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Maths
GCSE or Standards - £20.00p.h.
A-Level or Highers - £30.00p.h.

Physics
GCSE or Standards - £20.00p.h.
A-Level or Highers - £30.00p.h.

Combined Science
GCSE or Standards - £20.00p.h.

Personal Description: I've always enjoyed education, and learning and articulating what I have been taught is something at which I am particularly good. Being challenged and stretched to my full ability has always been very important to me, and this is well reflected in the subjects that I chose for A Level, and ultimately what I opted for my degree and subsequent master's degree.

I'm approachable and friendly person, and understand that for a tutor-student relationship to be successful a good rapport must be initially made on a personable basis. My best asset is probably my patience, which I believe, along with my hard-working ethic, is what has allowed me to excel academically.

Most of my spare time is spent catching up with friends and family, who are spread widely over the country, and also over the world. I'm also an aviation enthusiast, and am currently training for my commercial pilot's license, which I hope to achieve in the next few years. But when I'm not with friends or flying a plane, I like to keep fit by rock-climbing or playing tennis and badminton.

Tutoring Experience: Prior to becoming a tutor, I'd participated in several one-on-one teaching schemes, both in school and at university. Whilst at school I took part in a 'paired reading' programme set-up by the school, in which older pupils were allocated younger pupils with learning difficulties, and would put effort into developing essential learning skills. I would spend an hour each morning with my pupil, helping him to develop his reading and writing skills.

At university I was one of the students who helped out at a discussion/homework group, designed to help younger students with any problems that they had with concepts discussed in their lectures or homework problems that had been set. The other participants and I would discuss the problems with the students, and encourage them to arrange their thoughts so that they could set about solving the problem by themselves.

Tutoring Approach: I believe that a tutoring programme should be designed for each specific student, and in that sense it should be a student-led approach. I would hope to discuss the student's strengths and weaknesses with them and also their parents to get a picture of how they would learn best, and then tailor the sessions accordingly, whether that would be to support a less confident student, or to stretch a more able student to reach their full potential. This flexible approach is essential, since everybody will have a different learning style as well as different academic strengths, and adapting to suit each student will allow them to achieve exactly what they want from the learning experience.

Qualifications:

• GCSE (2000) : 8 A*s, 2 As
• A Level (2002) : Chemistry (A), French (A), Maths (A), Physics (A)
• University - University College London (2006) : MSci Hons, Physics with Space Science. Grade - 1st

Availability: Weekends / Weekdays (evenings)
References Available: Yes
CRB Check: Yes