Private Tutor Services

Personal Education Tutoring Services at students' homes and by email/Skype.

Maybe you are thinking about making use of a private tutor to ensure a pass grade or improve expected grades at exams. Have you used a private tutor before?

There is a page here (click) about using a private tutor to make sure that you get the best results for the student, and pages about improving exam grades, about the best ways to teach by use of real world data. It is essential to engage the student's interest by linking the subjects to their application in the real world, helping to put studies into a career context and therefore generate enthusiasm. As we all know, increased enthusiasm assists the learning process. After all, if there is little interest in a subject then it is difficult to maintin focus and absorb knowledge.

Some testimonials from students are on the private tutor testimonials page (click here), and my full private profile is available here (click).

Next Steps (click here)? Now is the time of year to start arranging extra assistance from a private tutor.

Tutoring Approach

My approach is relaxed (but with a focus on exam technique) and I believe that learning should be an enjoyable experience, as should teaching. My extensive commercial experience enables me to communicate the subjects I tutor with many examples of application in practice, from manufacturing to marketing. I aim to enable a student to achieve easy recall of the basic knowledge for the 'bread and butter' marks, removing pressure to enable them to concentrate on gaining the extra marks which require them to demonstrate their full understanding of the subject at their level.

To achieve this, I believe that personal interaction between student and tutor is essential (confidence building cannot be done remotely); therefore I do not offer remote tutoring via web, though I will accept work for review by email as part of a normal tutoring arrangement.

Sessions are a mix of explanation/exploration of key topics reinforcing weaker areas, oral testing of key basic knowledge, and working through past papers, with an emphasis on decomposing the question and squeezing the top marks out of the paper. This overlies a fundamental approach to engaging the student's enthusiasm for the subject, because that makes learning so much easier.

Why do Students Choose Me?

My real-world experience in the application of Business Studies, Maths, Physics and ICT gives me a wealth of stories and illustrations which provide a framework for learning and memory. My background includes variously: IT Consultant, Software Developer, Head of Marketing, Quality Director, Commercial Manager in a variety of industrial and commercial sectors. 

See what some of my students think - Testimonials.

Why Use a Private Tutor?

There is an article here about using a home tutor to improve exam grades, and use the best ways to teach, and to engage the student's interest by linking the subjects to their application in the real world.

Profile

For further information about my backgound, see Tutor Profile .

Next Steps?

If you wish to arrange an informal discussion or tutorial session, then please email me in the first instance, and then we can establish telephone contact and take it from there.

Don't leave it too late as my diary is filling rapidly for the run up to the next examinations!

Thank you for your interest.

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