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What do I enjoy most about tutoring? 😁
Having spent the past few years working as a classroom teacher in schools, the part I loved the most about the job was working directly with students. The best part was the relationships I build with my students and seeing them grow throughout the year.My Strengths as Tutor 💪
I always found that my greatest strengths were my ability to build a strong relationship with my students and differentiate my teaching techniques enough for their learning needs. Having spent a lot of my time teaching in Special Education, it was really important to maintain a positive relationship and firm expectations in the classroom so that my lessons could be run as smoothly and effectively as possible. This time also helped to build my skills at differentiating activities for my students to match their learning needs.Most important things I can do for a student 🏅
As an educator the most important thing you can provide for a student are the tools and strategies that can help them to learn. Sometimes students simply need some support consolidating the things they are learning, and as a tutor you can provide an avenue for students to take to decipher problems they're encountering in their work or a different perspective or strategy to approach a problem from. I think that the best thing a tutor can do for a student in be patient and empathetic towards them and guide them through any problems they're presenting to you.Tutoring students in 👦 👧
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About Taylor
Versatile Classroom Experience Across Primary Levels
Taylor brings four years of hands-on teaching experience, working with a wide range of primary and secondary students. He has excelled in both mainstream and special educational needs settings, regularly adapting lesson plans to suit varying abilities and learning styles. Taylor’s background includes stepping into classrooms at short notice and quickly building rapport with students, showcasing his flexibility and readiness to support learners in any situation.
Expertise in Differentiated Learning Strategies
Having planned and delivered lessons for students with intellectual disabilities and complex behaviours, Taylor is skilled at tailoring his approach to each child’s unique needs. He collaborates closely with other educators to analyse student progress data, adjusting his teaching methods for maximum impact. His commitment to differentiated instruction ensures that every student receives the targeted support they need to achieve success in maths and English.
Strong Relationship Builder With a Practical Approach
Known for his strong communication skills, Taylor connects easily with both students and parents. He thrives on creating positive, engaging classroom environments where children feel confident to participate. Drawing on leadership roles within multidisciplinary teams, he uses clear strategies for behaviour management and keeps families informed about progress—making him a reliable partner in your child’s academic journey.
Recent Tutoring Comments:
Zephyr is doing well with small addition/subtraction problems, and use of manipulatives like playdough, sand and blocks has helped her to solve these problems. ...
Zephyr is doing well with small addition/subtraction problems, and use of manipulatives like playdough, sand and blocks has helped her to solve these problems. She is getting closer to understanding place value, and continued work in this area will be extremely beneficial to her mathematics skills over the next school year. After a few activities on Mathletics relating to place value, Zephyr was able to complete one of them getting 10/10 questions correct.
Zephyr appears to be struggling to apply her knowledge of place value to new problems presented to her. She is capable of pulling numbers apart (e.g splitting 524 into '5 hundreds' '2 tens' '4 ones'), however when ordering numbers from smallest to largest was still ordering them incorrectly. Zephyr did do this successfully after a few tries, and continued use of strategies such as breaking numbers into smaller pieces will be beneficial.
Zephyr has very good literacy skills, confidently attempting to spell words and able to use those words in a sentence during a creative writing exercise. Zephyr is ...
Zephyr has very good literacy skills, confidently attempting to spell words and able to use those words in a sentence during a creative writing exercise. Zephyr is very creative! Zephyr used playdough to help her complete some addition and subtraction questions, which gave a good indication of the level that she is capable of working at and a great starting point for future sessions.
Zephyr will benefit from a focus on maths, specifically place value, as well as problem solving strategies.
Zephyr did a great job when exploring place value, and is showing signs of understanding the concept well. When presented with 4 3-digit numbers, Zephyr was able to ...
Zephyr did a great job when exploring place value, and is showing signs of understanding the concept well. When presented with 4 3-digit numbers, Zephyr was able to confidently order them from smallest to largest, using the place value of each digit in the numbers to explain her reasoning. Zephyr was very enthusiastic when attempting to use partitioning and renaming to complete addition problems on Mathletics.
Going forward, a focus on place value will help Zephyr to understand how numbers relate to one-another, and overall improve her maths skills.
Zephyr is a very competent reader, and comprehends what she has read very clearly. Zephyr looked for clues in the story both in the text and the pictures to justify ...
Zephyr is a very competent reader, and comprehends what she has read very clearly. Zephyr looked for clues in the story both in the text and the pictures to justify her answers to comprehension questions asked of her. Zephyr is quite good at sounding out words as she goes and did well in dictation, spelling words said aloud with accuracy.
Zephyr can sometimes get lost as she reads a text, accidently skipping a line while she reads. She already has strategies to help her with this issue, such as holding a piece of paper under the line she is reading, and will benefit from continuing to use those strategies while she reads.