Month: March 2021

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Top Benefits of Private Tutoring for your Child

Private home tuition has both the educational and personal benefits. Enabling your child to overcome any learning obstacles but also develop their confidence and self-esteem. We’ll cover the following, to help you gauge whether private tutoring could be an ideal option for you and your child:

 

  • What is private tutoring?
  • Educational benefits of private tutoring
  • Personal benefits of private tutoring
  • How Think Tutors can help

 

What is private tutoring?

Private tutoring is academic support provided to children outside of school. It is tailored to your child’s educational needs and capabilities. A private tutor is not required by the national curriculum, sessions can therefore focus on particular subjects or topics, depending on your child’s academic strengths and weaknesses.

 

In 2019, before the pandemic, according to private tuition statistics, 27% of 11-16 year olds in the UK had received a form of private tutoring. Since Covid-19, the demand has only increased.

 

Private tutoring is designed to enhance your child’s academic capabilities in the best way possible. We understand that everyone has different circumstances and needs, therefore we offer varying types of tutoring support bespoke to your child’s needs including:

 

What are the Educational Benefits of Private Tutoring?

Private tutoring with Think Tutors is a unique experience for every child, tailored to their scholastic abilities. It can help them to strive for academic excellence whilst developing their confidence. Educational benefits of private tutoring include:

 

  • One-to-one attention – Private tutoring offers a distraction-free space, which gives your child the one-to-one attention that school’s can’t provide, due to class sizes. One-to- one tutoring also creates an environment where questions are encouraged without the worry of judgement from peers.
  • Customised to learning style – It is vital that tutoring support is personalised, as every child has different capabilities and needs. A private home tutor can customise sessions to your child’s learning style, whether that be by creating visual examples or setting auditory tasks.
  • Break through learning obstacles – One of the biggest educational benefits of private tutoring is that it allows your child to overcome any learning obstacles. A private tutor will adapt to your child’s pace, planning sessions around what they want to achieve.
  • Prevent summer learning loss – Whilst it is important for children to rest, socialise and enjoy the summer holidays, six weeks away from the classroom can have an impact on engagement, confidence and reading levels, in what is known as summer learning loss. Private home tuition can keep your child engaged throughout the summer, and retain what has been learned during term time.

 

If you want to learn more about how our expert private tutors can support your child’s education, get in touch with us today.

What are the Personal Benefits of Private Tutoring?

Alongside the educational benefits of private tutoring, private home tutors can also tailor tuition, taking on a personal approach. Benefits of private tutoring include:

 

  • Flexibility –  One of the biggest advantages of private tutoring is flexibility. Work commitments, extra-curricular activities and busy social lives can make it difficult to find a regular time slot that suits both parents and children. A private tutor can work around your commitments with the flexibility to decide how often your child requires tutoring sessions. This number can be increased during exam season and decreased during school holidays.
  • Working outside of the syllabus – A private tutor isn’t restricted to the school syllabus. This means they can also support your child outside of the curriculum. Private tutoring can develop other study skills, including management, prioritisation and organisation, all of which are transferable skills used in everyday life.
  • Developing confidence and self-esteem – A private tutor is not a parent or teacher, they are a mentor who can nurture your child’s academic abilities and develop their self-confidence. If your child is struggling with a particular subject i.e English or Maths, private tutoring can provide support to enhance those all important grades.
  • Encouraging goals – Along with developing confidence, one of the most important personal benefits of private tutoring is that it encourages your child to have goals, aspirations and dreams. Schools tend to focus on short-term goals such as grades, whereas tutors often encourage students to have long-term aspirations.
  • Promoting educational responsibility – When students dislike school or are struggling with the curriculum, they tend to feel demotivated. Private home tuition can encourage your child to take responsibility for their education whilst they are given the support required to help them flourish.

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There are a myriad of educational and personal advantages of private tutoring; a tutor can give your child one-to-one attention, encourage educational responsibility and act as a mentor to build confidence and self-esteem.

 

From private A Level tutors to mentors, online tutoring and homeschooling, we provide tailored tutoring services to support your child’s education.

 

For details on our fees please visit our pricing page. If you have an enquiry about our private tutoring services, or are keen to know more about mentoring, then please contact us and we will be in touch shortly.

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Educating the ‘NextGen’: Why education should be a focus for Family Office leaders

Family Offices

In a model Family Office, to ensure maximum profitability and family harmony, business and ownership is balanced with family priorities. Whilst there are established guidelines and operational principles in the business and ownership spheres, structures within the family are far more unpredictable. Simply, succession threatens this balance, and Family Offices are worried about the consequences.

