Do you tutor students at French lycees abroad?

Yes. I work online with students of the AEFE network anywhere in the world: London, Dubai, Singapore, Tokyo, Casablanca, Madrid, San Francisco, Sao Paulo and elsewhere. The syllabus is the same as in Montreal, because every accredited French lycee follows the official national curriculum and sits the same examinations.

How do you handle the time difference from Montreal?

The time difference is an advantage rather than an obstacle. Montreal is at UTC-5: late afternoon in Paris, Madrid or Casablanca is the middle of my day, and late afternoon in Dubai is my morning. A student can have their session right after school, during my full working hours. For Asia, the student's evening falls in my morning: 8 pm in Beijing, Shanghai or Hong Kong is 7 am in Montreal in winter and 8 am in summer. Weekends are open too.

Do you prepare Baccalaureate papers by examination zone?

Yes. Baccalaureate papers are published by examination centre: North America, Foreign Centres (Europe, Africa, Middle East), Asia, Lebanon, South America, Polynesia and New Caledonia. I work with the student on the past papers actually set in their zone, because the writing conventions and the recurring exercises differ, and because the date of the paper changes the whole revision calendar.

Do you follow shifted school calendars such as the southern rhythm?

Yes. Schools on the southern rhythm (South America, Australia, southern Africa) start their year in February or March and finish in November or December, with Baccalaureate papers in the autumn. I plan the follow-up on the real calendar of the student's school, including shifted holidays and report periods.

The AEFE network, worldwide

Online AEFE Tutor: maths and science for French lycees worldwide

Q: How does payment work from abroad?

By PayPal from any country, or by Interac transfer for families with a Canadian bank account. A receipt is available on request. Sessions are paid afterwards or in blocks, whichever suits the family.

Online tutoring for students of the French curriculum, wherever they study: London, Dubai, Singapore, Tokyo, Casablanca, Madrid, San Francisco, Sao Paulo. Mathematics, physics-chemistry, NSI and SVT, from Sixieme to Terminale, with Brevet and Baccalaureate preparation. I am based in Montreal, and the time difference works in your favour: late afternoon where you are falls in the middle of my day.

More than 10 years working with students of the AEFE network, including those at Lycee Marie de France and College Stanislas in Montreal. Because the syllabus is identical in every accredited school, the work transfers unchanged from one country to another. Sessions in English or in French.

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One syllabus, more than 130 countries

The AEFE, the agency for French education abroad, runs the network of French schools accredited by the French Ministry of Education, present in more than 130 countries. A Terminale student at the French lycee in Dubai, one at the French lycee in Singapore and one at Lycee Marie de France in Montreal are working the same chapter, to the same expectations, for the same final examinations.

That is what makes distance tutoring particularly effective for this group. There is nothing to adapt: the definitions, the required proofs, the presentation markers expect, the coefficients, all identical. What changes from country to country is three concrete things: the time zone, the school calendar and the zone in which the student will sit their examinations. All three are covered below.

Many expatriate families run into the same problem: in the city where they live, a private teacher who genuinely commands the French speciality syllabus, and not only the local curriculum, is rare or unavailable. Online sessions remove that geographical constraint.

Montreal's time difference works in your favour

Montreal is at UTC-5. That gap, which looks like an obstacle, is actually the main advantage here: when your child finishes school in the late afternoon, it is still the middle of my day. The session therefore falls neither late at night for the student nor in the middle of the night for the tutor. It is exactly the slot families are looking for, and one few tutors can offer from Europe or the Middle East.

Here are the slots that work best by city, in Eastern Standard Time.

Student's city	Difference	Session locally	Time in Montreal
Paris, Madrid, Brussels, Geneva	+6 h	5 pm to 7 pm	11 am to 1 pm
London, Dublin	+5 h	5 pm to 7 pm	12 pm to 2 pm
Casablanca, Rabat, Tunis	+6 h	5 pm to 7 pm	11 am to 1 pm
Dakar, Abidjan	+5 h	5 pm to 7 pm	12 pm to 2 pm
Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha	+9 h	5 pm to 7 pm	8 am to 10 am
Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore	+13 h	7 pm to 9 pm	6 am to 8 am
Tokyo, Seoul	+14 h	8 pm to 10 pm	6 am to 8 am
Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires	+2 h	5 pm to 7 pm	3 pm to 5 pm
San Francisco, Los Angeles	-3 h	4 pm to 6 pm	7 pm to 9 pm

The gaps shift by an hour during the few weeks when daylight saving changes do not coincide between countries. I recalculate the slots then and warn the family in advance. China, Hong Kong and Japan never change their clocks, so only the Canadian side moves, twice a year. For Asia, the student's evening falls in my morning, and Saturdays work very well.

