James Lawrence

Having been tutored in the past and having tutored others in the past, I recognise the need for different methods with different students. For myself I found essay practise and running through questions extraordinarily helpful when revising for humanities subjects, however I also practised with students simple quote recall, fact finding in books/textbooks and hosts of other revision techniques suited to that student. Whilst in STEM subjects such as maths and science, some students of doing separated also found essay practise to be helpful, however I found many students found the most helpful technique was to explain how a certain topic works and from there begin to understand the facts, making them far easier to recall.

Furthermore, I found implementing methods such as simply reading information and talking it through to be extremely impactful in some subjects such as English or history, as this method of communication allows for discussions focused not on what a class may need to be taught, but specifically on what the student does not understand or developing there own personal ideas away from the classroom, something indispensable for exam season. My tutoring would focus mainly on this method of personal teaching, allowing the student to develop independently of their class which can not always be a place of individual flourishing, which as a skill of independent thinking, can be influential not only in exam seasons as something markers look for, but helpful in developing ideas and answers away from the presence of the classroom and ideas that are uniquely the students.