The Qualified Tutor Podcast

In our first episode dedicated to vocabulary, we explore the intricacies of this field and central importance to education through the lens of the published works of a children's author.

Sheena Ager journey to authorship came about differently to most. Sheena wrote her first book, Tangled Time, part of the Cadwaladr Quests serial, with and for her reluctant reader son when he was studying for his 11+ exams. After seeing him struggle with reading and understanding the tricky vocabulary that the exams required, Sheena decided to pen a book that allowed children to greatly increase their range of vocabulary, alongside a fascinating plotline reminiscent of some of the great works of the mythical, medieval genre.

With context-specific definitions on each page and passages packed full of creative, powerful vocabulary, as well as related workbooks to go alongside, the books were, and are, a smash hit. Follow the link below to grab a copy for you and your students/your own children.

And watch out for more to come ...

Next steps:

• Find everything on Sheena's website: slager.co.uk
• Pick up a copy of the first book, Tangled Time, at amazon.co.uk/Cadwaladr-Quests-Book-One-Vocabulary/dp/1999301854
• Join the newly launched and incredibly exciting LTC Connect: a packed calendar of events & content across our 6 Hubs: English, Maths, Science, Wellbeing, SEND and Business. Just £7.50 per month for access to all the content in all 6 Hubs
• ️⭐️ Enjoy the podcast? Give us a 5-star review!
• Visit speakpipe.com/QualifiedTutorPodcast to have your voice heard by posing your thoughts and questions to Sheena

Qualified Tutor is a tutor-training organisation, with a suite of high-quality, industry-first programmes. The Level 3 Qualification for Tutors (qualifiedtutor.org/training/level-3-qualification-for-tutors/) consists of 8 weeks of online learning, interactive live sessions with peers and expert facilitation at every step of the way, and will set you apart in a crowded space.

Our CPD-Accredited Tutor Training (qualifiedtutor.org/cpd-accredited-tutor-training/) is a 4-week course in teaching and learning, and comes with a Certificate of Completion and a teaching qualification that many tutors will never have had the chance to obtain. Be the first to take the next step in tutoring.

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What would it take for you to see the value of tutoring? If you already do, this conversation will put a spring in your step. If you need convincing, allow William Minton to plot that path for you.

William is the Founder & CEO of CanopyEd. In addition to being an edtech company that serves as a high-quality Learning Management System, Canopy also runs a statewide early literacy tutoring programme that serves hundreds of children across the state of Louisiana.

From [18:48], William delivers a powerful summary of the current state-of-play in tutoring right now. It's really an unmissable moment - from scale to cost to accessibility, it covers what the tutoring industry is lacking right now, and what we can do to solve that.

If you take nothing else from this episode, make sure you listen to this segment.

And don't forget to grab your tickets to the Love Tutoring Festival 3 - to find out all about this incredible online festival of events from Monday 27th June - Friday 1st July, simply head to qualifiedtutor.org/love-tutoring-festival.

Next steps:

• Check out the consultancy side of William's business: canopyedconsulting.com
• Connect with William on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/william-minton-6467514
• Catch his appearance on Daphne Gomez's Teacher Career Coach Podcast at teachercareercoach.com/learning-ID
• Join The Qualified Tutor Podcast Group in the Qualified Tutor Community and meet fellow listeners like you!
• ️⭐️ Enjoy the podcast? Give us a 5-star review!
• Visit speakpipe.com/QualifiedTutorPodcast to have your voice heard by posing your thoughts and questions to William

Qualified Tutor is a tutor training organisation, with a suite of high-quality, industry-first programmes. The Level 3 Qualification for Tutors (qualifiedtutor.org/training/level-3-qualification-for-tutors/) consists of 8-12 weeks of online learning, interactive live sessions with peers and expert facilitation at every step of the way, and will set you apart in a crowded space.

Our CPD-Accredited Tutor Training (qualifiedtutor.org/cpd-accredited-tutor-training/) is a 5-week course in teaching and learning, and comes with a Certificate of Completion and a teaching qualification that many tutors will never have had the chance to obtain. Be the first to take the next step in tutoring.

🥇 The website: https://www.qualifiedtutor.org/
🌍 The Community: https://www.qualifiedtutorcommunity.org/
🎙 The Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thequalifiedtutor/
💻 The LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qualified-tutor/
📱 The Twitter page: https://twitter.com/qualified_tutor
📷 The Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/qualified_tutor/

The rise of emotional intelligence (EQ) as a determiner for a child's success and understanding in the world is well under way. For Tania Khojasteh, combining this with an awareness of fearlessness is the masterstroke.

