The Tutor’s Manual

Teaching well and running a teaching business are different skills.

Most tutors are hired on results and lost on logistics: a lesson moved twice, a parent who has not had an update in a month, an invoice that arrived late, a summer that emptied the diary because nobody planned for it.

This manual writes the practice down. Inquiries, the first lesson, assessment, scheduling, the lesson routine, progress records, parent updates, cancellations, pricing and the weekly look at the numbers are each set out as a procedure.

There is no teaching method in this book. It assumes you can teach, and that what actually costs you students is everything around the lesson.

Inside, you will learn how to

• Convert an inquiry into a booked first lesson
• Run an assessment that sets expectations for both sides
• Keep parents updated before they think to ask
• Cut last-minute cancellations without losing goodwill
• Plan for the term cycle instead of being surprised by it
• Read the four numbers that tell you what next term looks like