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Silvan's tutors include a fully registered VIT teacher with decades of English and maths experience, multiple school and university medalists, seasoned VCE and Olympiad achievers, practising classroom teachers and pre-service educators, passionate peer mentors, STEM graduates from top universities, and subject specialists recognised for leadership, academic awards, and hands-on success inspiring K–12 students.

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Kate

English Tutor Mooroolbark, VIC
Being able to make a strong connection to their students and understand how they learn information and gain new skills. This is an essential requirement in order to provide the right support and comfort for those in need. I am an easy-going and patient individual that loves to learn and help others learn. I am a very like-able person that loves…
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Amy

English Tutor Kilsyth, VIC
Be persistent and encouraging, as well as being clear and concise. I believe that tutors should be patient and accepting. This will help both the tutor and the student. My strengths are in English. I am extremely attentive to detail, and am very good at explaining concepts. I am patient and kind so I love seeing people take their time to…
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Josh

English Tutor Wandin North, VIC
Helping people understand why learning is important to them. Kids can find it hard to see why what they're learning is important. I think a fundamental key is showing how the process of learning itself is the important aspect, rather than specifically the content. While the content is important to grasp, the process of regular work towards a goal,…
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Smitha

English Tutor Kilsyth, VIC
A tutor can help a student get more fluent, confident and clear about concepts and working. When they have someone who makes learning effective, fun and interactive it makes learning fun and worthwhile. I do believe in providing a lot of practice and exposure to many different ways of doing a problem and an english tutor has to be that someone who…
Jon
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Jon

English Tutor Kilsyth, VIC
Throughout my tertiary studies, I have found that the key to learning anything is finding the point of interest for a person and developing that area so that the subject as a whole becomes enjoyable. For any student, progress will naturally vary and giving them that support and encouragement to persevere and overcome hurdles in their learning is,…
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Anna

English Tutor The Basin, VIC
Learning is a key to understanding and appreciating the complex beauty of life - enriching the life of the individual. It is one of the key foundations an english tutor can establish for their students. A child who has failed to 'keep up' with learning, to understand a concept or course of study, will tend to drop further behind, and attempt…
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Daniel

English Tutor Kilsyth, VIC
Like I briefly mentioned earlier, I think it is important to look at being a mentor rather than a teacher. It is a far more personal and direct experience working with one or maybe a few students at a time rather than an entire classroom, so it is vital to establish actual relationships with your students and ensure that they can apply the work…
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Jessie

English Tutor Ferny Creek, VIC
Improving the confidence of the student is key. The student should evolve to have more trust in themselves and their abilities and be able to apply this. The most important thing I could do for the student is to help them achieve their own personal best and be motivated to achieve. I am a good listener. I apply this to pinpointing the key areas…

Local Reviews

Chelsea is very happy with Nathanael and feels comfortable with him. He is very a very polite and reliable young man.
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Inside SilvanTutoring Sessions

Content Covered

Year 10 student Codi focused on revising circular functions ahead of an upcoming exam, including applying sine and cosine rules.

With Year 11 student Ayelet, work centred on simplifying surds as well as operations involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of surds for deeper understanding.

Meanwhile, Year 12 student Erin practiced identifying stationary points and explored their application to context-based problems in calculus using graph sketches.

Recent Challenges

In Year 9 English, one student's writing often became overly wordy—"sometimes her language is a little too wordy which can result in the sentence losing some meaning and impact"—making it hard to communicate ideas clearly in essays.

In VCE Maths, another student showed a strong preference for one multiplication method and was hesitant to try others, limiting flexibility during problem-solving.

A Year 7 maths student sometimes relied on calculators instead of practicing pen-and-paper calculations, especially with times tables and surds. This led to slower progress when asked to work without aids during lessons or tests.

Recent Achievements

A tutor in Silvan noticed that Maya, after weeks of needing her notes for every division problem, managed to finish a set unaided of 10 questions in just 3.5 minutes without looking at her yellow book—she even set herself a goal to do it faster next week.

Meanwhile, Lizzie (Year 11) has gone from repeating back ideas to developing her own interpretations during text analysis, recently making creative links between real-world events and themes from her literature class.

In Year 10 maths, Ayelet now works through surd simplification steps clearly on paper and often chooses the correct trigonometric ratio independently.

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 Mt Evelyn Library—or at your child's school (with permission), like Silvan Primary School.