Tania is the Founder of Über Tutors, and recently founded an EQ consultancy, Fearless Knowledge, which also happens to be the title of her deep-thinking and moving podcast, alongside co-host Ali Khan.

Fearlessness in education is a nuanced area and Tania is at the forefront of this - listen in to an expert in this field and how you can implement it too, in a conversation dotted with elegant and eloquent tales of children finding their own difficult way through fear, to the open plains of knowledge.

This week also marks the launch of the Love Tutoring Festival 3 - to find out all about this incredible online festival of events from Monday 27th June - Friday 1st July, simply head to qualifiedtutor.org/love-tutoring-festival.

Next steps:

• Check out Tania's tutoring business ubertutors.co.uk to join a top-quality tutoring business that acts a little differently to a 'classic agency'
• Connect with Tania on LinkedIn
• Listen to Tania and Ali's podcast, Fearless Knowledge
• And don't forget to watch Tania's TEDxUniversityOfYork talk on education and dharma
• Join The Qualified Tutor Podcast Group in the Qualified Tutor Community and meet fellow listeners like you!
• ️⭐️ Enjoy the podcast? Give us a 5-star review!
• Visit speakpipe.com/QualifiedTutorPodcast to have your voice heard by posing your thoughts and questions to Tania

Qualified Tutor is a tutor training organisation, with a suite of high-quality, industry-first programmes. The Level 3 Qualification for Tutors (qualifiedtutor.org/training/level-3-qualification-for-tutors/) consists of 8-12 weeks of online learning, interactive live sessions with peers and expert facilitation at every step of the way, and will set you apart in a crowded space.

Our CPD-Accredited Tutor Training (qualifiedtutor.org/cpd-accredited-tutor-training/) is a 5-week course in teaching and learning, and comes with a Certificate of Completion and a teaching qualification that many tutors will never have had the chance to obtain. Be the first to take the next step in tutoring.

🥇 The website: https://www.qualifiedtutor.org/
🌍 The Community: https://www.qualifiedtutorcommunity.org/
🎙 The Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thequalifiedtutor/
💻 The LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qualified-tutor/
📱 The Twitter page: https://twitter.com/qualified_tutor
📷 The Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/qualified_tutor/

Quite why it's taken us this long to get Sean McCormick onto the podcast, we will never know. But now we have, and now we're very happy. Executive function skills are essential - find out how.

Sean is the Founder of Executive Function Specialists, a friendly, trusted and highly qualified team of educators and educational therapy specialists who give students and families the care and confidence they need to improve their family dynamic, and therefore their learning too.

'Executive function skills are the greatest predictor of school success' is one of many great lines from this conversation - Sean truly believes in a different future for schooling and education, and we want you to hear this too. Projects like the One World Classroom are a great start, and executive function skills are absolutely crucial to this.

Next steps:

• Check out Sean's business, Executive Function Specialists
• Enrol on Sean's killer course, Become an Online Executive Function Specialist
• Don't forget to catch up on Sean's podcast, Earn More Tutoring, particularly his recent episode with Qualified Tutor Founder, Julia Silver
• Join The Qualified Tutor Podcast Group in the Qualified Tutor Community and meet fellow listeners like you!
• ️⭐️ Enjoy the podcast? Give us a 5-star review!
• Visit speakpipe.com/QualifiedTutorPodcast to have your voice heard by posing your thoughts and questions to Sean

Qualified Tutor is a tutor-training organisation, with a suite of high-quality, industry-first programmes. The Level 3 Qualification for Tutors (qualifiedtutor.org/training/level-3-qualification-for-tutors/) consists of 8-12 weeks of online learning, interactive live sessions with peers and expert facilitation at every step of the way, and will set you apart in a crowded space.

Our CPD-Accredited Tutor Training (qualifiedtutor.org/cpd-accredited-tutor-training/) is a 5-week course in teaching and learning, and comes with a Certificate of Completion and a teaching qualification that many tutors will never have had the chance to obtain. Be the first to take the next step in tutoring.

🥇 The website: https://www.qualifiedtutor.org/
🌍 The Community: https://www.qualifiedtutorcommunity.org/
🎙 The Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thequalifiedtutor/
💻 The LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qualified-tutor/
📱 The Twitter page: https://twitter.com/qualified_tutor
📷 The Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/qualified_tutor/

Autonomy, responsibility, self-direction. These are basic tenets of Henry Dingle's educational philosophy. In this slightly longer episode, find out why it's important for you too.

