Become an online tutor
Do you want to develop and extend your skillset into online teaching? Are you keen to help those children most affected by COVID-19 school-closures?
Do you want to develop and extend your skillset into online teaching? Are you keen to help those children most affected by COVID-19 school-closures?
Due to overwhelming demand for tuition from The Pearson Tutoring Programme, an approved partner of the National Tutoring Programme, we’re looking for qualified teachers to join us as online tutors.
If successful, you’ll receive first-class training in online tutoring and ongoing support from our teaching experts.
For more information see the Tutor application FAQs below.
You do not need to commit to a set number of hours, however the tutoring will take place in school hours and the more flexible you can be, the more work you are likely to get.
There is the option on the application to select the hours you are willing to work.
Once you have been accepted as a tutor, it will be possible to accept or reject the tutoring sessions you wish to deliver, to suit your availability.
Tutoring will be in highest demand during school term dates. However, there may be some schools who request tutoring sessions during school holidays. You will have the choice to accept or reject tutoring sessions to fit with your availability. The role will last at least for the academic year 2020-21.
You will need to have QT status.
No, you do not need to have taught online before as we will provide training. However, you should be reasonably comfortable using online technology.
Yes, as long as your role as an AA does not require access to live papers for the subject or qualification (any awarding body) for which you are delivering tutoring.
Your tutoring bookings and progress will be managed on Bramble’s online platform.
We will provide you with resources we recommend you use to deliver each tutoring session, and you will be responsible for familiarising yourself with these materials before each session. This will allow for a level of consistent, high quality provision across our tutoring offer.
However, we will also encourage you to use your professional judgement where necessary to cater for the needs of each student within the framework of these resources.
Tutoring will take place in blocks of 15 sessions. Our plan is that, prior to starting each block, you would meet with the students’ teacher to discuss the required focus of the tutoring, any specific needs the students may have and how you might be able to support these as their tutor.
Ongoing communication of this type between the tutor and teacher will be highly beneficial to learning outcomes.
Yes. As long as the past live papers have subsequently been marked and results published then this is not a barrier to providing tutoring.
This will be confirmed prior to your acceptance as a tutor.
Yes. The training will be up to a maximum of a day’s time.
Yes. This will be part of the paid-for tutoring work.
We are aiming to notify applicants of an interview within 2 weeks. Following the interview, we are required to do specific reference and safeguarding checks which can take up to 4 weeks. Once these checks have been passed, you will be added to the platform as a prospective tutor within 1 week.