Kathryn Mcgregor

In my online tuition sessions I am happy for my students to take the lead and decide topics or questions they want to work on but if they are unsure, I always have ideas of what we can do. I have worked as a maths lecturer in colleges for more than 20 years so I have a wealth of excellent resources to chose from. I can always sense if learners are finding questions too easy or too hard, which helps me to pitch the tuition at the best level to enable them to make progress. I give my learners constant feedback and reassurance whatever we are doing as building confidence is a huge part of the learning process with maths.

My lessons are usually an hour long, we use Zoom or Microsoft Teams but I am happy to use any other platform. Sometimes my students email me questions they want to work on in advance, or send photos of questions they are having trouble with. If the learner has the technology to do so, we may use collaborative whiteboards, otherwise I share my screen and so that we can build up solutions to questions together through discussion. As learning maths is all about doing maths, my learners are always working on tasks, which makes the time pass quickly.