Taro

I’m a second year undergraduate at Oxford University studying Classics.

I was born and raised in the UK and went to boarding school in north-west London. In a way that is where my tutoring career began. Lots of people knocked on my door in the evenings asking for help with their homework.

The teaching style I’ve developed through my experience is professional but informal and gentle. To “educate” comes from the Latin “educare” which technically means to “lead out”. In a way this neatly reflects my teaching style which has become somewhat Socratic. I prefer, unless it becomes necessary otherwise, to prompt my tutee into solving their own problem, rather than just explain the solution at them. I believe “guiding” is a far more effective way to teach than “telling”, especially in revision contexts where the emphasis is on personal consolidation of material they have (hopefully) already been “told”.

Hopefully this style makes the lesson engaging too. I prefer the dynamic of my lessons to be more like that of older student to younger student, rather than strictly teacher to pupil. This I think is much more conducive in establishing a personal connection with my student, which I find is one of the most important elements of a successful tutee-tutor partnership and is what makes this kind of one and one service special and uniquely valuable.

Availability: Available for tutoring in person most of the day during University of Oxford vacation periods. Only available for Skype tutoring during term time.

Willing to travel: 10 miles

Experience: I teach weekly at a local secondary school in Oxford as part of a charity.
Over the summer I taught English for 2 weeks with a charity in Japan.
I have assisted as a classroom helper for a couple weeks at my old primary school.
I am a registered tutor at xxx.
I have tutored pupils one on one from the ages 6-18 (and also 1 adult pupil).