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 Community College 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.”     

TLC Live! is subject to rigorous security controls. All written correspondence is recorded and TLC Education will use ‘secret shoppers’ to feed back on the learning experience. The company will also have the ability to ‘listen in’ to sessions in order to monitor conversations between the teacher and pupil.

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.     

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TLC Education Group was founded in July 2010 by managing director Simon Barnes and specialises in maths and English tuition, GCSE and common entrance exam preparation, for children aged between 6 and 16. TLC Education Group is the only tutoring organisation to have centres in schools all year around, and offers tailored learning programmes in small classroom environments with a maximum teacher to pupil ratio of five to one. TLC Education Group currently has an independent tutoring centre in Cambridge and five further centres housed within the following schools: Samuel Ward Academy, Wymondham High School, Coleridge Community College, Parkside Community College and the Open Academy.

For more information on TLC Education Group, please visit: www.tlceducationgroup.com

Qualified CRB-checked teachers provide bespoke tuition based on needs and skills gaps identified in a comprehensive initial assessment. Learning Centres are located onsite at each school, with tutoring sessions taking place in study periods or after school.  

Pupils work independently on TLC Education’s unique learning software, which provides modules based on the national curriculum. A qualified teacher monitors progress, answers questions and helps them get through difficult material. Each teacher works with an average of four pupils at any given time (with no more than five in a lesson), enabling one-to-one tuition at affordable rates.

Simon Barnes, Director of TLC Education Group, explains: “We are operating in some of the finest and fastest improving schools in East Anglia. Our partnerships mean that we can help improve examination grades and build confidence in students of all ages and abilities. Within these partnerships, we also welcome students from the wider community, from schools other than those in which we are located.”  

Howard Lay, Headmaster at Samuel Ward Academy comments: “I can highly recommend TLC Education’s Learning Centres. They have been assisting us with our GCSE students and have had a significant impact on raising our students’ achievements. We are also working with them on other year groups with equal success. I look forward to our continued partnership.”

Barnes concludes: “We are planning to open Learning Centres throughout the UK and we are in discussions with many schools about starting partnerships.”

TLC Education Group also has an independent Learning Centre based in Bishop’s Stortford offering maths and English tuition, GCSE and common entrance exam preparation. The tuition specialists assess children for free in order to identify the academic challenges they are facing.                                                                         

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For more information or further editorial opportunities, please contact:

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tlce@toplinecomms.com
+44 (0)207 580 6502

About TLC Education Group

TLC Education Group was founded in July 2010 by managing director Simon Barnes and specialises in maths and English tuition, GCSE and common entrance exam preparation, for children aged between 6 and 16. TLC Education Group is the only tutoring organisation to have Learning Centres in schools all year around, and offers tailored learning programmes in small classroom environments with a maximum teacher to pupil ratio of five to one. TLC Education Group currently has an independent Learning Centre in Bishop’s Stortford and five further Centres housed within the following schools: Samuel Ward Academy, Wymondham High School, Coleridge Community College, Parkside Community College and the Open Academy.

For more information on TLC Education Group, please visit: www.tlceducationgroup.com