Adrian

Zoom (online, highly recommended) sessions for all except Special Needs students ( whom I work with face to face). All online sessions are a flat fee of £30 per session for KS1 , KS2 and KS3 ( except GCSE) and £35 for GCSE , AS and A levels (sessions are nominally 50 minutes but usually last longer). I do a limited amount of free sessions for students with severe disabilities or families with very low income. I'm perfectly set up for remote sessions with two cameras, two screens and large bandwidth Internet connection. Screen interaction with students on the Zoom whiteboard makes the session so much more effective and interactive and it's of course a face to face meeting. Experienced, qualified professional with excellent tuition skills in Mathematics. Very good interpersonal and relationship skills and a good sense of humour. Dedicated and enthusiastic. Achieving high success rates on a regular basis. Gentle but firm support to younger students at KS1 or KS2. Great help offered if you are at low and very low GCSE Foundation level. Great support for GCSE Higher Tiers and A levels Mathematics. Training for Entrance exams: 11+, 13+, SET. Old style and new style 9-1 Math GCSE and IGCSE. Cambridge style IGCSE. Functional Skills Maths. AS and A levels Math and Mechanics. Trained in dealing with Special Needs students. Above all, most of my students grow CONFIDENT in themselves !

Tutoring Experience

I have been giving Math tuition since I was a student at University, more than 45 years ago. Before retiring I worked for nearly 33 years as a fully qualified Chartered Civil and Structural Design Engineer. I have applied my mathematical skills in engineering for all of my career whilst continuing to practice Mathematics tuition with a variety of students.

I am fully familiar and working with the following :
National curriculum in England: framework for key stages 1 to 4
National curriculum in England: complete framework for key stages 1 to 4 - for teaching from 1 September 2015 to 31 August 2016
National curriculum in England: complete framework for key stages 1 to 4 - for teaching from September 2016

Also with the following :

National curriculum in England: mathematics programmes of study
National curriculum in England: mathematics programmes of study - key stages 1 and 2
National curriculum in England: mathematics programme of study - key stage 3
National curriculum in England: mathematics programme of study - key stage 4

Working with curriculums ( syllabus) from most examination boards : AQA, Edexcel, OCR, Cambridge style entry examinations, Cambridge style IGCSE, Functional Skills Maths.

Tutoring Approach

I would like my students to understand the logic behind mathematical applications and not just memorise the mechanics of solving exercises. I aim to make mathematics something interesting, intriguing, useful, challenging and fun. I aim to enable the students to develop a useful tool for them to use throughout their life. My lessons are planned and structured based on the key stage requirements. They usually start with discussing the homework from a previous session. This may be followed by an introduction of a new topic and new technique, I may use examples from life, hand sketches, multimedia, etc...I then present the student with typical exercises, some worked out already and explain the steps. Student then works alone on a few exercises. The lessons usually end with checking and discussing the student's work, obtaining feedback, a review a important items to remember, lessons learnt and assigning homework.
I keep a weekly progress sheet for each student to monitor progress and proficiency.