Future-Proof Your Kid: Teach Them to Code
What if you could give your children that leverage achieve extraordinary things? It turns out you can, by giving them the ability to code.
What if you could give your children that leverage achieve extraordinary things? It turns out you can, by giving them the ability to code.
Since the start of term 3, SkillUp has been teaching to more than 300 girls from grades 3 to 6 at Rustenburg Girls' Junior School how to code.
The month of August is Women's Month in South Africa, and we're celebrating with enthusiasm and gratitude as we focus on our female tutors and what makes them awesome. We interviewed 5 of our top female tutors to get to know them, and their perspective on tutoring.
Our very own CEO, Matt Henshall, was recently featured in both Fast Company SA, and African Independent magazines.
SkillUp in partnership with [Imbeko.org](http://imbeko.org/) is excited to change the way we learn Xhosa and Zulu in South Africa - all from the comfort of your home.
Maths doesn’t always need to be boring! We have found five games that can make learning Maths a lot more fun! The aim of this post is to help parents find fun ways in which their children can learn different Mathematics skills in a way that they also find fun. Maths can be fun.
Your initial engagement with a student is incredibly important and will set a precedence for your learning relationship. Your first engagement may not necessarily be the first lesson, but begins from the when a student, interested in lessons, makes contact with you.
In this blog, we explain how to use a SWOT analysis to inform your lesson plan when tutoring students, whether one-on-one or as an online tutor.
“The aim of teaching is not to produce learning but to produce the conditions for learning, that is the focal point, the quality of learning”
So what is a Tutor? A tutor is someone who gives an individual or a small groups of students instructions in the learning of new information or skills.
Looking for school holidays and calendar for 2018? Look no further, we've put together a school calendar that includes public school holidays as well as private school holidays.
To anyone who has ever done any form of teaching or tutoring there is one thing that goes without saying, you learn a lot from teaching.
Ever heard of Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem? Yeah, not the catchiest title is it? But it is a very interesting problem nonetheless. The problem is described by educational researcher, Benjamin S. Bloom, in his 1984 paper titled, The 2 Sigma Problem The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring.