Becky

I am a confident and experienced teacher with a kind attitude and excellent communication and interpersonal skills. I prefer working creatively through non- traditional routes into learning, providing insight into wellbeing and creating more long-lasting connections to learning. I have a positive attitude to work (and life), I’m well organised, polite, and well-presented, which I try to pass onto my students. A lot
of my experience is within SEN/ SEMH settings alongside substantial time spent in mainstream primary and secondary settings inclusive of exam preparation. I have also worked as a private tutor since 2022 focussing on English language and exam preparation. My lessons are relaxed, and engaging allowing students to become self sufficient and work out their own ways of understanding mathematics with me guiding them to build these skills. We will use varying techniques, manipulatives and draw parallels to real life to help aid understanding

My lesson style varies and will always adapt from student to student dependent on what their goals are.

I tend to offer three main structure pathways:

-A relaxed format
A structure can work where lessons can take a more relaxed structure, looking at specific things like Homework, Past paper questions and change week to week depending on what is currently being learnt at school.

-A chronological format
I may follow a curriculum guide, working our way through various levels, recapping and building on pre-existing knowledge. Working year by year, level by level, topic by topic. Although a more chronological approach it really allows a gradual learning curve and strengthening both weakness and improving on strengths within Maths.

-A bespoke/ gaps in learning format
Another route is where a pre- knowledge test is taken initially (formal or informal). This will help me to gage where the learner is currently at and to identify any gaps in learning. I will then form a tailored curriculum plan to follow with the student, focussing on where we need to fill the gaps of learning and draw parallels with their previous understanding. We often find that students are really strong in some areas of math such as Geometry/ Arithmetic but may struggle with things such as Algebra, functions or a smaller segment within those subjects such as geometric equations etc. This method of learning allows us to really hone in on building those skills.

In our lessons we can use. mixture of the three formats but I've listed them above to act as a general guide for how my lessons might look.