Information About Shreya - Watford teacher -

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Personal Description:

Hi! I’m a singer and pianist and an ambitious student studying Music at Durham University and really enjoy tutoring! I had always enjoyed music theory especially when I was first learning and still am with the various theory and analysis modules I am taking in my 2nd year. I hope to pass the same understanding and excitement to the students who are quite daunted by its concepts and the extension into music as a subject. I began my tutoring journey at the start of Sixth Form with a tutoring company, honing my teaching skills for nearly 2 years. Now that I’m studying at university, with much more experience and actively picking up theory modules, I would love to use my course as a basis to return as a tutor for Music and Music theory - eg GCSEs, ABRSM Grades, refreshers.

Tutoring Experience:

- Worked for over a year at a tutoring company (December 2022-July 2024) primarily as an English and Maths tutor.
- Experience tutoring a range of ages from 4-15 - taught me to be adaptable and cater to student’s learning styles.
- Welfare and Safeguarding trained
- Various responsibilities as music prefect at Sixth Form gave me many transferable skills, e.g. helping students from younger years during choirs and orchestras by leading sectionals.
- Am on the executive team for the University Choir as Librarian this year - engaged in looking at choral scores extracurricularly too.

Tutoring Approach:

- Flexible - centred around the specific student - with a focus on individual-tailored lessons that draw on their preferred learning style.
- Scaffolding technique - emphasis on giving the student the tools to understand areas they find difficult without micro managing their learning to ultimately to give them the confidence in attempting questions independently.
- Interactive sessions - learning concepts alongside the application to ensure clarity and understanding. I think this is the most important approach because music and music theory can be very densely conceptual and seeing it written out onto score or on a piano greatly helps visualise the rules and theory system.