Kayron - Kingston upon Thames tutor





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Information About Kayron:


Personal Description:

I am a British citizen born in Gibraltar, am 23 years old and married. I have always been very hard-working in school, particularly as from my A-Levels in which I did very well and went on to obtain a First Class Master's degree in Physics with Astronomy from the University of Nottingham. I then went on to Imperial College London to study for another Master's degree in Physics, which I finished in September 2009, achieving a Pass with Distinction. As of October 2009, I am working in Imperial College London as a PhD student of the Plasma Physics Research Group for controlled thermonuclear fusion.

Another side of me is computing, in which I have many years of experience and expertise. Throughout summers of my first degree I was working as a computer technician and software developer in a company in Gibraltar. Throughout my work and personal experience, I have acquired a lot of experience in a broad range of areas in computing, including systems build-up (building PCs from scratch), software and hardware problem diagnosis and repair, computer programming, database design and various other design areas such as animations and movies (professionally-produced).

On a more personal side, I am also a student of the martial arts, specifically Tae Kwon Do. I find it teaches values that cannot be obtained from many other things. Swimming and weight training are also sports I practice for personal fitness. As I am from Gibraltar, I am also fluent in both English and Spanish although I much prefer teaching in English due to having spent my entire life in a UK-based education system.

If you desire tutoring in an area of computing for your own interest (whether following a short course or simply for your own knowledge - i.e. not a UK-based school qualification), please contact me letting me know what it is you are interested in learning. I can provide personal training in many areas, including systems build-up, database design (and programming as part of design), beginning computer programming, etc.



Teaching Experience:

I have been tutoring for several years and have had many instances where I have tutored friends informally. During my A-Levels I tutored friends in Mathematics, Physics and Computing (the subjects I took), helping them with questions and understanding the problem clearly in their minds. During my first degree, I tutored a few course mates before exams, helping them work through past papers and understanding the physical concepts involved. Additionally, I have taught computer programming and database design to many friends of mine (including my Computing teacher in A-Levels!) and my older brother for his work projects.

In my past experience, I have realised I am able to grasp concepts quickly, whether new or old revisited, and am a very able communicator (during my first degree I even took courses to aid my teaching style, even for lectures). One of my best traits is also my great deal of patience - something my friends have always accredited me for. As a result of this, and being very personable, I have absolutely no problem with having to explain things many times in different ways - it is something I have a great, great deal of experience with and have never not been able to teach something to someone, no matter how complex!

I have been tutoring through UK Tutors in particular since August 2009, when I was nearing the completion of my second Master's degree. Since then I have tutored people between the ages of 12 and 18 for anything like entrance exams, GCSEs, A-Levels and anything in-between.



Tutoring Approach:

My first concern is the confidence of the tutee. The tutee must feel confident around me and able to communicate his/her ideas in order to learn for himself/herself. One factor that always hinders learning by a tutee is their lack of confidence in themselves or lack of confidence around their tutor, something that must be addressed from the beginning to develop throughout tutoring.

At the start of any tutoring job, my first objective is to get to know the tutee's strengths, weaknesses and working approach. I usually do this by working through some topics and also by speaking to the tutee about how he/she feels about different things, his/her objectives, etc. After the very first hour, tutoring takes off on to the deep end.

Throughout tutoring, I explain things in a very clear and concise manner, highlighting all the physical concepts and similarities to common daily life applications. This really helped me develop my tutoring skills, particularly during my first degree when tutoring course mates complex physics. Until the problem isn't understood physically in the tutee's mind's eye, the problem isn't clear and the concept cannot be grasped fully. As a result of this, I ensure there is no way the tutee has any doubts as to how to understand the problem and approach it logically.

Both my extensive experience in computing and my experience in physics have developed my logical, analytical and reasoning skills greatly. This combined with my personable nature allows me to teach anything I am proficient at in a very efficient manner.



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Qualifications:

  • CURRENT: PGCE Secondary Science (Physics) from Kingston University
  • MPhil Plasma Physics (Research) from Imperial College London
  • MSc Physics (Pass with Distinction) from Imperial College London
  • MSci Physics with Astronomy (First Class with Honours) from The University of Nottingham

Further Information:

Availability:  Weekends
Types of Tutoring:   Travels to you / Online
References Supplied?   Yes
Current DBS/CRB Check?   Yes
Additional Languages Spoken:   Spanish