Pupils benefiting from additional maths, English and science tuition

27 October 2011, Cambridge – TLC Education Group, the Cambridge-based specialist maths, English and science tutoring provider, today announces that Coleridge Community College and Parkside Community College in Cambridge have implemented its new learning software TLC Live!, with around 60 sessions already taking place in the first month. It allows the schools to offer a flexible, first-class, one-to-one, educational experience to pupils that need additional help with maths English and science, or need to study remotely.

Children log in to the online platform with designated user details and select curriculum based activities, which are administered in real-time by a qualified teacher. Children undertake a free initial assessment which helps the teacher identify areas of learning focus and tailor lessons accordingly.

Stephen Morris, a teacher at Coleridge School in Cambridge comments on the offering: “Some of our pupils require extra help before they can move on to other topics. TLC Live! allows our teachers to offer this additional tuition in class-time, so the struggling pupils catch up while the other children in the class progress with the curriculum as planned. As all the online tuition is based on the current curriculum and TLC only uses qualified teachers, it works well as a flexible tool.”     

Morris continues: “Pupils that cannot regularly make it to the school premises, whether due to illness or school phobia for example, shouldn’t have to miss out on their education just because they’re located elsewhere. Using qualified teachers to teach curriculum focused subjects remotely, means the absent pupils keep up with lessons and can easily fit in to school life on their return.”

Simon Barnes, Director of TLC Education Group, explains: “We’ve developed TLC Live! to be able to affordably offer schools and their pupils another way of learning maths, English and science subjects. We’ve found teachers primarily use it as a flexible learning aid to help struggling pupils during class time. While our teachers bring the children up to speed, the teacher in the school can concentrate on the rest of their class.

“Our primary focus during the platform’s development was security. While we only use CRB-checked qualified teachers in all our lessons, we still felt it necessary to protect both staff and pupils by monitoring conversations, performing random spot checks and deploying ‘secret shoppers’.”

The sessions cost schools £15 per hour and are designed for children aged between 6 and 16. In the long term TLC Education hopes to make the platform available to other social demographics, like the prison population for example, which will also benefit from one-to-one online tuition with a qualified teacher. TLC Live! can also be used as a private tuition aid by children located anywhere with an internet connection.