Supporting our tutors to be their very best

For colleagues, our learning opportunities come in the form of well-being benefits and an annual individual training budget to access courses for personal and professional growth.

And for our team of tutors, the high-quality training they receive at the outset of their career with us is just the start of an almost-limitless learning journey!

After successfully completing training, new tutors have access to a range of support including our peer mentoring programme, one-to-one sessions with our Tutor Engagement Manager, Ellie, coaching opportunities with Quality Manager, Jeni, face-to-face drop-in sessions, and our Guild online community. In addition, on our fantastic online learning and development platform Thinqi, tutors have access to tutorials and CPD opportunities to hone their tutoring skills and prepare for their future careers. And, best of all, all these opportunities are FREE!

Tutor development opportunities over the last few months have included CPD sessions on GCSE Maths, English, and Science for those supporting Year 11 pupils, a session on the importance of building strong relationships, and tutorials on preparing for a first assignment, supporting well-being, and improving literacy during tuition, as well as dozens of others.

Alongside our qualified teaching staff, external experts also lead CPD sessions, and these include former tutor Shaun Barton, now Course Director of KS5 Mathematics at Trinity CofE High School, Manchester, and Liz Birchinall, Programme Director Primary PGCE at the University of Manchester.

Our tutors have rated all sessions over the last year as either ‘good’ or ‘excellent’.  One wrote after Shaun Barton’s session on GCSE Maths: “Shaun was very easy to listen to and explained things brilliantly!  I cannot think of anything that I won't take away from this.”