 

A service often done ‘in house’, succession planning involves effectively managing social capital, human capital and financial capital to make sure that the following issues are agreed upon:

 

  • Structuring (governance)
  • Tax and estate planning
  • Legal
  • Education and Financial Literacy

 

Whilst measures are in place to ensure governance, tax and estate planning and legal matters are protected, when it comes to education, a bespoke and actionable approach for each child is the most effective way to guarantee stability.

Educational Support and Mentoring

It is not only a school and university education that is vital for Family Offices. 28% of Family Office Leaders with a succession plan see education, technical knowledge, financial literacy, leadership and business experience as key qualities for the NextGen to possess. Equipping the NextGen with not only an excellent education, but sector specific knowledge and experience ensures they can thrive in a leadership position.

 

How can we help?

 

Think Tutors’ education consultants have identified five key steps to ensure the NextGen is ready for leadership:

 

  • Internships
  • Financial literacy
  • Independent school admissions
  • Subject specific tutors
  • Professional mentors

 

We can equip your children with the education they need to become business leaders. Our approach, underpinned by a tailored education strategy, combines on-the-job training with relevant work experience and mentorship.

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How to Nurture your Child’s Creativity

So, why is creativity important? Developing your child’s creative thinking skills not only helps them to perform better at school, research also shows that nurturing creativity in your child can make them happier and more fulfilled.

 

This blog will explore the fundamentals of nurturing your child’s creativity and will cover the following topics:

 

  • How to make a creative environment for your child
  • Improving creativity with creative activities and resources
  • Nurturing creativity through time
  • Building creative confidence in your child
  • How Think Tutors can help

 

At Think Tutors, we offer tutoring support that will complement your creativity nurturing, from Mentoring to Art Tuition. You can contact us online to find out more about how we can support your child with tuition.

How to Make a Creative Environment for your Child

One of the most important ways to nurture your child’s creativity is by giving them a creative environment where they feel safe, comfortable and free to unleash their imagination.

 

There are number of ways in which you can achieve a creative environment for your child:

 

  • Creative home environment – Having a creative environment at home will help your child to feel safe and comfortable to express themselves. Allowing them to think, play, create and express themselves without fear of judgement, providing an environment that helps nurture their skills. Creative activities can often be messy, noisy and chaotic but this should not be seen as a negative as they allow your child to freely develop their creative skills.
  • Go outside – Going outside is a great way of nurturing creativity in your child. There are a limitless number of things to do with your child outside, from inventing their own outdoor games to building objects with sticks and other materials.
  • Mix up your child’s environment – It is important to mix up your child’s environment as a way of nurturing creativity so that they don’t become bored. This could be as simple as moving to a different room in your house to do creative activities, or visiting somewhere new. You and your child could visit a park, museum or art gallery to spark their imagination.

 

At Think Tutors, our Younger Years Tuition combines learning and fun to inspire creativity and to develop core skills that are important for children. Find out more about our Younger Years Tuition.

Improving Creativity with Creative Activities and Resources

Knowing how to improve creative skills is important when nurturing your child. Creative thinking skills can be developed through a variety of activities and resources, such as:

 

  • Creative Resources – Keeping arts and craft materials around the house is a great way to nurture your child’s creativity. Paints, stickers, colouring pens and other creative resources are useful, but you don’t always need expensive materials to inspire your child to be creative. Recycled materials can captivate your child without costing you an extra penny; cardboard boxes, toilet roll holders and empty jars can spark your child’s creativity and encourage them to build their own fun!
  • Open-ended toys – An open-ended toy can be used in multiple ways for multiple purposes, such as building blocks, fancy dress clothes, and play dough. These toys are particularly good for unstructured playtime as your child has free reign over how they use these toys.
  • Role play – Participating in role play activities with your child is a fun way to get involved with nurturing creativity. Role playing as teachers, doctors, vets, popstars, superheroes or princesses develops your child’s problem-solving skills and encourages them to use their imagination.
  • Read, tell stories and talk – Reading and storytelling is a fantastic way of nurturing children’s creativity because it encourages them to visualise and imagine what the stories would look like if they were happening in real life. Also, encouraging your child to invent their own stories will improve their creative thinking skills.

 

You should consider your child’s learning style when deciding on creative activities to do with them. If your child is a kinaesthetic learner, play dough and building blocks are great creative resources, and if your child is an auditory learner, listening to stories and music is a brilliant way to nurture their creativity. Find out more about learning styles in our recent blog post.

