Suvettha

Hi, I’m Suvettha, organised and adaptable tutor with 3 years’ experience tutoring students in-person and online from ages 4-16. I teach English, Geography and Religious Studies up to A-Level.

Tutoring Experience

I have 3 years experience tutoring privately and with 2 different organisations in-person and online.

Tutoring Approach

Each of my lessons include a review of past content promoting knowledge retention and help build a proactive approach to learning. Content reviews help the student to see where they are less confident and create an open space for them to make mistakes, ask questions and consolidate their knowledge.

Every lesson will end with feedback to the student and if desired, the parent/guardian to promote transparency and allow you to keep track of your child's learning. Each lesson I will highlight a main target which I would like the student to focus on in the coming lessons. A more in-depth feedback session can also be arranged to talk through plans for teaching and targets if that is something you would like.

For GCSE and A-Level students, I focus on building skills and working through each question structure in the papers. I provide examples of excellence and help students to make targets to improve work. This allows them to recognise features of good writing and learn how to self-assess their own learning so that they are prepared to do this during exams and in the lead up to exams. I also ensure that their revision material is prepared well in advance and to an excellent standard to ensure that students have ample time to practice and consolidate their knowledge before the exams.

While tutoring at Team Up, I received a SSAT Gold Student Leadership Accreditation. I taught English on a 2-1 basis. During my lessons with Team Up, with a synoptic focus on creative writing, I taught a range of topics including, active/passive voice, conjunctions, writing with a purpose, persuasive writing, using paragraphs and grammar such as parenthesis, apostrophes and questions/exclamations. When teaching KS2, I feel it is important to incorporate reading to build up confidence overtime as many students so not feel confident with public speaking and reading aloud is the first step in improving this. While teaching I found that that although lessons were structured to feature a topic review (usually essay writing) at the end of the lesson, this did not cater to many of my students who came home from school and logged on immediately. For this reason, if necessary, I include games and change around the structure of the lesson to have the topic review at the beginning of the lesson so that students were more energised and able to provide good essays that were an accurate reflection of their ability. Often students do not want to write the essay at all and so I adapt the lesson by for example, planning and writing paragraphs as a group showing the students that writing can be enjoyable whilst also maximising productivity in the hour.

I am passionate about providing personalised lessons and improving my students mindsets to learning and therefore make sure find out what works for each child so that I am able to individually tailor the lessons to fit their learning style.