A good tutor should be prepared for each lesson. Tutors should provide their own resources that the pupils will need in each lesson. This should, at the bear minimum, include a range of syllabus related text books, and would be a valuable advantage if the tutor also supplies exam papers.
Past Exam Papers
Past exam papers for GCSE and A-Levels can be purchased from examination boards. Examination boards can also provide you with a current syllabus and notes for teachers and tutors. It is strongly advisable that these are purchased and studied each academic year. Tutors Teaching GSCE and A-level subjects must have these resources, and can make use of past exam papers many times over. Many boarding schools still use common exam entrance papers which can be obtained from ISEB. SATs exam papers should be available from Blackwells and WH Smiths. It is also worth contacting the School that the student attends, in some cases, they may be helpful enough to provide a local tutor with past exam papers and an up to date syllabus plan.
Examination Boards
A list of exam boards that you can contact for these resources follows bellow:
(ISEB)
Independent Schools Examinations Board
Jordan House
Christchurch Road
New Milton BH25 6QJ
Tel: 01425 621111
Fax: 01425 620044
Website: iseb.co.uk
(AQA North)
Assessment and Qualifications Alliance
Devas Street
Manchester M15 6EX
Tel: 0161 953 1180
Fax: 0161 455 5444
Website: aqa.org.uk
(AQA South)
Assessment and Qualifications Alliance
Stag Hill house
Guilford
Surrey GU2 5XJ
Tel: 01483 506 506
Fax: 01483 300 152
Website: aqa.org.uk
City and Guilds
1 Giltspur Street
London EC1A 9DD
Tel: 020 7294 2800
Fax: 020 7294 2400
Website: city-and-guilds.co.uk
Edexcel
190 High Holborn
London WC1V 7BH
Tel: 0870 240 9800
Fax: 020 7190 5700
Website: edexcel.org.uk
(CCEA)
Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum Examinations and Assessment
29 Clarendon Road
Belfast BT1 3BG
Tel: 02890 261 200
Fax: 02890 261 234
Website: ccea.org.uk
Next we will discuss the need to have experience, or come from a teaching profession, how much of an advantage is this? and can you teach if you don’t already have teaching experience?
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