There is so much depth to this conversation - we advise listening to this in stages if you don't have the full 45 minutes. There are key 'chapters' within this episode, such as:

[12:17] Henry's philosophy behind bringing the best out of students
[14:55] Henry's focus on why parents should be involved in the learning
[20:49] Henry's view on mainstream education being more for parents than for students
[24:44] Henry's realisation that confidence-building and relationship might be more important than academic success
[29:29] Henry's cornerstones of effective tutoring and mentoring

From an exploration of the (faulty) education system as it currently is to a look at how he approaches the parent-tutor relationship, Henry takes us this way and that with his measured, eloquent style. It's quite mesmeric and reflective of many years of educational thinking and theory.

Next steps:

• Contact Henry and find out more about the Young Fire Academy at youngfireacademy.com
• Join the Facebook group 
• Watch Henry's Masterclass on How to Motivate Teenagers
• Listen to his appearance on the Modern Education Movement Podcast
• Join The Qualified Tutor Podcast Group in the Qualified Tutor Community and meet fellow listeners like you!
• ️⭐️ Enjoy the podcast? Give us a 5-star review!
• Visit speakpipe.com/QualifiedTutorPodcast to have your voice heard by posing your thoughts and questions to Henry

Qualified Tutor is a tutor-training organisation, with a suite of high-quality, industry-first programmes. The Level 3 Qualification for Tutors (qualifiedtutor.org/training/level-3-qualification-for-tutors/) consists of 8 weeks of online learning, interactive live sessions with peers and expert facilitation at every step of the way, and will set you apart in a crowded space.

Our CPD-Accredited Tutor Training (qualifiedtutor.org/cpd-accredited-tutor-training/) is a 4-week course in teaching and learning, and comes with a Certificate of Completion and a teaching qualification that many tutors will never have had the chance to obtain. Be the first to take the next step in tutoring.

🥇 The website: https://www.qualifiedtutor.org/
🌍 The Community: https://www.qualifiedtutorcommunity.org/
🎙 The Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thequalifiedtutor/
💻 The LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qualified-tutor/
📱 The Twitter page: https://twitter.com/qualified_tutor
📷 The Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/qualified_tutor/

🎧 And thank you as ever to Luke Tierney for the sophisticated soundtrack

Pablo is a Brand Ambassador of the hugely popular tutoring platform, Superprof. Pablo is also a veritable polyglot (a speaker of multiple languages) and he has a wonderful vision for language learning.

Hailing from Spain, Pablo added French at university, Mandarin Chinese in his own time and Portuguese through a group of Brazilian friends he made a short while back.

Combining his many tutoring sessions with his ambassadorship role, Pablo touches the lives of a great number of students and parents. Superprof support thousands of pupils around the world by providing space for students and tutors to connect and learn together. Anyone who’s used the platform values its easy-to-use interface and streamlined filtering tools.

And this mastery of languages has only given Pablo a greater sense of culture and identity, both within himself and of those around him. It’s really very impressive and coupled with this linguistic capability, Pablo also has a genuine interest in teaching & learning and ensuring it is a fun and enjoyable environment for his students.

Find out inside ...

Next steps:

• Sign up to become a Superprof tutor just like Pablo at superprof.co.uk
• Join The Qualified Tutor Podcast Group in the Qualified Tutor Community and meet fellow listeners like you!
• ️⭐️ Enjoy the podcast? Give us a 5-star review!
• Visit speakpipe.com/QualifiedTutorPodcast to have your voice heard by posing your thoughts and questions to Pablo (and to the rest of the Superprof team too!)

Qualified Tutor is a tutor-training organisation, with a suite of high-quality, industry-first programmes. The Level 3 Qualification for Tutors (qualifiedtutor.org/training/level-3-qualification-for-tutors/) consists of 8 weeks of online learning, interactive live sessions with peers and expert facilitation at every step of the way, and will set you apart in a crowded space.

Our CPD-Accredited Tutor Training (qualifiedtutor.org/cpd-accredited-tutor-training/) is a 4-week course in teaching and learning, and comes with a Certificate of Completion and a teaching qualification that many tutors will never have had the chance to obtain. Be the first to take the next step in tutoring.

🥇 The website: https://www.qualifiedtutor.org/
🌍 The Community: https://www.qualifiedtutorcommunity.org/
🎙 The Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thequalifiedtutor/
💻 The LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qualified-tutor/
📱 The Twitter page: https://twitter.com/qualified_tutor
📷 The Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/qualified_tutor/

🎧 And thank you as ever to Luke Tierney for the sophisticated soundtrack

If you find an educator with the energy for inspiring children's passion for learning, get in touch. Reuven Tzalmona delivers hands-on STEM workshops for kids (and parents, too): they're electric.