Nurturing Creativity Through Time

Time is an important factor to consider when thinking about how you can best nurture children’s creativity. In particular, there are two key elements of time to think about:

 

 

  • Unstructured time – Children are often most creative when they are left alone to do what they want, rather than having a structured and planned out playtime. Allowing your child to have time each day to express themselves in whatever way they want will nurture their creativity and encourage them to use their imagination.
  • Screen time – Technology can be a great way to learn and develop skills, and has been particularly useful during the Covid-19 pandemic, as we have written about in our blog on learning outside of the classroom. However, screen time can limit your child’s creativity because it encourages passive engagement, rather than active engagement. As a result, your child is taking in other people’s creativity (other people’s videos, images, games) rather than creating their own. Reducing screen time, therefore, will help you with nurturing creativity.

 

While it is important to reduce screen time to nurture your child’s creativity, online learning is still an effective way of learning. We offer both in-person tutoring and online tutoring support, depending on your child’s needs. Find out more about how remote working can benefit your child.

Building Creative Confidence in your Child

Building confidence in your child is important in all aspects of their development, but particularly for nurturing creativity. You can develop your child’s confidence with the following:

 

 

  • Open-ended questions – Asking your child open-ended questions encourages them to think for themselves and gives them confidence in what they are doing. If you ask your child questions, they are also more likely to ask you questions and become more open to exploring new things. Open-ended questions are questions that avoid one word answers and usually begin with ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘when’, ‘where’, ‘why’ and ‘how’.
  • Being Different – Reminding your child that it is okay to be different, and that every person is unique, is important because it helps with building creative confidence and encourages them to express themselves in whichever way they please.
  • Lead by example – Leading by example is one of the most important ways of nurturing creativity because your child looks up to you as a role model. If you join in with their role play, draw with them, watch their performances, go on trips outside together or let them see you being creative, it will give your child confidence in their own creativity.

 

Alongside tutoring support, Think Tutors also offers mentoring support to help students reach their full potential in a healthy and happy way.

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So why is creativity important? Being creative allows your child to express themselves, helps them to develop creative thinking skills, perform better in school and live a happier life.

 

Nurturing creativity can be achieved by considering four key factors: environment, creative activities and resources, time, and building creative confidence. You can find out more about how your child can reach their full potential by reading more of our blog posts.

 

Whether your child is in their younger years, studying for the common entrance exam, or a GCSE student, we provide tailored tutoring services available to support them.

 

If you have an enquiry about how to nurture your child’s creativity, or keen to know more about tuition or mentoring, then please contact us and we will be in touch shortly.

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Embarking on a British Education Abroad

Homeschooling (residential and online)

International Homeschooling is Think Tutors most comprehensive option for parents looking to recreate a British Education abroad. With the freedom to design an education to suit the strengths and weaknesses of your children, International Homeschooling is both flexible, convenient, and highly effective. With each assignment tailored to your requirements, we organise travel, accommodation and any other logistical arrangements in addition to schooling.

 

If you have any further questions about Homeschooling, please read our previous insight about whether Homeschooling is the right option for you.

Independent School Entrance

It is a mystery to us why international school placement consultancies don’t always offer tuition for students they are assisting with UK school entrance. We wanted to correct that. We know the UK independent school landscape, and have experience not only helping children through the admissions process, but also guiding families through the entire admissions journey. From choosing the right school, to accepting a place, Think Tutors provides a personalised service to smooth the process for the whole family.

Educational Directors

Think Tutors’ Educational Directors understand education, and are practiced at coordinating a child’s educational journey to ensure that all activities, within and beyond the curriculum, are goal orientated and driven by purpose. Working closely with the entire family, Education Directors perform a variety of functions, including, but not limited to:

 

  • Admissions assistance for nursery, school and university entrance.
  • Tuition across the curriculum.
  • Mentoring.
  • Arranging work experience and internships.
  • Organising high-performance young athletes.

 

Our Educational Directors can speak a number of languages, and are often based permanently outside the UK. If you have any questions about how an Education Director can support your family, please get in touch.

Hourly Tuition

Subject specific tuition can take place both online, or in-person. With options from Early Years and ISEB Pre-Test to Post-Graduate, our close network of professional tutors and elite mentors means subject specific tuition is possible in any location, for any subject, at every level. Our success rates are extraordinarily high, with 100% grade improvement across all ages.

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Parents across the world are interested in investing in an authentic British educational experience. From Singapore to Luxemburg, Think Tutors are trusted providers of international tuition – a clear voice in a sea of noise. If you have any questions about how Think Tutors can help your family, please contact us.