The Online Tutoring Playbook for schools
Introducing: The Online Tutoring Playbook for schools, now updated for 2023-24!
The UK has an attainment gap – that’s no secret. And the pandemic only helped it grow. Schools around the country are looking for new ways to meet the needs of their learners, but with growing class sizes, teachers often find themselves struggling to provide the kind of individualised help that pupils need.
That’s where online tutoring comes in.
Thousands of schools across England now use 3:1 and 1:1 tuition as a part of their strategy, so that when pupils are struggling with a tricky topic or not quite making their expected grades, they can get the personalised help they need to plug learning gaps and get support feeling more confident about their exams.
The results speak for themselves. The EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit recognises both 3:1 and 1:1 tuition as a high-impact strategy for giving pupils, especially those who come from disadvantaged backgrounds, the support they need.
Here at MyTutor, we’ve been partnering with schools to deliver online tutoring since 2016 – since then we’ve delivered 1M+ lessons to more than 200,000 pupils across 1,300+ schools and trusts. On average, we’ve found that MyTutor pupils improve by one whole grade in just one term of lessons – that’s 2.5x the progress of their peers.
Online tutoring is a powerful tool, one that's not designed to replace teaching but to work alongside it. Like with any new strategy, implementing online tutoring at your school might seem a bit daunting at first – that’s why the team at MyTutor have put our heads together to create the Online Tutoring Playbook for schools. It’s exactly what it says on the tin – a complete guide to the ins and outs of bringing online tutoring into your school and making it a fully integrated part of your pupils’ learning, so they can start reaping the benefits.
Here’s what you’ll learn in the Online Tutoring Playbook
- Why tutoring works, and why online beats in-person tutoring
- The pros of using undergrad and recent grad tutors
- How schools can fund online tutoring in 2023
- How other schools use tutoring, in their own words
- Top tips for running a successful tutoring programme
- The three steps to getting set up with MyTutor
