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Before I leave, to give you a quick in-sight into my thought the idea is this: A tutor will take on an apprentice for their chosen topic. The tutor will outline their course to the apprentice, and the apprentice must see it through to the end. At the end of said course, every tutor must present an "exam". A small test encompassing the topics the tutor has previously covered. The tutor will then rate this and "pass" or "fail" it. How a tutor marks this piece is down to them. Should an apprentice "fail" then the tutor can either offer them a new session, re-adding them to the queue, or give them a retest, with short recap sessions.
Those are just terms btw, there is no passing or failing. You will improve, and all that really matters in the end is that you take something away from your mentor, and learn something. Tutors will present to me a course, including things like duration, and content, and apprentices will get to choose what they want to learn.
The rules will be very strict, to make sure this program functions efficiently and properly for everyone's benefit. Deviation from the rules would for example earn you punishments like a school; warnings, exclusion, expulsion. Rules would include things like banning questions related to hacking, using the tutor's content and so on. In this way, the school should function smoothly and be a fun and learning experience for everyone.
Mmm does it have to be 1 on 1? : | I think that's too intimidating for beginners and leaves out collaboration projects! I always encourage working together/seeing each others work at the same time.
Also I wouldn't know how to give a final exam for an art class, as we never had them. We just graded the all the projects and did a final review on all the previous works while talking about where you started, what you've done, and a future plan.
(I like pass fail thou, we did grades @ SCAD unlike most art colleges and most professors hated it.)
Would all subjects have strict rules or is it tutor by tudor basis? I perfectly understand Fairy's sentiment about not wanting work to be used in hacking or being asked about it, but I personally don't mind it and would want to encourage doing assignments that would double for any use you need them for.
Is the tutoring only to teach specific mediums? Would it be open to something more, such as instead of
"I'm going to teach drawing. With a pencil." can I do a course in Visual Development, learning how to brainstorm, thumbnail, comp, color comps etc.?