Sneak a look into the future with this special, two-part series into the “future of tutoring” from the Minerva HQ. In Part One, we’ll discuss why tutoring has a future in the first place, as well as the shift toward online work and the changing trends in homeschooling. Part Two, will concentrate on bigger, more hypothetical shifts, whilst also focusing on … Read More
How Are Parents Coping with Lockdown Homeschooling in the UK?
It’s tough to juggle your child’s UK homeschooling curriculum with your own commitments. It’s nearly three months since the beginning of nationwide homeschooling in the UK—but for many parents, it feels more like three years. The closure of UK schools to the vast majority of children took hold on Monday, 23 March 2020. For most mums and dads, any utopian … Read More
5 Ways Lockdown Could Change Education – It’s Not Just About Online Homeschooling
The COVID-19 crisis has forced parents and experts to reevaluate the priorities of education. Some changes have been positive, including online homeschooling and technology developments, and could be here for good. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced radical changes in every facet of our lives—and education is no exception. What lessons is lockdown teaching us, and how might they alter the … Read More
Tales Of Mischief – Roald Dahl Creative Writing Homeschooling Lesson
Writing MISCHIEVOUS STORIES with Kaiya INSPIRED BY ROALD DAHL Read the amazing mischievous passage from Roald Dahl’s Boy at the bottom of this page and spot all the ways he makes the story exciting and draws us in: similes and metaphors, vivid details and descriptions, dramatic use of exclamation points, leaving us on a cliffhanger at the end…these are all … Read More
Coronavirus is changing the way we educate and it’s eye-opening
Minerva Tutors, the UK’s leading private tuition agency, reveals some fascinating insights about how coronavirus is affecting the way their tutors are teaching, and what ‘the new normal’ might mean for the world of education. The following advice is a summary of the minutes taken from a recent tutor training meeting, which included ten highly experienced online tutors. How to … Read More
Coronavirus Action Plan
Minerva Tutors would like to reassure our families, tutors, and staff that our first priority is safeguarding the health and wellbeing of all in our network at this time. Here is our Coronavirus Action Plan. Here are our aims concerning our staff and the continuing ordinary functioning of the business: to minimise the spread of the infection to safeguard everyone’s … Read More