I am a final year Mechanical Engineering student that has been tutoring A Level and GCSE students for nearly 5 years. I have experience both as an individual tutor and with working for tutoring academies, teaching Maths, Sciences and English to small groups and on a 1 to 1 basis. Teaching is something I genuinely love, which allows me to keep my standard of teaching high and I will go above and beyond to ensure that my students succeed.

My approach to tutoring is to ask what the student would like to learn or improve on for that day or over a certain block of sessions and then create a lesson plan based off that. I keep my lessons laid back and aim to establish a rapport with my students in order for them to be comfortable around me so that they may discuss openly with me what they are struggling with. This, alongside establishing a timeline with my student, allows me to develop a long-term plan that we will implement to achieve the student’s wider goal, while also incorporating weekly progress checks to ensure that they are on track.

Furthermore, I have also learnt to adapt my style to each subject that I am teaching. English lessons are more discussion based and involve encouraging the student to offer a unique interpretation of a text and to develop their own analysis techniques as well as style of writing. While teaching Mathematics and Sciences however, I focus on exam technique and covering the content of topics that students are struggling with. Moreover, I place a great emphasis on attempting past paper questions throughout the session and especially at the end as it acts as a good progress indicator and also allows me to support the students in their approach to exam questions. Furthermore, I encourage my students to openly ask questions -silly or otherwise- and I'm happy to go over content as many times as needed so that the subject matter may make sense. It is pivotal to me that my students understand why they are using the techniques that they are being taught so that they may implement them themselves in an exam. I'm happy to go over content as many times as needed in order for my students to understand. It’s not sufficient for them to simply memorise content but to be able to apply it as well.

Standard lessons usually take place over an hour, but I will gladly go over this time limit if required and longer sessions can be requested. My lessons are open to everyone, and I will happily take on anyone of any age and ability so long as they are willing to learn