Information About Dylan - Rustenburg tutor

Personal Description:

You can tell a lot about me by the ways I like to enjoy myself. I'm a teacher, reader, swimmer, gardener, laugh-er, computer nerd and generally a free spirit. My friends often laugh about me being "out there", whatever that means!

Being a teacher has allowed me to keep young, laugh, and do amazing things with children. I really feel that primary teachers are the luckiest people on Earth because we are submerged in young souls all the time.

When I was a kid, I never said, "Hey, mom, I want to be a teacher!"

Instead I said, "Mom, I wanna have fun!" I think that life has brought me to the perfect career because I have fun every day. You'll soon learn that about me.

When I'm not teaching I like to work hard and play hard. Digging and working in my yard is extremely relaxing and therapeutic for me. I love to try to grow new plants - green things grow!

But - when I'm not covered in dirt and sweating I like to relax hard too. Living by the water is a magical thing.

Tutoring Experience:

IMPAK Exam preperation
Pro Active Learning Academy
Online IT And Programming

Tutoring Approach:

The best way to learn material is to grapple with it, to think about it, to use and apply it. This is the foundation of the idea of "active learning". I try to incorporate these ideas into my teaching methods, by involving students in developing their understanding of material, rather than presenting material and asking them to go away and think about it. To this end, I try not to lecture too much, and to use a number of techniques to draw students in. I think that the most useful technique here is to ask students to justify their answers, to ask them why they gave the answer they did to a question. This helps students to understand the foundations of their understanding of the subject.