Weekday slots

Right after the student's school day, while they are still focused, rather than at 9 pm after dinner.

Weekends available

Saturday and Sunday are open, useful for Asia, Oceania and intensive revision periods.

A fixed weekly slot

One reserved slot each week, so the calendar is not renegotiated across two time zones every session.

Baccalaureate preparation by examination zone

The Baccalaureate papers are not sat everywhere on the same date, and the papers themselves are not the same. They are written and published by examination centre. A Terminale student in Dubai will not sit the metropolitan paper, and a student in San Francisco sits their speciality papers before most of the rest of the network.

That is why practice is done on the past papers actually set in the student's zone. The recurring exercises, the length of the papers and the expected style of writing differ from one centre to another, and the date of the examination changes the entire revision schedule.

North America

United States, Canada. Among the earliest speciality papers in the network, which means the syllabus has to be finished early. Practice on past North America papers under real conditions.

Europe, Africa, Middle East

London, Madrid, Brussels, Casablanca, Tunis, Dakar, Abidjan, Dubai, Doha. Foreign Centres and Lebanon papers, supplemented by metropolitan papers as extra practice.

Asia and the Pacific

Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Bangkok, plus Polynesia and New Caledonia. Asia and Polynesia papers, often long, which makes time management something to train well before the day.

South America

Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay. Largely on the southern rhythm, with papers in the autumn and a revision calendar entirely offset from the rest of the network.

The same principle applies to the Brevet in Troisieme, whose papers are also published by centre. See Brevet preparation and Baccalaureate preparation.

Northern rhythm, southern rhythm and shifted holidays

The French network abroad runs on two distinct school calendars. The follow-up is set against the student's own school, not the Quebec calendar and not the metropolitan one.

Northern rhythm

Start in August or September, year running to June, final examinations in June.

Europe, North America, North and West Africa, the Middle East, Asia. The calendar of the large majority of schools.

Southern rhythm

Start in February or March, year running to November or December, Baccalaureate papers in the autumn.

South America, Australia, southern Africa. The long holidays fall in December and January, in the middle of the Montreal winter.

Concretely, a Terminale student in Buenos Aires is deep in examination revision at the moment a student in Paris is coming back from the summer holidays. I work with both, and in each case the plan follows the school's official calendar: graded test dates, report periods, mock examinations, local holidays.

Shifted holidays are also an opportunity. A family on the southern rhythm can book an intensive block in January, when nobody in the northern network is working. See intensive formats and catching up.

How the online sessions run

1. A first exchange to frame things

By WhatsApp or email: the school, the level, the specialities, the examination zone, the local calendar, and what is actually going wrong. We then fix the weekly slot from your time zone.

2. A shared whiteboard on Teams and OneNote

The student and I write at the same time on the same page, exactly as on paper. These are the tools already used in most French lycees, so there is nothing new to learn.

3. Everything stays available after the session

The digital notebook keeps every proof, every annotated correction and every diagram. The student reopens them to revise, and parents can look in.

4. Support between sessions, included

A question the night before a graded test, a photo of a problem they are stuck on: the student writes and I answer, at no extra charge. That often makes the difference when the family is thousands of kilometres away.

5. Homework under real conditions

Past papers from your zone, timed, sent back as photographs then marked against the official scheme. It is the only reliable way to know where the student stands before the examination.

A free bank of corrected exercises

Students of the AEFE network often have limited access to French-language resources where they live. The site makes available, free and with no sign-up, a bank of corrected exercises covering the French syllabus: Seconde, the Mathematics speciality in Premiere and Terminale, the Maths Expertes and Maths Complementaires options, the Physics-Chemistry speciality, plus a complete four hour mock Baccalaureate and a two hour mock Brevet.

Each set runs from the fundamentals to the real level of the examination, with step by step solutions. Everything reads directly in the browser, with no download, which works as well from Dubai as from Sao Paulo. It is written in French, which is the language of the examination.

See the corrected exercises

Paying from abroad

Payment should not be an obstacle when the family and the tutor are not in the same country. Two options, whichever the family prefers.

PayPal

From any country, in your own currency. The simplest option for most expatriate families.

Interac transfer

For families with a Canadian bank account. A receipt is available on request, and sessions are paid afterwards or in blocks.