How to Run and Structure Lessons

There are a few quick things we recommend you do pre-lesson with each of your students:

• Send your student a quick reminder text message the day before your lesson:

"Hey <student_name>, see you tomorrow at <lesson_time> for our lesson!"

• If there's any content you need to go over, make sure to revise it with your KIS Academics resources: https://learn.kisacademics.com/collections
• Depending on what topic you're covering during the lesson, make sure to print out or send a blank worksheet from your KIS Academics resources to the student. 

1. Smalltalk

Chat a little: ask them how their week was, if they've seen any good tiktoks or follow @kis_academics. Rapport is something that you should ALWAYS be working on with your students.

But this works both ways - tell them about your life too, they'll be interested! Tell them about how annoying your uni group assignment team is, or about how you've been glued to a new Netflix show. When you were at school, uni students seemed sooo cool and interesting. Students love hearing about your lives and what university is like - tell them!

2. School Check-In

Really straightforward - just ask the student what they're covering at school right now. This will give you a chance to find out what topics they're doing at school, what tests or assignments are coming up, and whether your lessons are ahead of or at the same pace as school teachers. You can plan you future lessons based on this.

3. Questions

Ask if they have any questions or things they'd like to go over from the week. Sometimes students will forget to ask these until the very end, and it could be too late to address them then. Going through questions at the start of the lesson is the best time to do it.

4. Two Sentence Summary

Say what you did last week, then what you're going to do this week. This is literally just to put things in perspective:

"So last week, we covered Redox reactions, and specifically focused on learning how to predict reaction pathways for redox cells, and did some challenge questions too. This week, we're going to move on to Electrolysis and go over the differences between Galvanic and Electrolytic Cells."

5. Content

This is the main bulk of the lesson.

Depending on your subject, you've probably got some "regular" content to go over. In many cases, this will just be content or worksheets from the relevant KIS Academics Courses at https://learn.kisacademics.com/collections or using any subject resources available too.

You're also welcome to use any of your own resources, or resources the student provides. This is the part of the lesson where you shine - use whatever resources you need to be an amazing tutor.

6. End + Scheduling

Once you're done with your lesson, the next super important thing to do is schedule in your next session. Usually this will just be the same time a week later, but it's important to do this to make sure you have no conflicts with the student's schedule for that week.

1. Send them an invoice for the lesson on the KIS App! Doing it immediately ensures that you do not forget. If you have questions about the KIS App, you can check out this article: KIS App FAQs
2. Send the student/parent a message locking in the next scheduled lesson, and put it into your calendar if you need to. It is very important to leave a paper trial proving that you've confirmed the lesson, and that your student is aware of it too, especially if they try to dispute a cancellation fee somewhere down the road. 
3. If required to, you should leave the parent a brief update about their child's progress too. 

Tutoring is not always a piece of cake. Here is an article with some possible scenarios you may face, and how you can deal with them: How to Deal with Difficult Situations in Classes