The Qualified Tutor Podcast

Incentivising students is something all parents and educators have grappled with. Katie Tyndale has created a solution. Great Little Rewards works with schools to motivate children to model good behaviours, and now it's time tutors take part too.

With a background in HR and corporate services, Katie has learnt a great deal about management, logistics and operations. It is this, coupled with her heart-led attitude towards small business, that has created the force that is GLR today.

They are the sole suppliers of Explore Learning, a hugely successful organisation who have tuition centres up and down the country (just over 100 centres) and with GLR supplying all of them, that’s over 75,000 children they’re serving.

Alongside this, Katie has set up Copper Beach Trading: a logistics and delivery management company that provides all kinds of products for small businesses (hampers, wellness boxes, goodie bags, snack packs and more). 

A master in people-first support, for students and for small businesses.

Next steps:

• Check out the GLR shop and the GLR schools site
• Connect with Katie on LinkedIn
• Watch GLR's promotional video to see for yourself how the rewards programmes work
• 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 Katie

Qualified Tutor is a tutor-training organisation, with a suite of high-quality, industry-first programmes. The Level 3 Qualification for Tutors (qualifiedtutor.org/level-3-qualification-for-tutors/) consists of 8-10 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/

Explaining tricky concepts in simple terms is no easy task, particularly for an educator. Bradley Busch has made it his mission to do just that ... for educators.

Bradley and his business partner, Edward Watson, set up InnerDrive to give practitioners the best chance possible to understand concepts such as metacognition, self-regulation, the use of questions in learning, retrieval practice, interleaving and more.

Here, Bradley walks us through the research behind these areas, sprinkled with more than a dusting of pedagogical backing and first-hand experience from 20+ years in the world of psychology and learning.

Coupled with this month's theme in the Love Tutoring Community, of Metacognition and Self-Regulation, this conversation is a brilliant combination of broader understanding and in-depth analysis, delivered by a master communicator.

Next steps:

• Check out Bradley's mission at innerdrive.co.uk, in particular their hugely informative blog page at blog.innerdrive.co.uk
• Grab a copy of Bradley and Edward's book, The Science of Learning
• Book your ticket to The Teaching & Learning Summit on Saturday 11 February 2023
• 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 Bradley

Qualified Tutor is a tutor-training organisation, with a suite of high-quality, industry-first programmes. The Level 3 Qualification for Tutors (qualifiedtutor.org/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/

Matt Green is The Rapping Science Teacher. An experienced teacher turned viral sensation (for children and parents), Matt has come to understand the way students learn.

With a background in Neuroscience, Matt taught in schools for over 10 years, becoming Head of Chemistry in multiple schools. Following this, he left the classroom and set up JGM Science Tutors: his (first) vehicle for helping students with their understanding and confidence.

His second vehicle was spawned not long after that: The Rapping Science Teacher. Regular short-form (TikTok) and longer form (Youtube) videos explaining simple and more complex concepts in Science, designed to stick in the minds of listeners and watchers thanks to the catchy tunes and lyrics that Matt labours over to create (essentially a full-time artist, tutor, CEO, husband and father).

Whether you're 'into' TikTok or not, Matt's videos are amazing content and the ethos behind he does what he does proves to be just as amazing.

Welcome to The Rapping Science Teacher.

Next steps:

• Of course, the next step is to check out his TikToks at tiktok.com/@mattgreen.jgm (preferably on mobile)
• Connect with Matt on LinkedIn
• Watch his Youtube channel and/or show it to your students
• 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 Matt

Qualified Tutor is a tutor-training organisation, with a suite of high-quality, industry-first programmes. The Level 3 Qualification for Tutors (qualifiedtutor.org/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/

What would it take for you to get into education podcasts? Well, you're here. So that's the first step. The next step is to catch Ludo and TandTeaching co-host Arthur Moore help spread the good word of edu podcasting.

Here, Ludo and fellow podcast host, Arthur, sit around and chat memories and tales of teachers gone by, the rise of cognitive science in education and, of course, podcasting. In a wide ranging conversation, they settle on (at least) one key takeaway: those who are devoted to education have a job to do = help increase the visibility of and support for edu podcasts.

There are so many top education podcasts out there, highlighting the incredible work of educators around the world and showcasing the breadth of work across the sector we call 'education': from tutoring to foreign language learning, from teaching & learning tips to test prep advice.

Go and find your favourites and share them with those around you. Hell, you might even enjoy it so much that you start your own one day.

Next steps:

• THE NEXT STEP is to go and listen to the latest episode of Arthur and Mike Harrowell's TandTeaching Podcast at mooreedu.co.uk/tandteaching or on their Twitter page
• Connect with Arthur on LinkedIn
• 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 Arthur

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/

"Unless you are ready to unlearn and learn again, you will never be able to go further" - it is this mantra that has allowed Misbah Iqbal to develop into the leader and educator that she is today. Now you get to try it too.

Misbah is the COO of London-based tutoring agency Eximus Education (led by the inimitable Haris Jawaid), who work in the UK, US, Canada and, predominantly, the Middle East connecting high-quality (and well trained) tutors with clients from all over. Misbah has led an approach which values client connection over bottom-line profit, creating affordable education solutions over turning families away at the door.

