Teaching and education
Teaching paths reward two things the application can verify: real experience with children — coaching, tutoring, camp leadership, Sunday school, anything sustained — and genuine depth in the subject to be taught. The experience matters because teaching is discovered by doing it; plenty of people love a subject and discover they cannot stand explaining it.
How old is your child?
First real responsibility for other children: assistant coaching, peer tutoring, helping at a club. Subject depth begins in whatever they might one day teach.
What most families do instead.
Families treat teaching as a default requiring no preparation, so the applicant has never actually taught anyone anything. The sustained-experience evidence is cheap to build and almost nobody builds it.
What the record looks like after two years on this path.
- A year or more of regular experience with children, logged
- Subject assessment levels in the teaching subject, tracked
- One reflection written after a term of tutoring or coaching
- A reference from an adult who supervised the experience
What to do this month.
- 1
Find one regular slot working with younger children — tutoring, coaching, a club.
- 2
Run the assessment in the subject they would teach.
Sign up and the first conversation already knows the direction. The plan Cora builds is aimed at it from day one.
A path your child has not chosen will not survive the work. We build toward the direction you have in mind by getting your child genuinely interested in it — that is not a softer version of the goal, it is the only version that arrives.
And if they change direction at sixteen, the record survives it. Finishing things, building things, working with people — the evidence transfers.