February 2012, I clicked send and submitted my first ever profile as a tutor.
My goal: to earn enough money to provide the kids and I with a summer holiday each year. Just because I now found myself as single, it didn’t mean that they should miss out.
As I write my profile, I explain that I had completed a degree through the Open University in education and that my experience had started with working in early years, I had also worked in a reception class in a mainstream school, and a year 4-5 class. I had worked in a base for children with autism that couldn’t cope in mainstream schools. I had worked as an NVQ assessor, and I had recently closed my childminding business.
Now I had to wait and see what happened, but the fewer the people that knew that I had written the profile the better. The fewer people there would be to judge when I failed.
Someone who would travel to us
A person who would explain things in a way that they understood it
The lessons needed to be relevant.
This became the founding blocks of the business.
In addition, I believed from what I had learned, that if we just gave a child one resource, they would create one memory. If we gave them another similar resource, they would make that memory stronger, but their brain would still only have one place to go to where it could find that particular piece of information. So, we needed to use multiple resources to help to create multiple resources. In addition, the lessons needed to fun so that we could help the child to relax and retain the information that we were giving them, instead of them sitting them in fear of admitting they didn’t understand what we were saying.
What we were doing was very different to how most tutors worked. I hand on heart believe that what we are doing is better.
Since 2012 the business has grown a lot. But I also know that no one will ever have the same emotional attachment to business as the owner will.
I want to provide this creative, personalised, fun-based support to many more children around the country, but I am just one person. I can’t do this by myself. I need help.
With the belief that we all learn differently and that if we are relaxed, we are more susceptible to learning.
Others who recognise that we are all individuals and can not be taught in the same way so that we can support more children using these key principles.
This is why we have kept the costs to a minimum, so that as many people as possible can access the potential to become a franchisee.
Morning,
I hope the week is going well.
So many people seem to be doing D of E and work experience
at the moment, good luck if that’s you and if you’re at Marlow Camp next
fingers crossed for good weather!
I’ve just finished a lesson on division. It seems to be
something that messes with the brains of so many people.
I found it got easier when I stopped thinking about it as
division and instead thought about it as multiplication. So, if for example I
had the question 396 divided by 3, I would look at it as 3x what = 3. My answer
would be 1. How many times would I need to multiply 3 to get to 9, (my answer
would be 3). Then 3x something = 6. My answer would be 2. Giving me the overall
answer of 132.
I know that’s a really simple example but hopefully it explains
my point.
Thankfully in schools they don’t often seem to need to do
long division, but I’ve worked with a couple of adults (generally nurses for
some reason) who have needed it.
I think I’ll explain this one in a video, as it will be too
complicated to explain it with words as bits get put all over the place. I hope
this makes sense though:
Enjoy the rest of the week and speak soon,
Dawn