Mani Santosh Varma Devaragatla

My personal experience of tutoring I started tutoring Mathemtics over 3 years ago and it still excites and gratifies me to see my student’s progress, watching them enjoying their academic journey and reaping the results of their efforts in the end. Through the years, my tutoring has evolved in many ways and I realised that it is a learning curve for me as well as for my students. Recognising points for improvement, analysing and later perfecting them has helped me to grow into the more consistent and confident tutor that I am today.

I first realised that I am gifted at explaining and assisting in the study of Mathematics when I was helping a close friend to prepare for her Mathematics exam. I realised that my ability to be flexible, patient and most importantly receptive is particularly useful for mathematics tuition. Therefore when the opportunity was right I decided to try myself as tutor, which I have continued doing.

Teaching one to one or organising small groups of people I get an excellent understanding of how my students are performing and how to be most effective in helping them to succeed. Often teachers don’t get such a luxury as they have much bigger audiences to present their subject to. I fully appreciate now that tutoring is not merely the reciting of information to students,as you must adjust your lessons for the specific needs of each of them.

I can’t stress enough that evaluating a lesson is very important for it to be useful to the student. Asking questions as to what they enjoyed or found difficult at the end of the lesson is extremely valuable and something that should not be neglected.