Case Studies: Full Time, Home Schooling

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:

Sardinia

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Boy (10), Boy (9), Boy (4), Girl (7)
Problems
Home Schooling
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.

Atlanta

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Girl (16), Boy (17)
Problems
Home Schooling
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.

Newbury

Delivery
Full Time, Short Term
Students
Boy (13)
Problems
After School, Home Schooling
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.

Gstaad

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Girl (10), Boy (12)
Problems
After School, Home Schooling
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.

Stockport

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Girl (9), Girl (7)
Problems
Home Schooling, 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.

South Pacific

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Boy (4), Boy (5)
Problems
Home Schooling, Instead of School, Specialist Tuition, 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.

Pennsylvania

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Girl (12), Girl (2), Boy (10), Boy (8)
Problems
Home Schooling, Instead of School, Travel
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.

Oxfordshire

Delivery
Full Time, Short Term
Students
Boy (15)
Problems
Home Schooling, Instead of School, Unhappy at School
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.

Normandy

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Child
Problems
Home Schooling, Instead of School, Travel
Background
This highly academic child actor needed an excellent Tutor to maintain preparation for his GCSEs in 14 subjects while on set making a big budget film.
Outcome
Despite the challenges of working from a caravan and fitting around the filming schedule, the Tutor was able to help ensure that the boy passed all his exams with A* and A grades.

Newhaven

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Boy (8), Girl (6)
Problems
Home Schooling, Instead of School, Travel, Unhappy at School
Background
This family were disappointed with the quality of schooling on offer near their home and sought a Tutor to homeschool their children instead. This lifestyle choice also allowed the parents the freedom to travel for extended periods.
Outcome
The Tutor was able to create a superb curriculum for the children, taking advantage of the resources locally, whether in the US or travelling in Africa.

New Jersey

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Girl (6), Boy (7), Boy (3)
Problems
Home Schooling, Instead of School
Background
A full time private tutor was sought to homeschool three children of a high profile Client in New Jersey. The role required complete discretion, and had a particularly wide remit including several languages.
Outcome
The position was filled by a teaching couple who between them were able to offer all the required subjects.

Montreal

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Boy (15)
Problems
Home Schooling, Instead of School
Background
This highly academic child actor needed an excellent Tutor to maintain preparation for his GCSEs in 14 subjects while on set making a big budget film.
Outcome
Despite the challenges of working from a caravan and fitting around the filming schedule, the Tutor was able to help ensure that the boy passed all his exams with A* and A grades.

Marbella

Delivery
Full Time, Short Term
Students
Girl (5), Girl (2)
Problems
Home Schooling, Instead of School
Background
The Tutor's role was to provide the girls with some structured, fun, educational activities during the spring and summer school vacations so that the time was not spent idly, and so that the girls were prepared for school the following September.
Outcome
The remit was filled as requested and the children had a productive and enjoyable summer holiday.

London

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Girl (18), Girl (13), Boy (15)
Problems
Home Schooling, Instead of School
Background
The eldest girl had failed to gain the grades she needed in her AS levels and was therefore at risk of not achieving the overall grades she needed for her first choice University. Her brother was preparing for GCSEs at the same time, and the younger girl had some mild dyslexia that merited occasional support.
Outcome
By far the greatest emphasis of the Tutor's work was with the eldest girl, who was to be homeschooled instead of attending a private sixth form college in London. By the end of the first term, the courses taken so far had been reviewed and the girl scored 3 As in her modules. At the end of the year the girl's final grades were AAB and she was accepted to her first choice University. The younger brother and the sister also thrived with the Tutor's support.

London

Delivery
Full Time
Students
Boy (15)
Problems
Home Schooling, Instead of School, Unhappy at School
Background
This young man had been removed from his excellent private school due to concerns about the quality of pastoral care at the school. Half way through his GCSE course he was unable to find another suitable school and so his father opted to homeschool him for the final year of GCSEs.
Outcome
Under the guidance of excellent Tutors the boy is planning on taking 14 GCSEs. He is ambitious and highly motivated, keen to make this year something in which he can look back on with immense pride in his achievements.

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