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Being a Brilliant Tutoring Programme Tutor

The Brilliant Club’s Brilliant Tutoring Programme involves delivering a pre-designed, curriculum focused course and offers Masters students, PhD researchers and doctoral graduates a paid opportunity to advance their professional development and develop the necessary skills to support pupils from less advantaged backgrounds. Training with The Brilliant Club and working as a BTP tutor also enables researchers to enrich their understanding of the UK education system through pedagogical theory training and first-hand teaching experience.

Tutors working with us will:

• Support disadvantaged pupils whose learning has been disrupted by Covid-19 through the delivery of curriculum-focused modules
• Receive expert training and real experience to develop their teaching and other transferable skills including content creation, communication, and digital competency
• Tutors will be paid a stipend on a monthly basis (See FAQs for more details on payment)
• Join a nationwide community of researchers making a significant impact on pupils’ learning
• Develop competencies compatible with Vitae’s Researcher Development Framework

Tutors will be supported in completing a series of training modules before beginning their placement and offered further support through a tutorial observation to receive constructive feedback. Tutors are assigned a Programme Officer to support programme logistics and provide support throughout the placement.

Once you are trained and assigned a place in one of our schools, you will run a placement in which you will deliver 15 hours of tutoring to two groups of 3 pupils (A total of 30 hours of tuition per placement).

What does a placement with the Brilliant Tutoring Programme look like?

Phase One: Training. Tutors complete a series of training modules which prepare them for delivering the tutorials.

Phase Two: Logistics. The placement school will be confirmed. Working with the Programme Officer and the school’s Lead Teacher, the programme virtual learning environment (VLE} will be set up.

Phase Three: Deliver the tutorials.

• Tutorial 1: Introduction and tutors set a baseline assessment
• Tutorials 2-5: Teach the first module
• Tutorials 6-9: Teach second module
• Tutorials 10-13: Teach third module
• Tutorial 14: Tutors set the end of programme assessment
• Tutorial 15: Feedback and reflection. Tutors share feedback and work with the pupils to reflect on their progress and new learning strategies.

Phase Four: Payment. Tutors are paid for every placement delivered.