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Tutors in Surrey Downs include a 22-year veteran special education teacher and NAPLAN marker, an ATAR 98.50 Dux with multiple subject merits and coaching experience, peer mentors who founded student leadership networks, postgraduate education students, award-winning maths and science graduates, and seasoned K–12 tutors with backgrounds in both classroom teaching and academic competition success.

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Lavinia

English Tutor Valley View, SA
Give moral support and guidance. As a tutor, I don't give answers or solve the student's work, I want them to be able to solve it themselves and use their critical thinking skills with their knowledge of subject content. Subjects can be tough, as a tutor, I need to find ways to convey the same subject in an easier, convenient way to understand it.…
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Duyen

English Tutor Ingle Farm, SA
- Students get inspired to truly love learning, become lifelong learners and gradually develop their autonomy in whatever they do later on in life. - Help students develop their confidence in their capacity and help them reach their full potential. - Be patient, calm and flexible to bring the best to students. - Have a sense of humor - Love…
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Sakshi
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Sakshi

English Tutor Ingle Farm, SA
The most important things that a tutor can do for a student is to: 1) Build strong, personal relationships with their students: a tutor should personalize the learning, make learning more interesting for the student, and teach to the student's strengths while minimizing their weaknesses. 2) Focus on goal setting, and creating benchmarks. For…
Radia Shams
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Radia Shams

English Tutor Valley View, SA
A tutor has to be patient and welcoming for their students. The reason these students come for tutoring is because they face difficulty keeping up with school. So they should be given the space to understand at their own pace, in their own method and a teacher needs to recognize that. We need to recognize the method which we choose to teach a…
Shradha
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Shradha

English Tutor Ingle Farm, SA
Being more approachable and trying to match their level of understanding to find a better approach for studying is important. Every person is different and so is their understanding and learning level. Being able to match that level and teach them is the job of a tutor. I can be a good listener and am able to identify problems of students as I…
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Gurmit

English Tutor Salisbury Park, SA
Realisation of inner self Patience Leadership Depth knowledge of the…
Ashly
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Ashly

English Tutor Valley View, SA
I believe that in order for anyone to understand the material being taught - the tutor must begin with the fundamentals and basics; breaking down the information and then ensuring the student is able to explain it back is what I believe works best. This requires patience, which I believe is an essential quality a tutor must maintain in order for…
Nour
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Nour

English Tutor Athelstone, SA
A tutor should make learning feel safe, achievable and enjoyable. The most important things are to build confidence, personalise the approach, set clear goals, and teach step-by-step strategies that students can use independently. Encouragement, consistency and strong communication with families are also essential for meaningful progress. My…
Baani
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Baani

English Tutor Gilles Plains, SA
A tutor must treat each student as unique and motivate them to learn in a manner that they are most likely to succeed in. A tutoring lesson should give a student the confidence to apply a concept based on their understanding of it. -Patience -Prior experience -Communication skills -Willingness to learn -Fluency in…
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Thanh Giang

English Tutor Athelstone, SA
I realize tutoring is not just about being a private teacher who delivers knowledge outside of school. It is also about being a mentor, a facilitator, a friend who can help learners grow and develop good habits in order to have the best performance in learning. Besides, the tutor is the one who understand the student' strengths and weaknesses in…
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Nividha

English Tutor Ingle Farm, SA
I can make their every doubt clear and I think making the basics and concepts clear, I can be very helpful to them. In India also, students use to come to me anytime for discussing their personal and academic problems. Being patient is my biggest strength. Apart from that, I am determined, helpful, kind and passionate. I am ambitious about being…
Samuel
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Samuel

English Tutor Hillbank, SA
I think that a tutor must be patient and remain composed with each student. A tutor is meant to be that person whose teaching is tailored, so it requires an individualized approach, picked up and constantly adjusted as needs change and develop. I have (as told to me by all my ever-suffering associates) a 'wild' vocabulary, and for English…
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Dominic

English Tutor Gilles Plains, SA
Give them confidence first ! Support basics from which all other things can be learned. Personalise studies according to their needs whilst not losing sight of what they need to achieve as learning outcomes. Patience, kindness, trying many approaches and an understanding of spectrum and children with learning difficulties. Knowing that everyone is…
Jenitha
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Jenitha

English Tutor Salisbury, SA
Making student to overcome their weakness. Helping students to move forward with their skills which is truly fulfilling. Building confidence within students. Major role is to teach students how to learn and build self confidence. Always show them the patience when any doubts are raised. Always motivate them to reach their goal. * Making…
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Shagun

