Tutoring
Explaining concepts and guiding a learner to the answer instead of giving it.
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- Academic integrity rules
Standing rules that keep an assistant within academic integrity. It explains, hints and gives feedback but does not complete graded work or write submissions, and says so kindly.
- Analyse an artwork
Guides an art or art history student through analysing a painting, sculpture, photograph or building, through looking, formal elements, context and interpretation, with the student observing first.
- Analyse geography fieldwork data
Coaches a geography or environmental science student through analysing their own fieldwork data, choosing graphs and tests, spotting anomalies and concluding against the hypothesis.
- Analyse a film scene
Coaches a film or media studies student through one scene using cinematography, editing, sound and mise-en-scène linked to meaning and audience, then turns the notes into a paragraph plan.
- Analyse a literary work
Guides a student through analysing a novel, play or story, covering themes, character arcs, techniques and context with quotation-led points and essay angles, while they form their own reading.
- Analyse a primary source
Teaches a student to analyse a historical primary source for provenance, purpose, audience, content and reliability, asking questions first and offering a model reading only after they try.
- Art history tutor
Acts as an art history tutor who starts from close looking, teaches formal analysis, context and iconography, compares works across periods and flags attributions and dates to verify.
- Build intuition for calculus
Builds intuition for limits, derivatives, integrals and the fundamental theorem through rates of change, zoomed-in graphs and accumulated area, with predict-then-compute questions before rules.
- Build probability intuition
Tutors probability through predict-then-check, where the learner guesses first and then works it out with trees, sample spaces, two-way tables and natural frequencies that confront common intuitions.
- Build vocabulary through word parts
Teaches academic vocabulary through prefixes, roots and suffixes for the subject a student studies, with word families, meaning from parts and a quiz on unseen words.
- Check my reasoning
Reviews a learner's worked solution or argument step by step, locates the first wrong step and asks a guiding question instead of giving the answer. Use to find your own mistake.
- Coach a DBQ essay
Coaches a student through a document-based question with sourcing, contextualisation, grouping documents and a defensible thesis, giving feedback paragraph by paragraph.
- Coach free body diagrams
Coaches a physics student to build a free body diagram in words, resolve components and write Newton's second law per axis, catching invented forces such as a force of motion.
- Coach an olympiad problem
Coaches a student through a hard maths or science olympiad problem with graded hints, asking for their attempts and teaching the general technique once it is solved.
- Coach analytical paragraphs
Coaches a student aged 11 to 16 to write one analytical paragraph with point, evidence, explanation and link, questioning each part instead of rewriting it, and shows how it would be marked.
- Coach a personal statement
Coaches a student through a university or scholarship personal statement in their own words, finding their story, shaping the structure and giving draft feedback without ghostwriting.
- Coach problem-solving heuristics
Coaches non-routine maths problem solving through Polya's four stages and named heuristics, letting the learner choose a strategy and reflecting on what worked afterwards.
- Compare two poems
Coaches a student to compare two poems for an exam or essay, finding shared themes and contrasts in form, structure and language, building a comparative thesis and integrated paragraphs.
- Computer science tutor
Acts as a school and university computer science theory tutor for algorithms, data representation, logic and complexity, teaching through traces and worked examples rather than finished code.
- Debate coach
Acts as a debate coach who trains argument construction, rebuttal and delivery, plays the opposing side on request and gives timed, specific feedback.
- Describe diagrams for a blind learner
Teaches a maths or science diagram to a blind or low-vision learner through layered verbal description, tactile-graphic suggestions and guided exploration, checking understanding with questions.
- Drill chemical equation balancing
Drills balancing chemical equations from simple to combustion, ionic and redox with an atom tally method and state symbols, giving hints instead of answers and catching changed subscripts.
- Drill debate rebuttals
Fires opposing arguments at a debater one at a time on their motion and coaches a rebuttal for each using deny, mitigate, turn or outweigh, scoring clash and precision, then summarises weak spots.
- Early reading tutor
Acts as a patient early-reading tutor for children aged four to seven, using systematic phonics, decodable practice and specific praise, and coaching the parent sitting alongside.
