting room, camera checks, parents in the room and child safety.
7 min readOnboarding a new tutor: the first two weeksA two-week plan for onboarding a new tutor: the NSW Working with Children Check, child safety training, shadowing, subject clearance and feedback.
6 min readPlanning a tutoring year around NSW school termsPlan your tutoring centre's year around NSW school terms, holidays, the HSC, NAPLAN and the selective and OC tests, with the published dates.
5 min readKnowing when every student's school exams areHow a tutoring centre can collect school exam and assessment dates from families, so tutors plan lessons backwards from each one in time.
6 min readLesson wrap-ups and parent updates in five minutesThe five minutes after a tutoring lesson: notes for the centre, an update the parent reads, homework due next lesson, and every figure checked.
7 min readTeaching in your centre's own online classroomOnline lessons in your centre's own classroom: who can join and when, the waiting room, the shared board, parents taking part and the tutor's controls.
6 min readSpelling and reading practice that sticksWhy weekly spelling lists are forgotten by Monday, and how a tutoring centre can give children practice that explains every mistake between lessons.
6 min readMaths tools that help tutors explain it onceHow tutors can show a maths idea clearly, hand the same set-up to the student, and put it on the lesson board: graphs, hands-on models and worked steps.
5 min readTeaching children to type, from the home row upWhy hunt-and-peck holds children back, and how a tutoring centre can teach proper typing that puts accuracy first and shows parents real progress.
5 min readLearning streaks that never punish a childWhy streaks that break on a busy weekend backfire with children, and how a learning goal and a pet can reward practice without guilt or shame.
6 min readA training academy for your tutorsHow a tutoring centre can train every new tutor the same way, check they know their subject before they teach it, and keep a record of who did what.
In XTutio
The tools for it
Guides
Step by step
- The online classroom and home tutoringTeach online in the app with a shared whiteboard, or at a family's home with your own rules and a recorded day.
- The training academy and payrollAssign training templates, clear tutors by subject test, choose whether training is paid, and run pay for Xero Payroll.
