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Copacabana's tutors include a seasoned school teacher and university lecturer with decades mentoring K–12 students—including gifted programs—plus a Master's-qualified special education teacher, an Honours university medallist in science, experienced HSC and music tutors, accomplished peer mentors, junior sports coaches, and high-achieving recent graduates recognised for leadership and academic excellence.

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Laura

English Tutor Copacabana, NSW
Offering them ways to easily comprehend subjects and topics, making subjects more enjoyable. I will try my very hardest to ensure my students feel that they are able to openly express their thoughts and to answer questions without the fear of judgement. I want my students to learn from their mistakes, and not be afraid to pick themselves back up…
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Jayden

English Tutor Copacabana, NSW
The most important things an english tutor can do for a student are track their learning progress, ensure that they stay motivated towards their academic goals and to make the tutoring fin and enjoyable. The most important things to become a tutor is: a friendly attitude, appropiate teaching techniques and confidence in yourself, which i believe…
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Maureen

English Tutor Copacabana, NSW
It is important to assist students self esteem and motivation through flexible learning outcomes and engaging lessons. It is also necessary to reflect on lessons and adjust them where necessary. Teaching needs to be relevant, engaging and significant.....and fun. My many years of experience assist me to tailor individual programs foccussing on…
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Stephen

English Tutor Avoca Beach, NSW
Personalise the experience. It is vital to get t know the student, their concerns, their best learning style. The pace and content of the sessions needs to be adapted to the student's ability to achieve confidence and competence. Deep experience and thorough up to date knowledge, empathy (I am a parent to Yr 11 & 12 boys, as well as a tutor),…
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Harrison

English Tutor Yattalunga, NSW
I think the most important thing an english tutor can do for a student is to make them feel proud and confident with themselves as well as being a supportive teacher. I know from experience that when you're struggling with a concept it is a very disheartening thing and can lead to self doubt and giving up. I think a tutor should help a student…
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Timothy

English Tutor Wamberal, NSW
To act as a mentor, providing a student encouragement and support when they are having difficulty and acknowledging and celebrating their achievements, as well as supporting the student to achieve their individual goals, to acknowledge the student's strengths, interests and passions and support students to engage with them. To assist a student…
Benjamin
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Benjamin

English Tutor Booker Bay, NSW
Implement creativity and a willingness to try is the most important skill an english tutor can pass on to their students. Once a student builds a willingness to try and a need to challenge themselves, they will be more likely to build good habits and routines around creating these pathways for themselves. I always ask myself 'how do students…
Oliver
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Oliver

English Tutor Avoca Beach, NSW
Ultimately, there are two things. Teaching a student to be curious, and teaching a student how to learn. Education systems are designed to filter all kids through a rigid, structured system, which, although brilliant for most, loses the spirit of why we learn. Because we are curious! We like to see how things work, to investigate our world and…
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Samantha

English Tutor Green Point, NSW
I think the most important thing is approaching learning with compassion and patience. It is really important to consider that not everyone learns best with the same teaching style, and can process information at different paces. I think it's important to understand each person's learning style; if they are not understanding what you are saying,…
Sam
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Sam

English Tutor Daleys Point, NSW
Provide support both academically and mentally. This can be done through practicing a topic of a subject, and also helping schedule their weeks, so they know they will still have social/leisure time, and maximize their grades and themselves. I am incredibly confident and happy to also learn new things. For example, if a student comes to me and…
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Carol

English Tutor Booker Bay, NSW
I believe a truly effective tutor can accurately pinpoint the source of a student's struggle with a particular topic, and propose the correct solution. For example, trouble with foundational concepts often stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of the basics, therefore it is important to readdress the theory portion of the topic and provide…
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Willow

English Tutor Booker Bay, NSW
I think the most important thing is taking the pressure off being “perfectâ€. There is no such thing as perfection and everyone reaches success differently. What works for one person may not work for another and in standardised exams, this often gets misconstrued, adding to the weight of being the perfect student. My patience and positive…
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Katrina

English Tutor Woy Woy, NSW
As an english tutor/educator the most important factor to foster with your student is that you are honest and patient. Each student develops at their own pace. My strengths include: *I have found that working with special needs students has helped me to become a more compassionate and patient educator. *My ability to review my own methods if…
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Angelina

English Tutor Woy Woy, NSW
Increase their confidence and mindset around what they are capable of by supporting and teaching as required. My calm and reassuring presence as well as my ability to motivate and adequately explain processes and information while giving…

Local Reviews

I'm so grateful to Chelsie, she is very competent and kind person. Highly recommended
Maya

Inside CopacabanaTutoring Sessions

Content Covered

Year 7 student Zac focused on fraction operations, including adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions, and practised simplifying mixed and improper fractions using worded sentence questions.

Year 8 student Lily worked through algebraic expansion and factorisation as well as more complex expressions involving both techniques.

Meanwhile, Year 5 student Olivia recapped money counting in NAPLAN-style questions and analysed the symmetries of shapes by counting angles and sides using visual aids.

Recent Challenges

A Year 8 student often forgets to do set homework and struggles to stay focused during lessons, as seen when "she was very reluctant to do work today" and didn't complete her assigned tasks—resulting in slow progress through content.

In Year 10, messy written work led to calculation errors, especially when columns weren't lined up for long division or graph plotting.

For a senior student preparing for HSC, frequent reliance on calculator answers without double-checking steps caused repeated mistakes; one tutor noted, "errors were being made when numbers were not properly lined up in columns," which cost valuable revision time.

Recent Achievements

A tutor in Copacabana noticed Zac, a high school student, shifting from hesitating during problem solving to confidently speaking up and tackling fraction questions that previously caused him trouble—he now remembers methods across lessons without prompting.

In another session, Olivia demonstrated new independence by bringing her own tricky homework questions and consistently writing out area formulas before solving complex shape problems; she used to skip this step and get stuck more often.

For a younger student, Lilly showed tangible progress by stopping her tutor from helping so she could solve percentage-to-fraction conversions on her own—a first for her.

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 Kincumber Library—or at your child's school (with permission), like Copacabana Public School.