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What to expect
Any good teacher knows there's no such thing as 'one size fits all' method of teaching, while teachers will have their personal preferences, a good lesson should be tailored to the content and student(s) being taught and as such the way one approaches a GCSE Physics topic such as kinetic energy will be very different to how one approaches A-level enzyme kinematics.
Our teaching does however stick to the few key principles below. gcse tutor science tutor one to one tutor
1. Lessons must have a question as an objective
Without an objective a lesson may drift off course, it quickly becomes impossible to measure the success of a lesson when it has not had a clear focus, both teacher and student need to know at the beginning of the lesson what is the key question they are trying to answer in order to understand whether the lesson has been successful!
2. Lessons must both review and build
It's much easier to remember and understand new ideas when you approach them as a story. Stories have a beginning, middle and end and so does your understanding of a concept; however it becomes impossible to understand a whole story if you've forgotten or misunderstood the previous page; as teachers we must constantly review what came before in order to build deeper understanding and to ultimately have access to this knowledge through long-term memory when exam time comes.
3. Lessons must be a continual dialogue
Thorough understanding is built actively not passively and tuition allows far greater scope for active dialogue with the teacher than any secondary school classroom. Our lessons progress through dialogue with the student and will alter course when it is clear a topic needs further explanation. Where students may become lost in a school setting as a teacher follows a fixed plan from beginning to conclusion, tuition provides the flexibility to allow the tutor to know the student's live understanding through continual dialogue and to alter the plan accordingly.
4. Personalised learning
We take the time to discuss and to get to know how best our new students learn in order to develop schemes of work and lessons to help them reach their goals, we pace the lessons accordingly and avoid the lazy 'death by powerpoint' approach which is all too prevalent in today's higher education settings. In order to truly achieve all the above the teacher must of course have a detailed understanding of the content being taught, only a thorough understanding will allow the teacher to approach the topics from multiple perspectives as is required by different students, We believe the academic qualifications of the teacher are key to ascertaining their foundational knowledge.
5. Resources used
All students will be added to a google classroom account where notes, past exam papers, mark schemes (where required), homework tasks and videos are shared.
Lessons are set using google classroom and run through 'google meet', although 'zoom' or 'teams' may be used as required.
We can advise students which websites/textbooks should be used for additional support and can provide additional resources of his own where/when required. We have subscriptions to all the major sites. We also have significant experience preparing UCAS applications.
Please let me know in advance which exam-board is to be covered.