Holistic Tutoring 🌱
for all K-12 Subjects

1 on 1 Tutoring:
- Beneficial for highly motivated students.
- Suitable for students who can stay focused on their own at home and complete the assigned work in between sessions to maximise time spend during the tutoring session.
- Effective for targeted assessment support, and filling knowledge gaps from prior topics
- Recommended for students who are accelerating and wanting to move ahead.
- Helpful for students who are struggling academically and need personalised attention.
- Recommended for students who experience anxiety in group settings and are not comfortable asking questions in a group.

What are the benefits of 1 on 1 Tutoring?
- Students receive targeted support and individual attention.
- Focus and accountability are emphasised.
- Helps fill in knowledge gaps.
- Provides a comfortable environment for asking questions.

Small Group Tutoring:
- Comprehensive explicit syllabus content instruction ensuring students build strong knowledge foundations.
- These are recommended for students who need accountability and struggle with procrastination as with more time spent with a tutor, students complete more study with us.
- Effective for exposing students to challenging exam style questions so they can practise difficult questions and get exam ready.
- Offers opportunities to learn from other students' questions and can lead to higher student energy levels and engagement.
- Provides a perspective on where the student stands academically compared to peers.
- Fosters camaraderie and a social learning environment.

What are the benefits of Small Group Tutoring?
- Students are held accountable and can complete their work during the session.
- Encouraged to tackle challenging questions and get exam ready
- Learn from other students' questions and gain different perspectives.
- Helps gauge academic standing and reduce overwhelm.
- Allows for social interaction and camaraderie.
- Comprehensive explicit content instruction to support strong content knowledge

The Hybrid Approach (Combining One-on-One and Small Group Tutoring):
- We offer a hybrid approach that combines the benefits of both tutoring styles.
- Small group sessions focus on teaching content and working on challenging questions.
- One-on-one sessions provide personalised attention and help fill knowledge gaps.
- Offers a chance to ask questions and get extra support in a more individualised setting.
- Students can move forward in small groups while addressing specific needs in one-on-one sessions.

Ultimately, the choice between one-on-one tutoring and small group tutoring depends on your child's specific needs, preferences, and learning goals. If your child is highly motivated, needs targeted support, struggles in group settings, or requires individual attention, one-on-one tutoring may be more suitable.

On the other hand, if your child needs accountability, help with motivation, enjoys learning with peers, and benefits from learning from others, small group tutoring could be the better option. Alternatively, the hybrid approach we offer combines the benefits of both tutoring styles, providing a comprehensive and personalised learning experience for students.

For our 1 on 1 tutoring sessions, they typically run for a minimum of 1 hour. However, for students in Year 11 or Year 12, we would recommend 1.5 to 2-hour sessions per week to cover all of the content they need to learn (both gaps from prior content, and new upcoming content), while also helping them to prepare for upcoming assessments and exams.

To ensure students are getting the most out of their support with us, we have a discussion with our student and their parents to define their learning goals, in order to identify a recommended tutoring plan that is the right fit for them.

As part of our tutoring services, we provide comprehensive state specific syllabus aligned lesson resources across Kindergarten/Prep through to Year 12 to support your learning and help you succeed academically.

Our lesson resources are carefully created and designed by qualified teachers that align with the NSW, QLD and VIC curriculums and study designs. Whether you need worked examples, notes, sample essays, additional practice problems, study guides, or other materials, we've got you covered with our comprehensive selection of print and online lesson resources covering English, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Economics and more!

We understand that students have different preferences when it comes to learning materials, which is why we offer our resources in both print and online formats.

Our print materials are designed to be easy to use and convenient, allowing you to study and review the material at your own pace. We are one of the only tutoring organisations to ship printed resource books to your home as part of your tutoring experience.

Our online resources are also available to help you learn on the go, digitally accessible through the Art of Smart Online learning app, and provide you with the flexibility to access them from anywhere, at any time.

Yes, we do conduct assessments so we can build a personalised support plan for each student.

K-6
Our K-6 assessments have been designed by qualified primary school teachers and are aligned to the national curriculum. These assessments across English and Maths provide both our tutor and yourself as a parent with a clear understanding of which outcomes your child is excelling at, and which ones they will need more support in. Your Art of Smart tutor will also ask to see any recent school reports, or NAPLAN results, and then use all of this to tailor the tutoring support to help your child achieve their best.

7-12: Kickstarter Session
Across Year 7-12, our tutors conduct an initial Kickstarter Session with students that focuses on identifying a student's goals for school, their current progress in the subject on recent assessments and school reports and the particular challenges the student is experiencing. Additionally, given our holistic approach, our tutors also identify a student’s current study routines, study strategies for the subject, and any other study related challenges they may be experiencing which is also impacting their ability to excel. Our tutor will then develop a suggested lesson plan and focus to help the student both with the academic content of the subject, and their study approach to help improve their results.

Tracking how a student is progressing with their learning is essential to understanding where we can better support them. We do this through:


- Regular feedback check-ins with parents after your first lesson with a tutor, and throughout the school year
- Lesson reports from your tutor after every lesson with engagement, homework completion, key lesson objectives and important feedback for a parent
- Weekly Quizzes, termly topic tests, and end of year mock exams to provide students with exam preparation and identify student progress and opportunities for targeted support.

Our small group tutoring classes are held weekly and in duration:

- Year 3 to Year 4: 1 hour
- Year 7 to Year 10: 1.5 hours
- Year 11 to Year 12: 1.5 hours to 2.5 hours

For 1 on 1 sessions, we recommend having weekly lessons, but these can be flexible and tailored to your needs. On average, students who have weekly 1.5 hour tutoring lessons over a school year see a mark improvement of over 20%!