Hailing from Toronto, Reuven was able to transform his live in-person, How Cool Is That? classes into online sessions when the lockdown first struck. But he’s always asserted that there is no replacing the in-person touch and feel of interactive learning. And since last year, he’s been running these sessions in person again, helping students (and parents) see the power of hands-on and inquiry-based learning, with experiments and projects such as Battle Tops, Marble Maze, Zipliner and Airplane Launcher.

Inquiry-based learning is the future of education - hear how you can be a part of it in this conversation ...

Next steps:

• Check out How Cool Is That? at howcoolisthatteacher.com
• Get in touch with Reuven at [email protected]
• Fresh from listening to the episode, find out more about Bloom's Taxonomy and Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development
• Join The Qualified Tutor Podcast Group in the Qualified Tutor Community and meet fellow listeners like you!
• ️⭐️ Enjoy the podcast? Give us a 5-star review!
• Visit speakpipe.com/QualifiedTutorPodcast to have your voice heard by posing your thoughts and questions to Reuven

Qualified Tutor is a tutor-training organisation, with a suite of high-quality, industry-first programmes. The Level 3 Qualification for Tutors (qualifiedtutor.org/training/level-3-qualification-for-tutors/) consists of 8 weeks of online learning, interactive live sessions with peers and expert facilitation at every step of the way, and will set you apart in a crowded space.

Our CPD-Accredited Tutor Training (qualifiedtutor.org/cpd-accredited-tutor-training/) is a 4-week course in teaching and learning, and comes with a Certificate of Completion and a teaching qualification that many tutors will never have had the chance to obtain. Be the first to take the next step in tutoring.

🥇 The website: https://www.qualifiedtutor.org/
🌍 The Community: https://www.qualifiedtutorcommunity.org/
🎙 The Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thequalifiedtutor/
💻 The LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qualified-tutor/
📱 The Twitter page: https://twitter.com/qualified_tutor
📷 The Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/qualified_tutor/

🎧 And thank you as ever to Luke Tierney for the sophisticated soundtrack

Fiona Mills is a pretty unique tutor. Unique because she's also a practising, qualified lawyer. This allows Fiona to deliver her passion project: legal and life skills for children.

Fiona has been a tutor for over 15 years, helping students with their reading and writing skills, alongside her legal studies and career. In 2015, Fiona qualified as a solicitor here in the UK and has since gone onto work at firms based in Singapore and in Australia.

Much to the UK’s benefit(!), Fiona is now back working in-house at British media company, Global, and just recently was made Senior Legal Counsel which is hugely exciting and extremely impressive.

Amongst it all, Fiona has run Mills Tutoring and recently launched Little Lawyers: an exciting new project, both for Fiona and for the tutoring industry as a whole: teaching students (and adults) the importance of legal skills and exposing them to the kind of life skills that people are usually only afforded post-university or post-apprenticeship.

Listen in and find out how you can improve legal and life skills education for students.

Next steps:

• Check out Little Lawyers by visiting Fiona's LinkedIn page at linkedin.com/in/fionamillslawyertutor
• Have a listen to Fiona's other podcast appearance on the TandTeaching podcast at mooreedu.co.uk/tandteaching
• Join The Qualified Tutor Podcast Group in the Qualified Tutor Community and meet fellow listeners like you!
• ️⭐️ Enjoy the podcast? Give us a 5-star review!
• Visit speakpipe.com/QualifiedTutorPodcast to have your voice heard by posing your thoughts and questions to Fiona

Qualified Tutor is a tutor-training organisation, with a suite of high-quality, industry-first programmes. The Level 3 Qualification for Tutors (qualifiedtutor.org/training/level-3-qualification-for-tutors/) consists of 8 weeks of online learning, interactive live sessions with peers and expert facilitation at every step of the way, and will set you apart in a crowded space.

Our CPD-Accredited Tutor Training (qualifiedtutor.org/cpd-accredited-tutor-training/) is a 4-week course in teaching and learning, and comes with a Certificate of Completion and a teaching qualification that many tutors will never have had the chance to obtain. Be the first to take the next step in tutoring.

