Ben Williams

I will structure every session in a way that seems simple to most students. If they can understand a problem simply, that's when they can start to understand it on a more complex level. I have had experience tutoring a GCSE student and my experience from that was to break each and every problem down to its most fundamental level, right down to highlighting key words from the question and understanding what form the answer will be, whether it would be a number or a word or the name of somebody.

Having the right equipment is also one of the most useful parts of tutoring. If it would be an in person meeting, I would have my favourite object: the whiteboard. The whiteboard is useful in so many ways: it's easy to use, allows drawings to be rubbed out more easily, allows the use of colourful pens which makes the problem more visual and is easily portable.

In terms of content, I will of course examine the GCSE syllabus again, but I will listen as to which topics the students are struggling with the most and will structure the sessions around that.