Tony and William Tutoring Show (TAWT)

William and Tony discuss the differences between teaching in a classroom and tutoring in person or online. William has more classroom teaching experience in a range of private schools, whilst Tony is a full time tutor with a state school teaching background. Most of Tony's tutoring is evening work, on a one-to-one basis, both online and in-person (in Science and Maths), whilst William teaches...

Tony and William touch on broad themes relating to personal development, with Tony talking about overcoming and changing bad habits in his quest to regain "normal" weight, ideas of "Tiny Habits" and effectiveness in good habit development, "Mindset" and its role in facilitating life-changing new learning and other topics. Interestingly this was recorded just days befo...

In this third episode, William recounts his experiences of teaching, living and bringing up his family in China and Vietnam over more than half of his life. Tony also recalls experiences from the early 2000s in southern China as a teacher and Western expat. They compare thoughts on the education system in the East with that in the West, and bring it forward to the modern day. As a current and futu...

Tony tells William about his ultimately successful application to Downing College, Cambridge University in 1997, leading to his studies of Natural Sciences (biological) from 1998 - 2001. He compares the experience of applying for Cambridge then with the process in the modern day, and how they differ, but also some commonalities in terms of the types of candidates that may succeed. William tries to...

In their first episode, Tony and William introduce themselves before doing a deep-dive into William's perspective on all things A-level Economics. Tony asks William the questions to enable him to share his expertise, and Tony tries to make sense of the answers he provides. Why would students study A-level Economics in the first place, what is it, what sorts of questions do students have to ans...