🥇 The website: https://www.qualifiedtutor.org/
🌍 The Community: https://www.qualifiedtutorcommunity.org/
🎙 The Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thequalifiedtutor/
💻 The LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qualified-tutor/
📱 The Twitter page: https://twitter.com/qualified_tutor
📷 The Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/qualified_tutor/

🎧 And thank you as ever to Luke Tierney for the sophisticated soundtrack

Sumantha has a wealth of experience in both the entrepreneurial and teaching fields. And tutoring was life-changing for her - what do you need to upgrade your education business?

Sumantha McMahon is a cherished member of the Qualified Tutor Community and, perhaps unsurprisingly, has also had great success in building her own communities, both of parents and students seeking tutoring and of small business leaders seeking mentoring and coaching.

Upgrade Your Education Business and Sumantha’s other exciting venture, The Upgrade Project, are not Sumantha’s first businesses. Despite Anya closing down in 2020, after a simultaneous stint as a classroom teacher, this experience gave Sumantha the confidence and expertise to launch herself back into the world of business.

Can she help you upgrade your education business too?

Next steps:

• If you're looking to start your own education business, head to upgradeyoureducationbusiness.com
• If you're looking for high-quality KS2, KS3 and GCSE tuition, head to theupgradeproject.co.uk
• Listen to Ludo's episode with Sumantha on the Upgrade Your Education Business Podcast here
• Join The Qualified Tutor Podcast Group in the Qualified Tutor Community and meet fellow listeners like you!
• ️⭐️ Enjoy the podcast? Give us a 5-star review!
• Visit speakpipe.com/QualifiedTutorPodcast to have your voice heard by posing your thoughts and questions to Sumantha

Qualified Tutor is a tutor-training organisation, with a suite of high-quality, industry-first programmes. The Level 3 Qualification for Tutors (qualifiedtutor.org/training/level-3-qualification-for-tutors/) consists of 8 weeks of online learning, interactive live sessions with peers and expert facilitation at every step of the way, and will set you apart in a crowded space.

Our CPD-Accredited Tutor Training (qualifiedtutor.org/cpd-accredited-tutor-training/) is a 4-week course in teaching and learning, and comes with a Certificate of Completion and a teaching qualification that many tutors will never have had the chance to obtain. Be the first to take the next step in tutoring.

🥇 The website: https://www.qualifiedtutor.org/
🌍 The Community: https://www.qualifiedtutorcommunity.org/
🎙 The Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thequalifiedtutor/
💻 The LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qualified-tutor/
📱 The Twitter page: https://twitter.com/qualified_tutor
📷 The Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/qualified_tutor/

🎧 And thank you as ever to Luke Tierney for the sophisticated soundtrack

It's not hard to see why Action Tutoring have been so successful. Built on improving lives for disadvantaged students, the organisation is led marvellously by CEO Susannah Hardyman.

Susannah founded Action Tutoring back in 2012 in response to the clear shortage of volunteer tutoring on offer in the UK. Awash with high-end tutors working with the wealthy and privileged, the tutoring industry has seen a huge change in the past 10 years ... and Action Tutoring have been at the forefront of it all.

A founding organisation of the National Tutoring Programme, they have gone from strength to strength since spring 2020 and have since moved into 8 new cities around the UK.

On a more amusing note, we asked Susannah to bring any old school reports from her childhood - they're worth a listen ...

Next steps:

• Check out all the incredible work that Action Tutoring do, including how to sign up yourself at actiontutoring.org.uk
• Join The Qualified Tutor Podcast Group in the Qualified Tutor Community and meet fellow listeners like you!
• ️⭐️ Enjoy the podcast? Give us a 5-star review!
• Visit speakpipe.com/QualifiedTutorPodcast to have your voice heard by posing your thoughts and questions to Susannah

Qualified Tutor is a tutor-training organisation, with a suite of high-quality, industry-first programmes. The Level 3 Qualification for Tutors (qualifiedtutor.org/training/level-3-qualification-for-tutors/) consists of 8 weeks of online learning, interactive live sessions with peers and expert facilitation at every step of the way, and will set you apart in a crowded space.

Our CPD-Accredited Tutor Training (qualifiedtutor.org/cpd-accredited-tutor-training/) is a 4-week course in teaching and learning, and comes with a Certificate of Completion and a teaching qualification that many tutors will never have had the chance to obtain. Be the first to take the next step in tutoring.

🥇 The website: https://www.qualifiedtutor.org/
🌍 The Community: https://www.qualifiedtutorcommunity.org/
🎙 The Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thequalifiedtutor/
💻 The LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qualified-tutor/
📱 The Twitter page: https://twitter.com/qualified_tutor
📷 The Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/qualified_tutor/