Melissa K

I am an accredited clinical research practitioner with experience teaching as part of my industrial year in a biochemistry degree. I have tutored over 25 students specialising in science and maths in the past 4 years across various platforms with students varying between year 7 to 13. I like to work in a way that the student progresses the most in each lesson, by creating a comfortable learning environment in a way that works best for each student, whether that be by going through everything with a fine tooth comb, going over work they have been given at school, doing exam practise or revising topics that they don't feel confident with. I do this by focusing on how they feel they best learn, visually or through discussion and I am willing to go extra lengths to make sure the students memorise, but also understand the content required, and not just retaining information for an exam, with the intention of later forgetting it. I believe I am a flexible tutor, and can adapt to the needs of every student. I believe that students should be given the opportunity to develop their passions, but also focus on the subjects they struggle with. By providing them with framework to make deeper connections between subjects and their passions, it makes the information they learn for their qualifications isn't just for the exams that they sit, but also to apply it later in life. I am fun and dedicated, and able to understand the problems in which students go through in the process of learning, and am able to help them with subjects that I believe I am strong enough at to improve their confidence with. I have also had tutoring experience for over 4 years, and have increased confidence in every student that I have tutored. Some of my students were only doing science because they had to for GCSE and have now decided to progress and do a level of these subjects.