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Payneham South's tutors include an 11-year school maths teaching veteran with dual master's degrees, a university mathematics lecturer, a secondary maths teacher and home tutor with four years' classroom experience, a Dux and ATAR 98.45 scorer, science medalists, experienced K–12 English and STEM mentors, Olympiad participants, and passionate music and chess instructors.

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Samara

English Tutor Adelaide, SA
The most important is to be there and present when students are struggling. To be observe the weaknesses of each students and provide ways of improvement. Be compassionate and patient, ask students if they have understood that particular concept. I'm good listener, ensuring that students are comfortable to tell me when they are unaware of certain…
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Maitreyee

English Tutor Adelaide, SA
The most important thing a tutor can do for a student is to listen to them and notice. Students pay more attention and are willing to learn when they feel that their opinions are heard and acknowledged. I am an extremely patient person. I can work with each student as an individual and let them grow and work at their own pace. I am also an…
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Vatsal
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Vatsal

English Tutor Adelaide, SA
From personal experience, I have had a few unfair and unsatisfactory experiences with tutors throughout my schooling journey. As a result, I have learnt from those experiences and structured my services in regards to having the student as the main focus. As a tutor, the most important thing I can do is explain and walk a student through unfamiliar…
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Himal

English Tutor Adelaide, SA
A tutor can tailor instruction to meet the specific needs, learning style, and pace of the student. Moreover, students can help students understand complex concepts by providing clear explanations, examples, and demonstrations. Additionally, a tutor can assess the student's strengths and weaknesses in a subject and use this assessment to create…
Navin
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Navin

English Tutor Enfield, SA
The most important thing as a tutor, I suppose that tutor has to build the confidence in the students and improving the studying skills. Which means that student should feel that their abilities are improving and who trust their instincts are perform better on exams and assignments. I have patience which I can understand the backgrounds of myriad…
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Priyanka

English Tutor Prospect, SA
a tutor first needs to understand the capability of the student considering all the strengths and weakness and work on it. Only just transforming knowledge will not help the child grow but instead develop a liking for that particular subject will make that child understand it more easily. Temporary teaching does't work in this teaching field.…
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Abhinandan

English Tutor Adelaide, SA
A tutor can be a guiding light for students. Each student has their own way of absorbing the information that they are taught. This might not always be available to students in a large classroom setting. A good tutor recognizes the strengths and weaknesses of the students and guides them accordingly. I spent most of my adult life abroad as a…
Naomi
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Naomi

English Tutor Adelaide, SA
To me, the most important thing a tutor can do is to foster a supportive and positive learning environment. This is because it is important to create a safe and encouraging space where students feel comfortable asking questions, making mistakes and improvements. It is also important for the tutor to tailor the teaching approach to each individual…
Liu
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Liu

English Tutor Adelaide, SA
I think the most important things as a tutor are designing a personal learning plan for each student; patient to everyone who has difficulties in learning; willing to share my own experience to help them to build self-confidence; treating students as individuals and helping each to achieve their full potential. My strength is that I can imply…
Nino
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Nino

English Tutor Clearview, SA
The tutor's objective is not simply to relay information to a student in a bland or dry manner, but rather to establish a solid foundation and understanding for the students - to devise a teaching method that works best. The objective is for the student to learn in the most efficient and enjoyable manner. I am a University lecturer and a senior…
Nagadevi Nimeesha
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Nagadevi Nimeesha

English Tutor Northfield, SA
A tutor should be able to communicate clearly with a student. It is important for a tutor to be patient with a student as different students learn at different paces. A tutor should be able understand the learning style of a student and have the ability to explain a concept in multiple ways to ensure that the student is confident with a concept.…
Nicholas
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Nicholas

English Tutor Unley, SA
To get on the student level and explain things in depth so they can understand what they are working on. I am very patient and explain things very…
Timothy
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Timothy

English Tutor Myrtle Bank, SA
The goal of tutoring should be to empower students and thus the primary focus of tuition should be to develop confidence and independence rather than reliance. For this reason, I believe the most important component of tutoring is not working through content, but reflecting and future planning to ensure the student believes they have the skills…
Tina Chenxi
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Tina Chenxi