- Ease maths anxiety
Tutors maths gently for a learner who freezes, with low-stakes starts, untimed tasks, process praise and a small win each session, and signposts support when anxiety goes wider.
- Economics tutor
Acts as an economics tutor who teaches through models, graphs described in words and real examples, checks intuition before formulas and separates positive from normative claims.
- Engineering tutor
Acts as a first- and second-year engineering tutor for statics, dynamics, circuits and materials who insists on diagrams, units and sanity checks, and teaches problem set-up before the maths.
- Essay writing track
Coaches a student through an essay from question analysis to thesis, outline, draft feedback and a revision checklist, pausing between steps while the student writes every sentence.
- Explain a concept at a chosen level
Explains a concept at a chosen level, from child to expert, with an analogy, a worked example and one check-for-understanding question. Use when a textbook explanation is not landing.
- Explain figurative language literally
Explains idioms, metaphors, sarcasm and implied meaning in a text step by step for learners who take language literally, naming the clue that signals each non-literal meaning.
- Explain fractions with models
Tutors fractions through bar models, number lines and area models described step by step, checking the learner's model before moving to symbols. Covers equivalence to dividing.
- Explain grammar terms for pupils
Explains one school grammar term such as fronted adverbials, subordinate clauses or modal verbs to a child aged 7 to 11 with a plain definition, a spotting game and a write-your-own check.
- Explain a historical event
Explains a historical event through long and short-term causes, actors and motives, consequences and historians' debates, with a timeline and source-analysis questions. For history students.
- Explain a lesson in simple English
Re-explains a subject lesson for a learner still learning English, in simple sentences that keep and gloss the key subject words, with described visuals and quick comprehension checks.
- Explain a school maths method to a parent
Explains to a parent the maths method their child's school uses, such as column subtraction, the grid method or bus-stop division, step by step, why it is taught and how to help without clashing.
- Explain a worked solution
Explains a worked solution to a maths or science problem step by step, why each step is taken and the idea it uses, flags any error, and sets a similar problem to try next.
- Find planted errors
Plays an error-hunting game with worked solutions that hide planted mistakes; the learner finds, fixes and names each error type, and gets a score and an error-pattern debrief.
- Geography tutor
Acts as a geography tutor who links physical and human geography to real places and current issues, teaches map and data skills, and builds case studies a student can reuse in exams.
- Give feedback on an essay
Gives rubric-based feedback on a student essay covering thesis, evidence, structure and style, with prioritized revisions, without rewriting it. Use before a draft is submitted.
- Give feedback on a lab report
Gives rubric-based feedback on a student lab report covering hypothesis, method, data presentation, analysis and error discussion, with prioritised fixes and no rewriting.
- Guide me through a proof
Tutors a learner through writing a proof, from definitions to choosing a strategy (direct, contradiction, induction) and checking each step, without writing it for them. For maths and CS students.
- Hint me through a problem
Tutors a learner through a maths or science problem with progressive hints, one at a time, and reveals the full solution only on request. Use when stuck on homework or practice.
- History tutor
Acts as a history tutor who teaches causation, evidence and perspective, has students argue from sources, and corrects popular myths without lecturing.
- Homework mentor
Acts as a calm homework mentor for children aged 7 to 14 who works with the child directly, asks what the task wants, breaks it into steps, gives hints not answers and says when to ask the teacher.
- Interview a historical figure
Lets a student interview a long-dead public figure who answers in character from the documented record, tags every claim as documented, inferred or invented, and cites source types.
- Judge historical significance
Coaches a history student to judge the significance of events, people or developments against explicit criteria and build a ranked, argued answer in their own words.
- Literature tutor
Acts as a literature tutor who starts from the student's own reading, grounds every claim in the text, teaches close reading and context, and helps build arguments without writing the essay.
- Map an argument's structure
Maps an argument into premises and conclusion, surfaces unstated assumptions, tests validity and soundness separately, and teaches the learner a method to do it themselves.
- Maths gap repair track
Finds and repairs missing prior knowledge in maths before a course or exam, from a prerequisite map and short diagnostic to a gap list, mini-lessons with practice and a retest.
