Writing for working tutors
Short, practical, and free of invented statistics. It starts small on purpose — one real article beats ten thin ones.
How much should you charge for tutoring?
Most tutors set their rate by asking what others charge. That answers the wrong question — it tells you what the market tolerates, not what your practice needs to survive. Here is the backwards way, which is the right way.
21 August 2026 · 6 min read
How to find your first tutoring students
Almost every guide to finding tutoring students starts with where to advertise. That is the last question, not the first. The tutors who fill a roster quickly are usually not the ones with the best listing — they are the ones whose first three students had a reason to mention them.
28 August 2026 · 7 min read
How to plan a tutoring lesson
A one-to-one lesson is not a class with fewer people in it. The plan that works in a classroom — introduce, practise, produce, for thirty students at once — wastes the one advantage tutoring has, which is that you can see exactly what this student cannot do yet.
28 August 2026 · 7 min read
What the CEFR levels actually mean
The CEFR is the scale everyone quotes and few people use precisely. Its six labels are not difficulty bands or vocabulary counts — they are descriptions of what a person can do with a language, which is why two students at the same level can look nothing alike.
28 August 2026 · 8 min read
A cancellation policy that survives real families
Every tutor eventually writes a cancellation policy, usually after a bad month. The ones that hold up are not the strictest — they are the ones a reasonable family reads once, understands completely, and never has to argue about.
28 August 2026 · 7 min read
Homework students actually do
The homework problem is rarely motivation. Ask a student who did not do it what stopped them and the answer is usually structural: it was too long, it was unclear, it arrived as a page reference, or they had no idea whether they had done it right.
28 August 2026 · 6 min read
Tracking progress without a spreadsheet
Almost every tutor starts a spreadsheet. Almost every tutor stops updating it around week six. The failure is not discipline — it is that the spreadsheet asks for the wrong thing at the wrong moment.
28 August 2026 · 6 min read
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