Shun

I teach computer science at undergraduate and postgraduate level across three UK higher education providers, including UCL and University of Essex Online. I also have rich IT industry experience before moving into teaching. That combination gives me a habit of explaining technical ideas from first principles rather than assuming prior knowledge, something I do weekly with students arriving at university with no programming background alongside those with several years` coding experience. I have some Maths teaching experience with KS2 and KS3 age groups specifically, and I can apply my adult and young-adult teaching methods (breaking problems into small testable steps, using visual and interactive tools, checking understanding before moving on) to a younger audience. I hold an Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) and am a member of the British Computer Society (MBCS).

Willing to travel: 15 miles

Experience: I currently teach programming, algorithms and data structures to university students, several of whom start the term unable to write a single line of code. My job is to find where their understanding breaks down and rebuild from there, not to repeat the explanation louder. I use short, concrete examples rather than abstract definitions. When I taught some difficult concepts, I could drop the textbook explanation and had them trace through real-life examples to understand them more easily. I expect KS2 and KS3 students to need the same treatment: fewer definitions, more things they can touch, draw or step through by hand, and constant checking that a concept has actually landed before I move to the next one.

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