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Tutoring

What we do & why we do it:

Students can find themselves having trouble in certain subject areas in school. Sometimes, a different method or way of teaching can greatly improve this!

Tutoring can be extremely beneficial to students. It provides personalized attention, often improves grades, increases motivation, offers at your own pace learning, improves self-esteem, and encourages higher levels of learning.

Whether you’re struggling with a subject or not, tutoring can greatly benefit students and lead to extra success while in school!

The tutoring service we provide to schools is in place to assist students as effectively and efficiently as possible.

This is ensured through the targeted tuition we can provide.

All Junior Genius students will be examined early in the year, the data produced is collated and analysed by us to identify “problem areas” which we can seek to improve in a number of ways; one of these is academic tutoring!

We believe the tuition we provide greatly benefits each student and helps to develop their overall academic ability in schools.

This hypothesis has been backed by a large number of previous students and schools that we have worked and are continuing to work with.

How it will work for your school:

These group tutoring sessions take place on a weekly basis for a duration of 8 weeks.

We will be in constant communication with you throughout this process to keep you updated and aware of student progress.

Session times and dates are flexible and can be arranged to suit your timetabling requirements but are generally ‘after school’ group classes.

Tutors will provide homework, in class activities and assessments to help develop students understanding of the identified “problem areas”.

All tutors who attend these classes are highly experienced to ensure the best quality learning environment for students.

Policy & benefits to you:

In a recent and one of the largest academic studies completed by ‘The Sutton Trust’ they found that: “Fee-paying pupils are three and a half times more likely than FSM (free school meals) pupils to attain five GCSEs with grades A*-C including English and maths; but by age 18, they are over 22 times more likely to enter a highly selective university”

We believe that the targeted tuition applied to students in specific and identified problem areas greatly increases their academic confidence and ability in the classroom and greatly helps in contributing to noted improvements in academic performance to help close this apparent gap between publicly and privately educated studen

Our Research has shown that well-designed tutoring programs that use volunteers and other non professionals as tutors can be effective in improving children's reading skills. Students with below-average reading skills who are tutored by volunteers show significant gains in reading skills when compared with similar students who do not receive tutoring from a quality tutoring program. Among the features of tutoring programs associated with the most positive gains are extensive training for tutors, formal time commitments by tutors, structured tutoring sessions, careful monitoring of tutoring services, and close relationships between classroom instruction and curriculum and the tutoring services provided.

Our Research shows the following about, tutoring: Tutoring programs that incorporate rese arch-based elements produce improvements in reading achievement; and Tutoring can also lead to improvements in self confidence about reading, motivation for reading, and behaviour, both among tutees and among peer or cross-age tutors.

We have also discovered that the factors that generate the most consistent positive achievement for tutees: (1) Close coordination with the classroom or reading teacher; (2) Intensive and ongoing training for tutors; (3) Well-structured tutoring sessions in which the content and delivery of instruction is carefully scripted; (4) Careful monitoring and reinforcement of progress;

We need you to fund this programme so poor students from disadvantaged backgrounds can truly excel

Generating Genius is an education charity that aims to make high- quality, affordable tuition available to disadvantaged pupils. The charity hires and trains undergraduates and recent graduates who provide small group or one to one support to learners. Tutors are paid for their work, but will deliver one in every seven lessons free of charge. The business model promises to make tuition affordable to disadvantaged schools, as well as making the Trust financially self-sufficient in the long run. The Trust will focus initially on English and Maths tuition for GCSE pupils, but will ultimately expand to other subjects and age groups.

The evidence of the impact of one to one and small group tuition is strong. However, tuition is relatively expensive. There is also evidence of unmet demand from schools for affordable tuition, particularly outside of London. The Trust's unique operating model will equip it to meet this demand by providing a good service at sustainably low rates. If effective, the project could be scaled up to other university towns.

We have evaluated our first cohort of students and they have increased their point scores by 20 per cent. This has taken them away from failing to passing exams in the core subjects. For poor students this is life changing in terms of job prospects and further education.

We are not just appealing for funds but for ideas on how our tuition programme can be more effective. Our tutors come to the schools of our students and they run their lessons after- class. How can we more effective going forward.