I would like to start lessons with finding out the child’s understanding in order to work on ideas/work that they find more challenging. Starting with a starter activity in order to stimulate their learning. Then we would talk about the subject content and what they’re struggling with and complete tasks that will help with their understanding. At the end I might give them some work that is more relaxed but also tests and furthers their knowledge. We would go over this work the next time we meet.

I would like the session to be centred around the child as well as covering the content. Of course every child learns differently and this would be taken into account based on individual needs. From personal experience I found that completing past exam questions are a great way to learn and store information in the long-term memory. This would be something that I would encourage in my lessons. However more creative tasks such as matching definitions and flash cards are also useful, especially in a subject like Biology.

My overall aim is to help the child feel confident in what they’re learning and for them to be able to ask me questions that they may not want to do in the classroom/may have missed in lessons.