English Tutor Pooraka, SA
Primarily, a tutor needs to be a good listener. Listen the problems of an individual carefully and provide the solution. Tutor can be a mentor not only of the academic but can be a mentor of other emotional and mental problems. Patience is the baby step to become an effective tutor. Some children might need patience levels that may put me through…
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Yas

English Tutor Oakden, SA
I strongly believe in the idea behind the saying, teach a person how to fish, and you feed them for a lifetime. A tutor's role extends beyond just providing answers; it's about equipping students with problem-solving skills that they can apply across different subjects and real-world situations. My engineering degree has taught me how to break…
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George

English Tutor Oakden, SA
-Listen to their confusions -Constantly provide encouragement -Make links between similar concepts -Be patient and never judge -Remind them of the progress they've made -Show them the real-life implication of some concepts to help them develop interest I take pride in working as hard as I can to accomplish my goals, including helping others.…
Lena
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Lena

English Tutor Paradise, SA
- Be patient - Stay kind/considerate - Adapt to different methods of teaching as not every student can learn the same way - Listen to what they find difficult and help them accordingly My strengths as a tutor come from the experiences I've gathered throughout my academic life. I have knowledge in various areas from the subjects I have learnt…
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Aekam

English Tutor Mawson Lakes, SA
Understand their aim, goal, personality alongside their needs/wants. I am Very easy going, patient, understanding, and I like to make sure each problem is solved through proper steps, with a healthy amount of questioning and confirming of the students…
Prajwal
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Prajwal

English Tutor Paradise, SA
The important thing that a tutor can give a student is time and attention which he might not get in classroom of students. Make the student feel the subject is not difficult by explaining concepts step wise. The tutor can also build self-confidence and problem-solving skills by making him approach the issue first and then guide the correct…
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usman

English Tutor Mawson Lakes, SA
A tutor's best gift to a student is to prepare him for self study and be useful with the time. Also that respect everyone and constant learning and improvement is the key I can relate to most students and i can help them by being their friend and also i tend to make my students excel in studies as well as their lives in…
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Madison

English Tutor Mawson Lakes, SA
I believe that tutoring is extremely important and can give students help in classes they may be struggling in or provide them a way to get ahead in their classes. Learning is incredibly important and tutoring can provide students with the knowledge they need to thrive. I am currently studying for a bachelor of science and am incredibly passionate…
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Darika

English Tutor Oakden, SA
Reduce the difficulties a student face when leaning a particular subject and enhance the learning outcomes in terms of grades and skills. Make the student comfortable with subject matters. I have adequate qualifications and experience to teach a student. I believe that I have the ability to guide a student to perform well in his/her studies. I am…

Local Reviews

Tutoring is going very well. Alicia is great with Lucy a and we are very happy with how Lucy is feeling towards her maths work.
Sara, Golden Grove

Inside Surrey DownsTutoring Sessions

Content Covered

Year 5 student Jack focused on fraction operations—multiplying, dividing, adding and subtracting fractions—as well as factorising basic algebraic expressions.

Year 9 student Olivia practised applying the area of a triangle formula to worded problems and built confidence using function notation, linking both to her physics formulas for an upcoming test.

Meanwhile, Year 10 student Emily worked through transformations of functions and received guidance with her investigation task by breaking down each step visually.

Recent Challenges

A Year 9 student often second-guessed her answers and hesitated to ask for clarification in algebra, which led to avoidable confusion—"she still second guesses herself occasionally," one tutor noted.

In Year 11 Biology, a student showed reluctance to voice questions about feedback loops, missing key points during discussions.

For a Year 7 maths task on linear patterns, the layout of working was messy and made errors harder to spot; "the way he sets out his working is a little hard to follow."

Meanwhile, a primary student avoided tackling nonstandard word problems, skipping those that felt too challenging.

Recent Achievements

One Surrey Downs tutor noted a Year 10 student who used to second-guess her answers is now trusting her instincts and checking her work more often, even taking the initiative to complete extra homework outside school.

Another high schooler, initially shy in physics sessions, started asking questions independently and celebrated a strong test result that really boosted her motivation.

Meanwhile, a Year 4 student who was hesitant about reading aloud now self-corrects spelling mistakes and read an entire chapter of The Faraway Tree during their session without prompting.

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 City of Tea Tree Gully Library—or at your child's school (with permission), like Surrey Downs Primary School.