Elena Manova

I am an enthusiastic and passionate educator with the affinity for teaching as this is my personal cause – to educate people and help them to discover the power of being literate and well-educated.
I have proven to be an approachable, patient and hard working teacher and tutor with the ability to make difficult concepts easier which facilitate crystal clear understanding of the subject.
My approach is caring , my curriculum is focused on interactive, problem based learning where activities are modelled from potential real world applications. As well as explaining how given concept or technique may be applied to a real world situation, I also emphasise when given technique could, and should be used. In applications ( and often on quiz , kinesthetic and interactive activities , Maths Detectives’ tasks and exam questions), the students are explicitly told which mathematical device will be most helpful, so in demonstrating why a particular technique is effective, I try to give an overview of other situations in which it may be applied so that the students will recognise them they see them. I also emphasise that many questions may be approached using multiple methods, all of which lead to the same result if done correctly, and while some may be more elegant than others, the choice of which method to use is a matter of personal preference. It is important to me to know that the students are learning the material, and I use a variety of methods to assess how well they understand what is going on. While explaining a concept or demonstrating a sample problem during a lesson, I often seek input from the students on how they think the concept works or how the solution should proceed, and encourage them to ask questions if they do not understand a particular idea.

Give the students opportunities to think about their learning and evaluate their own progress, participate in their decision-making and develop their own individual strategies for reading and understanding the tasks, listening to each other when sharing ideas, speaking and discussing how to solve different Maths problems, writing and organizing the solution of the problem.