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Report structures

The tutor session report.

A tutoring report has four sections: concepts covered, progress, homework and next focus. Slide Practice drafts all four from the lesson recording in about a minute, you correct what is wrong, and it goes to the client under your name.

A tutor writes to somebody who was not in the room. The parent paying for a Thursday lesson cannot see the moment a student stops guessing and starts working, so the report has to carry that moment or the lesson looks the same as every other one. The four sections below are what a tutoring report comes back in, and what makes them work is that the last two are things somebody has to do rather than things that happened.

01The four sections

The four names this kind of work gets, and nothing to fill in.

  1. 01Concepts covered
  2. 02Progress
  3. 03Homework
  4. 04Next focus

You are not choosing this from a gallery. You answer one question when you sign up and these four become the shape every comes back in. Any of them can be renamed, added to or removed, and your version is what you get from then on.

02A finished report

Not a blank table. The document, written out.

Invented student: Adam, 15, GCSE chemistry, session 7 of 12.

Concepts covered
Balancing redox half equations. We worked through six on paper, starting from the two he got wrong on Monday's mock, and built the six step method out loud rather than copying it from the board.
Progress
Adam balanced four of the last five without prompting, including the manganate one he abandoned last week. He is still writing the electrons before the charges, which is slower but not wrong, and he caught his own error twice without being asked to check.
Homework
Mock paper section B, questions one to eight, half equations only. Skip the rest of section B, we have not covered it. About forty minutes. Bring the paper on Thursday whether or not it is finished.
Next focus
Open with the six steps from memory, no notes, then straight into two equations under time. If the six steps hold we move to electrolysis.

Every person, session and number above was written for this page. No real client is shown. The four section names are not samples: they are the sections the product fills in today.

03What clients ask for

Three things the reader of this report is actually looking for.

  • Whether the money is doing anything, which is answered by a progress line that names last week and this week.
  • What their child is meant to be doing before the next lesson, in a form they can check on a Sunday evening.
  • Which topic is next, so the school's own timetable and yours are not pulling in opposite directions.

04What goes wrong

Four mistakes, and each one costs a renewal rather than a mark.

  • Writing what you taught rather than what the student did. A parent cannot tell a good lesson from a bad one out of a list of topics.
  • Homework with no size and no deadline. Forty minutes and Thursday is a task; more practice is a wish.
  • Writing it three days later from memory, which is where the specific detail a parent would have paid for quietly disappears.
  • The same four sentences every week with the topic swapped, which a parent notices within a month and never mentions until they cancel.

05How it gets written

Five steps, and four of them take no time at all.

  1. 01Record the session

    Record on a phone, a laptop or the call software you already work on, with everybody in the session having agreed out loud first.

  2. 02Upload the recording

    Upload the file when the session ends, or paste a transcript if your call software already made one.

  3. 03Read the draft

    The draft comes back in about a minute, in the four sections: Concepts covered, Progress, Homework, Next focus.

  4. 04Correct it

    Change anything that is wrong and add anything the recording missed. Nothing goes anywhere until you have done this.

  5. 05Send it

    It goes to the client under your own name and stays on their own page with every report before it.

06Where this came from

Two sources outside this company.

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