LoginVivek - Highbury tutor
Information About Vivek:
Personal Description:
I am currently Chief Resident for Education and Director of the Neuropsychiatry Consultation Service at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, USA. I was previously a Visting Fellow at Harvard Univeristy in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health. I qualified in Medicine with Distinction from King's College London and also received a BSc in Psychology with First Class Honours from the same institution. I have a distinguished educational history, including winning prestigious prizes such as the British Pharmacological Society's Medical Student Prize. These attainments have come not from innate intelligence (though I do have a fair bit of that), but from a solid understanding of what is required to perform well in exams as well as positive mental training.
I enjoy film, photography, theatre, reading, writing, and travelling.
**Please note I have very limited availability**
Teaching Experience:
I have a number of years' experience providing private tuition with all students meeting or surpassing their expectations. I am familiar with the OCR, AQA-A, AQA-B and WJEC specifications for Psychology A-level, and OCR and AQA Sociology specification. In addition, I hold Visiting Appointments as a Research Fellow at King's College London (Institute of Psychiatry) and Lecturer at Deakin University, Australia teaching psychological medicine and have been involved in designing and teaching undergraduate courses in the Sociology of Health and Illness. I have published and presented work at national and international conferences on my innovations in teaching.
Tutoring Approach:
In my experience the main problems that students have is not their level of knowledge, but their exam technique, writing skills, critical thinking/analytic skills, and conceptual understanding. Students also have difficulty discerning what information they do and do not need to know. So my focus is on challenging my students to develop their skills and exam technique, and to familiarise them with their specifications and assessment objectives. I also offer positive mental training (used by top athletes) to help improve performance. The mental preparing for exams is not that dissimilar to preparing for an olympic sport!
Motivation and willingness to engage in private tuition are keys to success I cannot instill. For this reason I require the student, and not (just) the parent/guardian to contact me. A good fit between the tutor and tutee is also important. Even the best tutor in the world will not get very far with a student if they don't 'click'. That is why I assess whether the relationship is workable before committing to it.
Different students have different learning styles and interests. I identify these and tailor my teaching style to the individual student.
I have experience with working with students with learning difficulties, physical and mental illnesses, or current social/family adversity.
***only take requests from students themselves, will NOT respond to parent/friend requests***
***only available for online tutoring via Skype currently I have a lot of experience using online teaching***
Subjects Taught:
Qualifications:
- MBBS Medicine (Distinction), King's College London;
- BSc Psychology with Medical Sciences (First Class Honours), King's College London
- A-Levels: Biology (A), Chemistry (A), English Literature (A), Drama & Theatre Studies (B), Art and Design (a)
- GCSEs: 10A*s and 1A including Maths, English Language, English Literature, Chemistry, Physics, History, French, German, Latin, Statistics, and Drama
Further Information:
| Availability: | Weekends / Weekdays (all times) |
| Types of Tutoring: | Online |
| References Supplied? | Yes |
