I like to talk through questions with my students, to really understand what level of understanding they have. I prefer a conversational teaching method, to ensure everything is clear. I found this worked well for me during my time as a tutor for Explore Learning. It really helped my students and I to build a trusting environment, and this helped create a positive learning environment for my students. This really helped their understanding, as they felt more comfortable asking questions and I understood their concerns more, and was more able to track ongoing development.

My lessons would be from around 45 minutes to an hour and a half, as any less than this can be unproductive and any more than that can be overly taxing and makes it hard to concentrate. I would be happy to look over one or two pieces of work in between lessons, but I wouldn’t recommend this for younger children.

I am confident teaching up to a National 5 level, but any text based work would need prior informing so that I can be best prepared. I can help with essay writing, and checking over essays, but nothing in depth for folio pieces being submitted to the SQA.

I’m happy to tailor the lesson to what you’re looking for, and so I don’t have a set plan for each and every lesson because tutoring has to be adaptive. Please let me know if you would like to have a discussion about what you want, what you need and what wouldn’t be helpful to you.