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West Hobart's tutors include a university lecturer and Assistant Professor with 10+ years' teaching experience, a primary school teacher trained in the UK and Qatar, PhD and Honours graduates in science and biochemistry, an ATAR 99.70 Sydney Girls High alumna, Olympiad awardees, seasoned K–12 English and maths specialists, and accomplished peer mentors and youth leaders.

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Emily

English Tutor West Hobart, TAS
I think a successful tutor encourages a love of learning and can motivate a student to continue beyond initial challenges. I can explain things clearly. I also believe I am good at setting people at ease - I'm approachable, and I know what it's like to be the shy…
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Henrietta

English Tutor Bonnet Hill, TAS
Instilling students with a positive mindset towards and passion for learning is critical to ensure they are engaged and willing to learn. I always encourage students and build their confidence, because a strong and flexible mindset is so important and can be carried throughout the pupil's education. During lessons, I am actively paying attention…
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Dheveena

English Tutor Hobart, TAS
I believe the most important things an english tutor can do for a student are to create a safe and encouraging learning environment, build the student’s confidence, and help them develop independent learning skills. Beyond explaining content, a tutor should listen carefully, be patient, and adapt their teaching to the student’s needs. By doing…
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Marcelle

English Tutor Sandy Bay, TAS
Being an english tutor requires a respected relationship between the student and tutor. Being able to understand where their issues with their education stem from enables a better approach to developing their knowledge. By being both friendly and approachable in conjunction with professionalism allows for an open and judgement free environment…
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Denzil

English Tutor Lenah Valley, TAS
-Being patient and understanding the student's needs -Creating a learning environment that is comfortable and lets the student be confident -Having sound knowledge of the learning material and preparing well for lessons I believe that I am a very patient person, which allows me to give a learning experience that is relaxing and not daunting for…
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Elijah

English Tutor Sandy Bay, TAS
Ensure they meet there every need and ensure a student is enjoying their learning, because if there not enjoying they won’t do well. Being polite and patient with students is crucial as it may take a while for them to understand but encouraging them and having their back will bring out their confidence and it will show in their results aswell.…

Local Reviews

l am extremely happy with Tara. She is such a lovely person, so thank-you for sending her to us.
Sage

Inside West HobartTutoring Sessions

Content Covered

Year 4 student Scarlett focused on identifying and using Greek and Latin roots in words, followed by quick activities on prefixes, suffixes, and applying punctuation rules such as commas and hyphens.

Year 12 student Aimee revised stoichiometry calculations with an emphasis on mole-mass conversions, then moved onto tackling exam-style questions in Organic Chemistry.

Meanwhile, Year 12 student Charli concentrated on the adaptive immune system by working through related practice questions and also reviewed principles of CRISPR-Cas9 gene technology.

Recent Challenges

In Year 11 Chemistry, Aimee sometimes became overwhelmed by multi-step questions, leading her to overcomplicate rather than break problems down. As one tutor noted, "She needs to slow down and use diagrams or equations to simplify."

In Year 7 English, Scarlett often skipped words while reading aloud and hesitated to ask clarifying questions when confused; this occasionally led to misunderstanding sentence structure tasks.

Huy in Year 12 Biology tended not to provide enough depth in short answer responses—feedback was given on developing fuller explanations using key terminology.

Missed opportunities for regular revision contributed to these issues across subjects.

Recent Achievements

One West Hobart tutor noticed a real shift in Aimee's approach to chemistry: she now openly flags any areas of confusion during sessions and patiently works through challenging concepts, instead of moving on uncertain.

In another session, Charli demonstrated new initiative by highlighting her weaker topics for focused revision—something she hadn't done before—and then successfully applied her knowledge to answer the targeted questions.

Meanwhile, Zane, a younger student, tackled an article analysis by reading aloud fluently and asking for word definitions when needed, finishing with his own clear paraphrasing of the main points.

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 State Library of Tasmania—or at your child's school (with permission), like Guilford Young College - Hobart Campus.