LoginJohn - Mansfield tutor
Information About John:
Personal Description:
I live near Mansfield and help my partner with her pet grooming business. My children are all grown up and either working or at university. I have worked in radar, retail and education. I gained my degree through the Open University. I would rather meet plenty of people and new situations than work all day every day in the same space.
Teaching Experience:
I have taught at Further Education colleges and at school, primarily in the sixth form (IT). I have delivered IT skills within non-IT based curricula (Health & Social Care, NNEB, Leisure & Tourism, Science). Evening classes provided an opportunity to appreciate applications of IT within different career settings - I taught on vocational courses. I have attended work/home settings to assist in the solution (through learning) to individual or group concerns, facilitating a positive attitude towards the use of IT at work or in the home.
Tutoring Approach:
Learning should be fun, spontaneous and freely sought. Teaching methods should be motivating and encourage retention of learning, as well as leading the student to attempt to solve problems for themselves as far as possible, so that if there are gaps to be filled, the student will have some informed connection with any discussion. I strive to promote an investigative approach to new learning, especially with IT/computing lessons. In IT I like to teach skills that learners will use, in maths I try to make the learning approach informed, so that the next problem in a topic, although requiring something different to the last one, can be solved using underpinning knowledge previously gained
Subjects Taught:
Qualifications:
- PGCE: FE
- Degree in maths and computing BA
Further Information:
| Availability: | Weekends / Weekdays (all times) |
| Types of Tutoring: | Travels to you / From their home |
| References Supplied? | Yes |
| Current DBS/CRB Check? | Yes |