All of this is underpinned by a deeply humanistic and empathetic approach to learning, for both tutor and student. Misbah leads on the training for Eximus tutors and, within the programme, self-reflection is front and centre, imbuing the team with a rich vein of understanding in agency and autonomy.

It's a wonderful message and one that all involved in tutoring should be privy to.

Next steps:

• Check out Eximus Education's mission at eximuseducation.com
• Connect with Misbah on LinkedIn
• Join The Qualified Tutor Podcast Group in the Love Tutoring 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 Misbah

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/

Lauren Johnston has so much passion and energy for education that she went and set up a business. Lauren Johnston Tutoring is the product of years of first-hand experience and an MSc in Business Strategy, Leadership and Change converging into one.

It's not often you hear the ethos of effective and heart-led tutoring put so eloquently and with such clarity.

This conversation is for the committed and for the dreamers, Lauren just so happens to be both. "I love learning, and I think that’s a big reason why I went into education" - successful tutoring is no mean feat and it's this passion for continuous betterment that Lauren not only displays herself but also encourages in the students and parents she works with.

Let's hope she can do the same for you, too.

Next steps:

• Check out Lauren and her mission at laurenjohnstontutoring.com
• Connect with Lauren on LinkedIn (her 'happy place')
• Join The Qualified Tutor Podcast Group in the Love Tutoring 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 Lauren

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/

Isabel De La Cruz does something very few other tutors do: financial literacy for that age-group we call teenagers. It is at this age where the crucial intersection between (lack of) knowledge and responsibility for decisions is at its most strained.

On the one hand, teenagers have been given little to no more information than children about finance and banking. And yet, by this age, many have phones, some will have bank accounts and all of them should be aware of how jobs, taxes and so on work.

Isabel's background is in Maths, Science and computer programming, and she began tutoring way back in 2008. Since then, her practice has grown hugely, now encompassing her own tutoring business and a Youtube channel dedicated to teaching financial concepts in a simple, informative style.

If you want to learn how you can apply this knowledge to your children and students, this is the conversation for you. Framed by the understanding that financial literacy for kids is one of the growing forces in education, Isabel neatly ties in stories and tales from years gone by (agonising and amusing in equal measure) that taught her all she now knows about this area.

Enjoy ...

Next steps:

• Check out Isabel's Youtube channel at youtube.com/isabelexplains
• Book yourself onto her FREE (for a short time only) Udemy course, Financial Literacy for Teens at udemy.com/course/financeforteens
• 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 Isabel

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/

Liberty King is one to watch. Formerly involved in the design of the first year of the National Tutoring Programme, Liberty now promotes and supports social mobility causes in the UK through early careers programmes and strategy consulting.

Liberty's insights into designing the framework for an effective, evidenced-based approach to a tutoring programme across the UK demonstrate both the benefits and difficulties of the process. We are lucky here in this conversation to have been able to explore what the approach means for pedagogy and social mobility in this country, and beyond.

With tales from teachers gone by and lessons learnt from her days at the front of the classroom, Liberty paints a different vision for how we can frame social mobility, including where the real emphasis should lie.

A discussion founded in policy and design, but sculpted for the students and educators that that policy was built for.

Enjoy ...

Next steps:

• Connect with Liberty on LinkedIn
• Check out Liberty's current ventures at Goodwork (support for those excluded from professional careers) and at Cairneagle (education consultancy)
• 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 Liberty

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/

We hear many stories of individuals moving from teaching to tutoring. Matthew Curnier did so around 5 years ago and his story brings with it a great deal of experience, wisdom and amusement ...

Capital Tuition Group was founded off the back of a career in the classroom. Imbued with the rigour and training of a professional teacher, Matthew has built a tuition business that lives by those same values and commitments. Of course it does - its tutors are all qualified teachers, past and present.

An actor as well, this conversation combines a discussion of what it really is that makes a tutor, and a good tutor at that, with a humorous exploration of Matthew's background and current perspective on the state-of-play in tutoring right now, one that's taken in a great deal of National Tutoring Programme work as well as leading the line in projects that support students post formal education and into the professional world.

Enjoy ...

Next steps:

• Check out Matthew's tutoring work at capitaltuitiongroup.com and, for all his acting content, apollotheatrecompany.com/matthew-curnier
• 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 Matthew

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/

A former primary school teacher and mother to 2 girls, Amy Solon has an intuitive sense of what motivates, and distracts, children. Technology has never been such a potent force in our society - but how should we approach it?

As Founder of Elements Hypnotherapy, Amy runs classes and courses for children and adults alike, focusing on the fundamentals of happiness, health and connection. The parent coaching branch of Amy's work is inextricably tied in with an education of how we've become detached from our roots, and from nature.

Amy's refreshing attitude towards these foundations is delicately borne out in this conversation, with an exploration of particular self-management strategies that have helped Amy find joy, solitude and tranquility.

Want to learn about the physiology of stress?
Want to learn how Amy helps educators overcome anxiety?
Want to work on your approach to intrusive technology encroaching on your daily schedule?

Find solace in and gain insights from an award-winning, qualified hypnotherapist and coach inside ...

Next steps:

• Check out Amy's work and mission at elementshypnotherapy.com
• Connect with Amy on LinkedIn
• 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 Amy

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/