Matt Sharpe

The first lesson, free of charge, will be an introduction talking with the student and parents in order to understand their aims and expecations of the tutoring process and to assess the best types of learning. I believe that listening is a key skill in teaching, as there is no single teaching method that works for every student – these need to be adapted to specifically help certain individuals who learn in different ways. For example, I personally learn and retain information through diagram drawing with repetition, where others may benefit from mind maps or bullet-point sentences. Through the last seven months of tutoring a GCSE student, I have adapted the way in which I teach from a lecturing style to helping the student produce ‘key-cards’ for revision once the learning is understood. I tailor my teaching to the way different students learn as it is frustrating for them to struggle to understand concepts which may be better taught in different ways.