by Samantha Nichols | Jan 16, 2019 | Tutors
Hi, I’m Sam, and I’m one of the Co-Founders of Get My Grades. My husband and Co-Founder, John, has been a private tutor now for 7 years and has over 8000 hours of tuition under his belt. I, on the other hand, have a solid background in operations and...
by Samantha Nichols | Jan 2, 2019 | Education, Students, University
Hi I’m Sam, I studied geography at the University of Portsmouth and I’m one of the co-founders of Get My Grades! In this blog, I’m going to tell you a little bit about what it’s like to study geography.Throughout secondary school, my...
by Bryden Commons | Dec 28, 2018 | Education, Students, University
Hi, I’m Bryden, and I studied a Bachelor of Behavioural Science at the University of Queensland. I now work for Get My Grades as Head of SEN and Inclusion and in this latest edition of ‘What it was like to Study…’ I’m going to tell you a little more about what it was...
by Dr. Charlotte Forrest | Dec 23, 2018 | Education, Students, University
Hi I’m Charlotte, I studied a PhD in Psychology at the University of Exeter and I now work at Get My Grades as their Head of Research. In this blog, I’m going to tell you a little bit about what it’s like to study for a PhD and how you might go about finding one.A PhD...
by Jenn Linning | Dec 22, 2018 | Teachers, Tutors
In this blog series, we have explored ways in which we can develop students’ spoken answers so that, in turn, we can help them to improve their written ones. Strategies such as probing, restating, rehearsing, scaffolding, and mapping can help to push students to the...
by Jenn Linning | Dec 19, 2018 | Teachers, Tutors
Now that we have explored various different strategies for developing student answers, it’s time to use our own ‘rehearsal’ strategy and plan exactly how we are going to help students make the leap between one-sentence spoken responses and the complex, detailed...
