Elinor

Over the past two years I've built up hands-on teaching experience across one-to-one tutoring and after-school programmes, working with primary and secondary age students across maths, English, and general learning support. I have particular experience working with students with ADHD and ASD, and adapt naturally to shorter focused bursts, more varied tasks, and feedback where needed. My background in psychology means I pay close attention to how a student is feeling about a subject, not just how they're performing. Anxiety, frustration, and low confidence are often real bottlenecks, and addressing those allow us to make progress in covering the content. Additionally, I try to emphasise learning skills, such as how to retain information, how to approach problems you haven't seen before, and how to perform under exam conditions.

I start each new student with a relaxed diagnostic conversation to understand where they're at, what's not clicking, and what their goals are. From there, sessions are flexible and led by the student's pace. Lessons tend to be collaborative rather than instructional, which means I don't sit and lecture. We often work through problems together, with me guiding rather than just explaining. It's critical to me that the student is always doing the thinking rather than passively watching me do it. However, I don't believe in a one-size-fits-all approach: some students need concepts broken down from scratch, others just need someone to work through problems alongside them.

My lessons are built around the student rather. I work directly with whatever resources the student is already using (their textbooks, class notes, homework, and past papers), so sessions are immediately relevant to what they're actually being assessed on.