Complete practical guide
The tutoring book that starts with an essay the tutor never wrote a word of
37 chapters and 68 printable worksheets on online tutoring as a side hustle - why you never produce the answer, why 'can you check it over?' is where careers end, why the parent paying is not your client, and why promising a grade is what corrupts everything else.
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What this guide is
Almost every guide to tutoring is about explaining things well. Know your subject, be patient, break it into steps, build rapport. All of it is true and none of it is where this business goes wrong. This book opens with a tutor helping a fifteen-year-old with essays in a shared document, who never typed a single word - who instead read the paragraph, formed the idea, and said 'what if you said something like: the author uses the storm to suggest the family is losing control?' while the student typed it. The grades went up. The parent referred four families. And in March the coursework was flagged, because the writing did not match anything the student produced in class, and at the meeting the student said 'my tutor helped me' - which was true. The central argument is that the fastest way to make a session feel successful is to produce a correct answer, and the fastest way to produce a correct answer is to supply it: the homework comes back right, the parent is delighted, and in the exam hall, alone, with nobody to think out loud at them, nothing happens. You cannot tell the difference between a student who can do it and a student who can do it while you are talking. The exam can. This is a book that refuses to promise a grade, refuses to touch anything that gets handed in, refuses to tell a parent what their child said, and insists on a two-minute unseen test at the start of every session - and argues that those four refusals are the entire business.
What you get out of it
Specifics, not promises.
- Four rules covering what actually ends these businesses - who produces the answer, whose work is assessed, whose consent governs the room, and the outcome nobody controls
- The cold start: two unseen questions, unaided, at the start of every session - the only moment in the week that resembles the exam
- Why the gap is never where the parent says it is, and how to diagnose two years below the presenting problem
- How to tell a misconception from a gap - and why teaching harder makes a misconception worse
- The four requests that cross the integrity line, and why nobody crosses it in one step
- Safeguarding for one-to-one video work with a child, where there is no institution around either of you
- Why 'she'll be fine' is a grade promise, said kindly, that will be quoted back in August
- How to survive a June cliff that removes a large share of your income in a single week
- 148 AI prompts with their constraints written in - and not one takes a student's name, work, or notes
Ideal for
Graduates, teachers, and subject specialists who already help people and have never charged properly for it; working professionals who know a subject deeply and want structured evening work; teaching assistants and postgraduates building something of their own; and anybody already tutoring who has an uncomfortable feeling about how much of the last essay was theirs.
- Anyone starting online tutoring alongside other work.
- Anybody already tutoring who suspects that a session going well is not the same as a student learning something.
What's inside
Format
- Digital download, delivered instantly after payment
- Formatted for letter paper — read on screen or print it
- Yours permanently, re-downloadable from your library any time
- Licensed for use in your own business
By the end you can
A reader finishes with four rules written where they can see them, two refusal lists, an unseen paper sat cold to define what they may sell, a one-page agreement containing an explicit academic integrity clause and an explicit no-guarantee clause, a written safeguarding policy with an escalation route identified before it is needed, a diagnostic that starts two levels below the presenting problem, a cold start run and recorded at the beginning of every session, practice set as named questions with a time estimate and marked before the next session, a session note sent the same evening, a termly report stating what the student can now do unaided, an eight-stage workflow with seven never-skipped checks, a price built on real hours across ten paid months rather than twelve, a non-exam base that survives the June cliff, and thirty-day, ninety-day, and first-year plans.
A complete working system for an online tutoring business alongside other work - built on four rules covering who produces the answer, whose work is assessed, whose consent governs the session, and the outcome nobody controls - with the cold start and the written record of unaided performance treated as the actual product.
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