Yikes Quick! How much do private tutors get paid?

[Berrie]

Some one has given my number to a parent who wants some maths tuition for their daughter. Only just looked at the text so they could ring any time and I know absolutly nothing about how much I should ask for or other issues I should consider. Has anyone any experience? I am a qualified junior teacher but not working at the moment.

...and was certainly teaching exploring mental methods of calculation before anything else...

The scary thing about that is that they appear to have no concept of approximation either so consequently don't know what order of answer they should expect.

DH and I have already decided that our 3yo DTS will be learning maths the old fashion way from both us.

...therefore must be going wrong at KS3

Cube of 3 at A'level? And they try and convince us that the exams have not been dumbed down.

It is no wonder that a lot of degrees have to be done over 4 years now because they spend the first year teaching them what they use to learn at A'level. That is certainly case in chemistry and I interact with a number of university chemistry lecturers.

I'm out of London (East Anglia) and have a 15 year old child who receives tuition in English and Maths. We pay the Maths teacher £20 but the English teacher (who we have used on and off over several years for both DSs) only charges £15. I've told her she should charge at least £20. Both tutors are experienced qualified secondary teachers,teaching and tutoring in their degree subject and currently teaching part time in local schools. We go to their houses. The English tutor told me that a friend of her's in the nearby major town gets £35 per hour!

Am confused now...£15 to £35 is a big difference!

I was in a similar position to you (though in the end it didn't come to anything)about 8 years ago. I was advised to charge £25 an hour then (this was for STEP btw) so I should think the going rate would be around £30 an hour by now.

I recently went to a lecture on the history of maths at Oxford University over the past 40 years (what an exciting life I lead). I was dumbfounded to discover that the current BA syllabus equates to the first 2 years of my degree started 20 years ago, as effectively even further maths A level doesn't get you to a basic entry level of maths these days. However the lecturer has been fairly involved with schools over the last decade and now feels that the primary maths curriculum is the best it has been since the 70s. So whilst there is definitely a mathematically challenged generation, this should be corrected in future.

A tutor we have used, who is an ex school teacher, charges £18 an hour for primary school maths.

I was going to post this very question. I've recently got my dyslexia association accreditation as a teacher and have been teaching (primary and secondary) since 1986. Will be setting up my website soon but not sure of charging (we're in SE) - the problem is I feel bad charging for failures of ed system to teach dyslexic children.

I know what you mean Swedishmum, I know I got paid as a teacher but am used to feeling like I'm delivering it for free to the consumer. Also, am worried about whether it's worth so much money every week but I suppose it's all relative to how much money you have. I'll feel bad if I think they don't have much...I really won't know until I meet and assess the child and decide if I can help her.

Receiving money never bothered me. I was delivering a service and my pupils were benefitting from it. Why give it away when what you have to offer is of value, as is your time btw.

Outer London I pay £22 per hour plus £5 travel (she comes to us). This is cheap and was arranged through a very local agency. The tutor is a retired teacher with experience of both state and independent in this part of the world. One of the large well advertised agents who charge for registration were much more expensive per session (well into the 30s) - and frankly unable to put us in touch with anyone even remotely suitable.