- Math tutor
Acts as a patient mathematics tutor who finds the misconception behind an error, uses multiple representations and guides learners to answers instead of handing them over.
- New tutee onboarding track
Takes a private tutor from first contact with a new student to an intake, a diagnostic, a term plan, a first session plan and a progress report template, pausing for approval at each step.
- Adult numeracy tutor
Acts as an adult numeracy tutor who teaches maths through learners' real lives, rebuilds confidence after bad school experiences, accepts any correct method and moves at the learner's pace.
- Philosophy tutor
Acts as a philosophy tutor who reconstructs arguments premise by premise, gives each view its strongest form, uses thought experiments and makes students define terms and defend premises.
- Plan an essay argument
Helps a student unpack an essay question, form a defensible thesis, order points with evidence and anticipate a counterargument, without drafting the essay. For coursework and exam essays.
- Play a place value game
Runs place value games for a child with an adult reading aloud, such as make the biggest number, swap the digit and guess my number, pitched at tens, hundreds, thousands or decimals.
- Practise mental maths
Runs adaptive mental arithmetic drills one problem at a time, teaching strategies such as compensation and splitting and adjusting difficulty to accuracy and speed.
- Practise historical chronology
Runs chronology games for a history period, such as ordering events, spotting the anachronism and putting causes before consequences, with verified dates and explained answers.
- Practise circuit calculations
Tutors circuit problems (series, parallel, power, potential dividers) by having the learner describe current paths and voltages before calculating, catching the current-is-used-up misconception.
- Practise unit conversion and dimensional analysis
Teaches unit conversion with factor-label chains and dimensional analysis to check formulas, with problems from science, trades, healthcare training or daily life, the learner setting up each chain.
- Practise estimation and sense-checking
Plays a quick-fire game that builds the habit of estimating before calculating and judging answers for size, units and sign, including claimed results where a slip produced something absurd.
- Practise sketching function graphs
Coaches sketching graphs of functions from their features, with the learner predicting intercepts, turning points, asymptotes, end behaviour and transformations before each check.
- Practise genetics crosses
Tutors genetics cross problems (monohybrid, dihybrid, sex-linked, codominance) by having the learner define alleles, list gametes and build text Punnett squares, catching gamete errors.
- Practise map skills
Practises map skills such as grid references, scale, contours, bearings and symbols on a described or uploaded map, checking each answer and explaining mistakes.
- Practise mole calculations
Tutors mole calculations (mass, concentration, gas volume, limiting reagent, yield) with a units-first method, asking the learner for each step and checking significant figures.
- Practise ratio and proportion
Tutors ratio, proportion and scaling with bar models and double number lines in contexts like recipes, maps, mixing and best buys, with the learner describing the model in words first.
- Practise rearranging formulas
Coaches changing the subject of a formula with balance-method reasoning, one operation per line, building from one-step formulas to subjects that appear twice or sit under roots.
- Practise a rhetorical analysis essay
Coaches a rhetorical analysis essay on a speech or article, helping the student name the writer's choices, link them to purpose and audience, and build a line of reasoning.
- Practise right-angle trigonometry
Tutors right-angle trigonometry through real contexts like ramps, ladders, roofs and navigation, with the learner labelling sides, choosing the ratio, solving and sense-checking.
- Practise sentence combining
Teaches sentence combining, where the learner joins short kernel sentences with conjunctions, relative clauses, participles or appositives and compares versions for clarity and emphasis.
- Practise summarising a text
Teaches summary writing with explicit rules (delete detail, group lists under a category, find or write the topic sentence), then checks the learner's own draft against the source.
- Practise times tables with derived facts
Runs a times-table game for a child that teaches derived-fact strategies such as doubling and ten-minus-one instead of rote drilling, tracks secure facts and ends with a fact grid.
- Practise unseen poetry analysis
Practises unseen poetry questions under exam conditions, guiding the student to annotate, form a reading, write a timed response and compare it with a model answer.
- Prepare a debate case
Prepares a debate case for a motion with definitions, two or three arguments and the evidence they need, anticipated rebuttals with responses, and a summary speech structure.
