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Carbrook's tutors include a secondary school maths teacher with UK and international classroom expertise, an IB graduate with a 99.1 ATAR and Academic Excellence awards, a scholarship student ATAR 98.3 peer mentor, an award-winning biomedical scientist and university peer tutor, plus experienced mentors in psychology, science, languages, special needs support and youth coaching.

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Jessie

English Tutor Eagleby, QLD
I consider empathy, support, and patience to be core qualities tutors can offer students. With empathy, an english tutor can help students feel comfortable in being honest, distressed by external factors, and other obstacles they may have to overcome in their learning journey. Patience and support go hand-in-hand with one another as by showing…
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Amanda

English Tutor Redland Bay, QLD
To fill in the missing piece/s to the puzzle so that students can understand what is being taught and be able to add to that and continue to learn and achieve. To provide the basic building blocks or foundation so that students can continue to build on their learning on their own. Ultimately to give them the confidence that they have the ability…
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Bardia

English Tutor Eagleby, QLD
I believe an english tutor's duty is not to necessarily improve the intellectual capability of their client, but rather, guide them in a way that allows them to harness their own learning potential through customised, carefully tailored programs specific to the individual. Whilst this may not necessarily be viable for every circumstance, it is the…
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Steffanie

English Tutor Redland Bay, QLD
Ultimately help them understand the areas of study which are more difficult for them and in turn supplying them with the confidence to complete the subject at school knowing that they did the best they possibly could I am very patient and can establish many different ways to explain difficult terms or problems in order to make it understandable…
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Rebecca

English Tutor Redland Bay, QLD
Making sure that the student is understanding what the tutor is explaining and keeping the student motivated, as there isn't much use of a student being tutored if they cannot understand or if they are not motivated. I am able to explain things in a way that are easy to understand, I help the student stay out of frustration and help them approach…

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We are happy with Amber tutoring Cruz and he is learning new things.
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Year 4 student Ella revised **times tables up to x12** and practiced larger addition equations, focusing on accuracy and confidence.

For Year 10, Taylor tackled coordinate geometry skills such as **calculating distances with the distance formula** and determining gradients, along with sketching linear equations on a grid.

Meanwhile, Year 12 student Jakob worked through **annuities and loan repayments** using practice questions from General Maths resources, then applied least squares regression analysis to real data sets.

Recent Challenges

A Year 12 student working on annuities and loan repayments repeatedly made small errors in their calculations; as noted, "Jakob still made some small mistakes in his working," which meant time was spent fixing these rather than tackling new problems.

In Year 10, confusion arose when rearranging equations—sign changes would trip the student up, slowing progress through algebra topics.

Meanwhile, a Year 4 student continued to rely on counting with fingers for addition practice instead of building fluency; this slowed down her ability to keep pace during more complex subtraction work.

One high schooler hesitated to ask questions in class, leading to uncertainty when extracting equations from worded linear relations problems.

Recent Achievements

One Carbrook tutor noticed a big shift with a Year 10 student who, after needing step-by-step help last month, now works through practice exam questions almost entirely on his own—just checking his notes for trickier parts.

Another high schooler who used to guess at answers is now openly asking for clarification and then correcting her own mistakes during sessions, which she'd never done before.

Meanwhile, a younger primary student who always relied on counting fingers has started finishing double-digit addition problems much faster and rarely needs prompting to keep going.

Local Spots for Tutoring

If you'd prefer not to have lessons at home, tutoring can also take place at a local library—such as Beenleigh Library—or at your child's school (with permission), like Carbrook Animal Assisted Learning Centre.