Information About Orla - Portarlington tutor -

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Personal Description:

I am a science & maths tutor. I completed my Bachelors degree in Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Science. I am educated to masters level in Science and pharmaceutical regulatory affairs in UL. I completed Informatics Data Analysis, coding and Statistics L7 from ATU.
I worked in Pfizer for 10 years as a laboratory scientist and Specialist in QA and regulatory Documentation.

I am fully garda vetted.
I can work with special needs children giving grinds also. I graduated with QQI L5 Healthcare and have worked with children and adults with special needs in my career.

Tutoring Experience:
I have 3 years experience of giving grinds to secondary school students, children and university students.

Approach to Grinds:
My teaching approach involves identifying areas of the curriculum that the student wants to focus on, or to plan an overall timetable to cover the entire course as the year progresses. My teaching uses readings, notes, visuals and is practically orientated. I use real world examples to make it easy for the student to relate to the content. I have always taught students struggling with concepts and focus on understanding concepts and basics. Building upon this as we progress.

Tutoring Experience:

I completed the "Teaching for Learning" course with the Commonwealth for Education Trust & "Learning how to Learn" with Deep Teaching Solutions. I also completed "School Health for Children & Adolescents" with the University of Colorado. I studied behavioural science at 3rd level.

I have 3 years experience tutoring in senior cycle and junior cycle science and chemistry and Biology. I also tutored in college in chemistry and maths.
I have experience teaching the special needs child.

Approach to Grinds:

I have a practical and objective approach to tutoring. I do an initial casual consultation with student and/or parent(s)/guardians to get an understanding of where you are in your studies. I get to know the knowledge gaps and the learning style of my students.

I use various methods e.g. mind map's, mnemonics to help students depending on whether the challenge is memorisation, understanding or retention of information (or all).

I apply my teachings to each students learning style and strengths with appropriate breaks. I teach good revision strategies and routines for retention of information, that are easy to apply.