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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...

Sandra
Jul 2, 20233 min read


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 Pyne
Jun 23, 20232 min read


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
May 7, 20234 min read


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
Apr 23, 20234 min read


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
Mar 26, 20233 min read


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
Feb 17, 20233 min read


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....

Sandra
Jan 22, 20233 min read


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.

Ritchie Kyriacou
Nov 27, 20224 min read


Tutoring with ease with ready-to-go lessons (that children love!)
Tutoring with ease with ready-to-go lessons from Jigsaw Phonics Tutoring

Sandra
Oct 2, 20224 min read


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 18, 20222 min read


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
Sep 10, 20221 min read


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 31, 20221 min read


Still thinking you “just” mark work? Think again!
Discover you transferable teacher skills now!

Jigsaw Phonics Tutoring
Aug 27, 20221 min read


Still thinking you just plan lessons? Think again!
You have all the transferable skills you need to become a private tutor -

Jigsaw Phonics Tutoring
Aug 20, 20221 min read


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

Bríd NíChatháin
Aug 13, 20223 min read


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
Aug 6, 20223 min read


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 30, 20223 min read


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 23, 20223 min read


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

Sandra
Jul 19, 20223 min read
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