Case Studies: Full Time, Instead of School

As well as conducting customised recruitment processes for each Client enquiry, our ability to innovate in the tutoring market has set us apart from other high-end tutoring companies. Tutors International supplies elite tutors onboard yachts and superyachts. We’ve recruited micro-school coordinators in the Puerto-Rican mountains, specialist SEN tutors, and academic-vocational hybrid tutors.

This highly specialist service, tailored approach, and exclusive client base earned Tutors International the epithet, ‘the Dom Perignon of tutoring companies’ (The Good Schools Guide). TI Tutors and Clients alike have shared why we are deserving of this title.

Here you can read through some case studies of exemplary private tuition that we have assigned all over the world:

Oxfordshire

Delivery
Full Time, Short Term
Students
Boy (15)
Circumstances
Instead of School, Academic Concerns, Exam Preparation
Background
This young man attended a very well known private boarding school in England but was not doing well, and was off school for a term in the middle of his GCSE course.
Outcome
A Tutor was found who was able to teach the 9 GCSE subjects required during the period of homeschooling. The young man subsequently went on to achieve excellent GCSEs, 3 As at A level and is now at University.

Pennsylvania

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Girl (12), Girl (2), Boy (10), Boy (8)
Circumstances
Instead of School, Travel, Special Needs
Background
This US family wished to change their lifestyle and travel in Europe. This meant homeschooling their children, two of whom were dyslexic, while they travelled.
Outcome
The family were so impressed by the progress of their children out of traditional school that they retained the services of Tutors International for an additional two years after they returned.

Sailing - Mediterranean

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Girl (11), Girl (10), Girl (8)
Circumstances
Instead of School, Travel, Exam Preparation, Relocation or New School
Background
This family planned to take a year to go sailing during which their daughters would be homeschooled aboard the yacht in preparation for entrance exams for the top London private girls’ schools.
Outcome
A teaching couple was appointed to make sure that all the subjects could be covered for all three girls in a way that complemented the learning environment without compromising educational rigour. All three girls were accepted to their first choice schools.

Sailing - Pacific

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Girl (11), Girl (10), Girl (8)
Circumstances
Instead of School, Travel, Exam Preparation, Relocation or New School
Background
This family planned to take a year to go sailing during which their daughters would be home-schooled aboard the yacht in preparation for entrance exams for the top London private girls’ schools.
Outcome
A teaching couple was appointed to make sure that all the subjects could be covered for all three girls in a way that complemented the learning environment without compromising educational rigour. All three girls were accepted to their first choice schools.

South Pacific

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Boy (4), Boy (5)
Circumstances
Instead of School, Travel
Background
We have done some amazing activities - a lot of which the adults decide to come on too! - horse riding along a beach; visiting an active volcano; hiking through jungles; climbing up waterfalls and visiting traditional villages to witness spirit dances and land-jumping etc. We were also really lucky to be on a deserted beach in New Caledonia when several sea snakes slithered ashore to lay their eggs! Pretty unique and the children loved it! J - The Tutor
Outcome
This was just one of the many accounts of the wonderful experiential and hands-on learning that travel and education can offer.

Stockport

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Girl (9), Girl (7)
Circumstances
Instead of School
Background
Due to the sudden and unexpected closure of a small local school, this family decided to homeschool their daughters for the remainder of the school year. They wanted this time to be something special that the girls would look back on and treasure.
Outcome
The Tutor created an exciting and busy curriculum that took full advantage of the local resources while at the same time being academically rigorous. The Tutor was also able to make previously unliked subjects into favourites.

Surrey

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Boy (9)
Circumstances
Instead of School
Background
What started as a short term summer appointment supporting this mildly dyslexic boy on vacation in Turkey, soon turned into a full home-schooling role when it became evident to all just how much happier the boy was in the care of a Tutor.
Outcome
Now in its second year, there are plans to reintegrate the boy back into a new school and to keep the Tutor as after school support for the long term.

Tenerife

Delivery
Full Time, Short Term
Students
Boy (6)
Circumstances
Instead of School, Unhappy at School
Background
Due to parental commitments, the boy had moved school frequently and had become unwilling to learn and was unsettled in the classroom.
Outcome
With the help of a Tutor the boy's natural inquisitiveness was revealed and he returned to school.

Verbier

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Boy (17)
Circumstances
Instead of School, Unhappy at School
Background
The boy had been expelled from his excellent school in Beijing and had a poor GPA. He had ambitious academic plans which appeared to be utterly untenable.
Outcome
Tutors International managed a comprehensive home-schooling solution. The young man graduated with a 4.2 GPA just a year later, and passed four AP exams at grade 5. He opted to delay his College application for a year and was accepted to the top 4 high schools in the US for a PG year. He is now thriving.

Charente

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Boy (13)
Circumstances
After School Support, Instead of School, Relocation or New School
Background
This family were relocating to France to renovate their home there and needed a bilingual French/English Tutor for their son who was unable to join the local French school.
Outcome
In addition to home-schooling the boy, the Tutor was also expected to teach his mother French and to help his two younger sisters with their school homework.

Gstaad

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Girl (10), Boy (12)
Circumstances
After School Support, Instead of School, Relocation or New School
Background
This family were looking for a full time private tutor to help with a complex transition between schooling in Switzerland and England, and with extended interim periods of homeschooling in the US.
Outcome
A Tutor familiar with IB was appointed to liaise with the new school and ensure that the children were always at the appropriate level so that they would be able to reintegrate into their class at any time.

London

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Boy (12), Girl (10)
Circumstances
Relocation or New School, Instead of School
Background
This family were looking for a full time private tutor to help with a complex transition between schooling in Switzerland and England, and with extended, interim periods of homeschooling in the US.
Outcome
A Tutor familiar with IB was appointed to liaise with the new school and ensure that the children were always at the appropriate level so that they would be able to reintegrate into their class at any time.

Newbury

Delivery
Full Time, Short Term
Students
Boy (13)
Circumstances
Instead of School, Relocation or New School
Background
This boy had been attending a local prep school, but his preferred choice of secondary school could not take him until a year had passed. A private tutor was needed to provide a home education during this transitional year.
Outcome
The Tutor needed to liaise closely with the new school to make sure that the boy would be able to integrate seamlessly when he joined the following year. We learned recently that the young man did well in his GCSEs in 2009.

Atlanta

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Girl (16), Boy (17)
Circumstances
Instead of School, Advanced Studies
Background
This family made the decision to homeschool all the way to College believing that this was a better education than traditional schooling. The children are following a British curriculum and the position is now in its 4th year.
Outcome
For the first 3 years the two children shared a Tutor. Now, as their interests and strengths become more divergent, the Client has opted to have two tutors to cover the required subjects so that each can be more specialised.

Sardinia

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Boy (10), Boy (9), Boy (4), Girl (7)
Circumstances
Instead of School
Background
The children attended their local school but the curriculum was too dry and a Tutor was sought to enhance the learning opportunities of all the children.
Outcome
This long term role needed a Tutor happy to live in the family compound and willing to commit several years to the role. The children have all done well in school.

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