Markus Curry2025-11-05T22:45:09+11:00Posted in All Categories, Organizing Lessons, Parent Advice
How Much Tutoring Does My Child Need?Students will require different amounts of tuition based on several factors:Current academic standing: The worse their current performance, the more effort it will take to improve.Goals: The more ambitious their goals, the more effort it will take to reach them.Grade level: The ..
Gene2025-11-06T21:33:26+11:00Posted in All Categories, Organizing Lessons, Relationships: Parent, Student &Tutor, Structuring Lessons
Dealing with a Student Who Chooses Free School Tutoring Over Private TuitionOne student stopped her tutoring because she gained access to free tutoring at her school. Despite my efforts to convince her and her parents that continuing with me would be better since she was accustomed to my ..
Gene2025-11-06T22:31:21+11:00Posted in All About Exams, Coaching, Mentoring & Reflection, Organizing Lessons, Relationships: Parent, Student &Tutor
A student's parents want to stop tutoring after his exam but I think he needs to continue as we've only really just begun and I feel he will just forget everything and go back to how he was before. ✨ It is probably a good idea to speak ..
Gene2025-11-06T06:51:37+11:00Posted in All Categories, Organizing Lessons, Starting Tutoring, Structuring Lessons
One of my students has been sick for the last few weeks and has thus missed a substantial amount of maths - any tips for catching them up?This is a fairly common scenario in tutoring. Here are some suggestions.1. Get the Student on Side 💪First get the student ..
Gene2025-11-08T00:08:56+11:00Posted in All About Exams
Challenges in TeachingMy student’s teacher did not specify which topics will be taught in the coming weeks and assessed in the next exam. I was not able to teach him in advance most of the modules. This means he has several knowledge gaps so I have been trying ..
EzyMath2025-11-06T06:33:01+11:00Posted in All Categories, Organizing Lessons, Senior & High School Learning
Why Holiday Tutoring is EssentialI have a couple of students who are going into year 11 next year. They absolutely need tutoring during the holidays to make next year less stressful for them. There are many gaps to cover, and working ahead will give them a confidence boost. ..
EzyMath2025-11-06T22:32:59+11:00Posted in All Categories, Coaching, Mentoring & Reflection, Relationships: Parent, Student &Tutor
One of my students needs more lessons (2 in a week) but her mother says one lesson is sufficient. She is failing before I get an opportunity to teach her and i am hoping to get more than 65percent with more lessons but they don't agree. How can ..
EzyMath2025-11-06T22:29:58+11:00Posted in All Categories, Motivation & Interest, Relationships: Parent, Student &Tutor
One student’s parents want to stop tutoring after his exam but i think he needs to continue as we've only really just begun and i feel he will just forget everything and go back to how he was before.This is a really common situation 🤔. There are two ..
EzyMath2025-11-07T20:42:31+11:00Posted in All Categories, Starting Tutoring, Structuring Lessons
My year 10 student is struggling overall with her maths, she is in the lowest class at and is finding it difficult to solve almost every type of equation and she barely knows her times tables without looking them up in a chart. Is there anything i can ..
EzyMath2025-11-06T21:25:20+11:00Posted in All About Exams, Structuring Lessons
One of my students, Sarah, has just performed very poorly in her exam, scoring in the 40s. We’ve been working together for a few months and it seemed to going ok but her performance was FAR below expectations. I’m not sure what to say to the client ..
