Coffee and a Tutoring Chat: Working with the child in front of you today

I think we sometimes come to a lesson with preconceived ideas.This was something I learned as a child when every teacher that had encountered my brother would point out that I'm not as clever as him...There is also the danger that we have preconceived ideas about the child that we are working with: a dyslexic child will struggle to spell. A child on the spectrum will want to follow the same routine every time. A child with ADHD will struggle to concentrate.But I think for everyone, we have good days and bad days. Days where we feel like we have the world on our shoulders and days when we feel like we could move mountains. If that is the case for the child you are working with, embrace that. Finish 5-minutes earlier and end on a high. Add 5-minutes so that you don’t crush the momentum that you have been building.Work with that child you see before you, not the preconceived idea of who you think it should be.I recently wrote a book: Become a Tutor. Build Confidence. Change Lives. It answers the questions that I had when I first started tutoring. If you would like a free copy (no strings attached just a gift from me to you) drop me an email at [email protected] and I will happily drop a copy in the post for you