Can I pick your brains?

[nimnom]

I want to start doing private maths tuition and wanted to know whether I should aim my advertising at home educating parents. I am not a qualified teacher, so I have not taught in mainstream schools and I'm hoping that a slightly different approach will help children in school to see maths from a different perspective. However, I'm not sure if this is the sort of service that home ed parents use or would be interested in. Can I have your opinions please.

My contact who does private maths tuition very rarely has home educated children on his books. The occasional school refuser, but he mostly gets school children.

His marketing is a mixture of tuition agencies and word-of-mouth. None of the notices in libraries or shops or newspaper adverts ever came to fruition.

Oh, and it's really seasonal - things start to get going slowly in the Autumn, and pick up towards the January exams, and then go crazy in May.

If you wanted to tutor HE children, then the best way might be to get yourself onto the local HE emailing list and get a sense of whether people are using tutors in your area. There are certainly occasional requests for tutors, and offers of them, on our local list.

Thanks for that.

Say more about your approach

If you actually want to work with HE'd kids, your best bet is to be prepared to tailor your approach to the child/family. A lot of HE parents are very anti any sort of reward/punishment/carrot /stick approach.

Thanks Fillyjonk