Sarah

I have been teaching and tutoring for 31 years. I love teaching, especially tutoring one to one or small groups, where you can tailor the lessons to the individual, making the learning experience personal and more fun.
My degree is in Related Arts and music from Chichester University, and I have TEFL qualification with TEFL England.

Availability: Available for home tutoring in the day and evenings.
Available to tutor online via Zoom. and I charge 40% less for online sessions.

Willing to travel: 10 miles

Experience: I have been tutoring and teaching in Northampton for 31 years. Since 2014 I have concentrated on tutoring in a self-employed capacity and through agency work with Teaching Personnel.
I love my work and find I have a good understanding when students find English and maths difficult, as I found school a struggle and scraped through exams to achieve a university placement. It was only when I went to university that I found out that I was not as stupid as I had been led to believe, and that was down to the books I devoured. I cannot advocate reading enough. It teaches grammar, vocabulary and how to construct sentences subliminally. In my private tuition sessions, I have a book on the go with every tutee. We discuss what we have read but do not do any work on the book as I do not want to spoil the story and the imagery with dull but necessary exercises like comprehension. I save that task for short texts.
It is the same with maths which I thought was a foreign language earlier in my life. I love trying to help students overcome difficulties in remembering formulas, understanding the question and learning their tables. I get the students to keep a notebook to write down all the formulas and processes. Every student I have taught over the past eight years has passed GCSE maths.
Games are also brilliant, and like reading one is learning subliminally. Articulate is one of my favourite games and I use this in both subjects. I also use memory games with pairs of synonyms, antonyms and such like and these are helpful when tutoring ESL and KS2 students. Afterall, learning is supposed to be fun.
I also like to find out how the student learns and whether they are a visual, kinaesthetic or auditory learner. Tutoring is very much a two-way learning experience, and I am always looking at ways to improve my delivery and understanding of how people learn.