English Tutor Myrtle Bank, SA
1. The most important thing a tutor can do for a student is help them become more confident with themselves about their ability to achieve the grade they want in the subject they want. As a wise person once said, "if you believe, you're already half way there." As a tutor I want to be able to help my students believe in themselves so they realise…
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Bethany

English Tutor Malvern, SA
- be willing to let them lay out their own ideas, plans, or problems before jumping in. - help them find what interests them and motivates them in a given subject - help them understand exactly what assignments require of them, so they know what they're working towards. - help them get to the bottom of whatever difficulties they face in…
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Vishwa

English Tutor Holden Hill, SA
Make the student feel comfortable to ask questions and understand the learning style of each student to personalise the learning experience and manage the difficulty curve in the content. Patience and clear explanation and using real world examples to convey the message. Friendliness to make the student comfortable to and ask questions and engage…
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Shagun

English Tutor Enfield, 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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Lavinia

English Tutor Holden Hill, 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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Jacqueline

English Tutor Highgate, SA
As a tutor, you can help a student realise their potential. It is so important for students to become confident in their abilities. I believe tutoring can assist in this and allow students to perform to the best ability. I am a very communicative and patient person. If the student does not understand something, I will always try my best to explain…
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Andres

English Tutor Highbury, SA
Something that sets me apart from many other tutors is that I’m very relatable, something which I think is very important to a student. Personally, I’ve known in the past what it’s like to sometimes struggle academically, however, experience has shown me that part of it what it takes to succeed is a great work ethic and an awesome mentor.…
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Alice

English Tutor Athelstone, SA
A tutor's role is to support and encourage students and help students to reach their goals. It is important to be familiar with the material taught and to know each student's learning goals and learning style. I am very patient with my students. Also, I am able to give clear explanations. I prepare my lessons carefully and am familiar with…
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Yushita

English Tutor Blair Athol, SA
Ro make them underatand and learn new things in every possible manner and being friemdly with them. Clamness Kind patience helpful intellectual…
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Shiphrah

English Tutor Highbury, SA
I believe that getting high grades in school is not the most important goal for my student (although this is something we work towards), but rather what is most important for me as a tutor is to see them learn, progress and improve each time. I want to teach them the value of hard work while building up their confidence and motivation to tackle…

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Inside Payneham SouthTutoring Sessions

Content Covered

Year 6 student Pranavi worked on multiplying and dividing decimals by 10, 100, and 1000 as well as solving worded questions involving fractions and reviewing area and perimeter of quadrilaterals with decimals.

In Year 8, Milly tackled converting between fractions, decimals, and percentages along with practising division and order of operations.

Meanwhile, Year 10 student Harrison focused on solving quadratic equations using the null factor law in preparation for upcoming assessments.

Recent Challenges

A Year 9 student sometimes avoided writing out steps when working with algebraic expressions, which led to confusion about signs and coefficients—"she wrote 3y as 3 + y," a tutor noted, causing calculation errors.

In Year 7, one student's maths book showed layout issues: answers were jumbled and place value columns not lined up during grid multiplication, making it hard to spot mistakes until much later.

Meanwhile, a primary student hesitated to answer worded questions in English, often skipping them or providing only brief responses; this meant missed opportunities for feedback and growth in comprehension skills.

Recent Achievements

One Payneham South tutor noticed Milly now self-corrects her mistakes when working with algebraic expressions—last week, she spotted and fixed an error without prompting, something she hesitated to do before.

In a recent high school maths session, Harrison started showing all his steps for trigonometry problems after previously skipping working out; he even remembered the equations for sine and cosine with less guidance than usual.

Meanwhile, in primary English, Naba has begun tracing numbers 2–4 and 6–9 independently instead of waiting for direction—a real change from earlier lessons where she needed step-by-step help.

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 Payneham Library—or at your child's school (with permission), like St Joseph's School.