- Prepare to read a book with a child
Prepares a parent to read one specific book with their child aged 4 to 11, with before, during and after questions, words to pre-teach, phonics prompts for stuck words and a follow-up activity.
- Psychology tutor
Acts as a psychology tutor who explains studies, methods and theories with their evidence and criticisms, and teaches students to evaluate research rather than just memorise it.
- Question a book character
Lets a reader question a character from a novel or play who answers only from what the text shows, cites chapters or acts, admits gaps and never spoils past where the reader has got.
- Run a predict-observe-explain task
Runs a predict-observe-explain sequence on a science phenomenon so the learner commits to a reasoned prediction, meets what really happens and reconciles the two.
- Run repeated reading fluency practice
Runs a repeated-reading fluency session for an older struggling reader, with an age-respectful passage, a timed cold read, word practice, re-reads and a words-correct-per-minute log.
- Science tutor
Acts as a physics, chemistry and biology tutor who starts from the learner's mental model, uses diagrams, units and estimation, and fixes misconceptions with thought experiments.
- Set up a maths word problem
Teaches a learner to turn a maths word problem into variables and equations step by step, asking them to try each step before showing it, and never solving it for them until they have tried.
- Sociology tutor
Acts as a sociology tutor who teaches theories and studies with their evidence and critiques, links concepts to students' own social world and coaches evaluation in essay answers.
- Socratic tutor
Tutors by asking guiding questions and giving graded hints instead of answers, so the learner reaches the solution and can explain it. Use for studying, homework help and learning to code.
- Stage a historical debate
Stages a debate between two long-dead historical figures on a question the student chooses, with the student moderating and every position tagged against the sources.
- Statistics tutor
Acts as a statistics tutor for school and university students who teaches through data and questions, separates what a test answers from what it does not, checks assumptions and dispels p-value myths.
- Structure a lab report from your data
Scaffolds a school or first-year lab report from the student's own data, with section-by-section prompts, what each section must contain and checks on units and error analysis.
- Take a time-travel field trip
Guides a vivid imagined visit to a historical place and moment, describing sights, sounds and daily life, answering questions, and separating evidence from reconstruction.
- Talk to an everyday person from history
Lets a student talk to a clearly labelled composite ordinary person from a past time and place, such as a Roman legionary or a 1918 nurse, built from social-history evidence.
- Teach a confused classmate
Plays a confused classmate with realistic misconceptions whom the learner must teach until they understand, then debriefs on the gaps and errors the explanation revealed.
- Teach a topic with checks
Teaches any topic in short chunks with a check question after each, adjusting pace, examples and depth from the learner's answers before moving on, and ends with a recap quiz.
- Tutor adult reading and writing
Supports an adult improving their reading and writing with respectful, real-life materials such as forms, letters and menus, building one skill per session. Works for learners and volunteer tutors.
- Tutor everyday numeracy for adults
Supports an adult improving everyday maths through a real task they choose, such as a payslip, a recipe, measuring at work or a timetable, starting from the methods they already use.
- Tutor number sense for dyscalculia
Tutors a learner with dyscalculia or maths difficulties through small-step number sense work such as subitising, number lines and place value, with overlearning and no timed drills.
- Tutor reading comprehension
Tutors a reader through a text with reciprocal teaching, predicting, clarifying, questioning and summarising chunk by chunk, with prompts matched to the reader's level.
- Tutor spelling and punctuation
Finds a learner's repeated spelling or punctuation errors, teaches the rule behind each with clear examples and short targeted practice, then rechecks with their own sentences.
- Unpack a Shakespeare scene
Coaches a student through a Shakespeare scene chunk by chunk, checking they can paraphrase it before moving to staging, language, imagery, themes and context.
- Worked solution rules
Standing rules for showing maths and science working, with knowns and assumptions stated, one step per line with its reason, units carried, a sense-check and a clearly stated answer.
- Writing tutor
Acts as a writing tutor who helps students build their own argument and voice, questions thesis and evidence, and teaches revision without writing the assignment. For school and university writers.
Not: teaching code (learning); language practice (language-learning).