LoginAshley - Southampton tutor
Information About Ashley:
Personal Description:
My name is Ashley, I'm an 19 year old girl who's in her second year of a Masters Degree in Physics with Astronomy at the University of Southampton. My grade for Year 1 is a First.
I live in Southampton during term time and holidays (Kent Road, SO17). I am willing to tutor during either time!
I am a bubbly, friendly character, definitely a people-person, but I love my subject and feel I have a good balance of sensible yet fun which makes learning enjoyable yet effective!
Teaching Experience:
I unfortunately have no formal experience but on a casual level I have always enjoyed helping friends and classmates when they are struggling with their work. Earlier on in my education, I was quite ahead of my classmates (which led me to being moved up a year as I entered Parkstone Grammar School), and this occasionally led to my teachers asking me to help them with the class. In all, I would say that I have a reasonable amount of experience for someone my age!
Tutoring Approach:
In essence, I suppose the aim of tutoring is to improve a student's understanding and aptitude for a subject. However, I would like to think that I try and offer something more. My specialist area of interest are Astronomy and Particle Physics, but I love Physics as a whole and I really think it is a shame that so many people don't get the chance to really appreciate it as a subject. (The reason I also offer Maths is that, although I do not fundamentally enjoy it as much as Physics, Maths IS fundamental in itself and in order to study Physics I must maintain a good grasp of it - after all, as they say, at University; Physics is Maths! Once it 'clicks', it is beautiful!)
Nearly everyone I know severely disliked both Physics and Maths in school. Often it is perceived as hard, but especially lately the teaching style has changed quite dramatically at certain levels in an attempt to improve students' interest; it does not seem to be working. Perhaps it is simply the case that the student does not connect well with their teacher - I know from experience how possible this is and how badly it hinders one's grasp of the subject at hand.
Clearly, there can be a lot of struggling when it comes to learning these subjects, and while I can't single-handedly solve the problem, I hope to ignite some sort of enthusiasm in younger students - whether it is by helping them see that what they are studying IS used by professional scientists, or later on in their education to study fantastic phenomena; or whether it is just by explaining it in that slightly different way that makes it all suddenly *click*. Perhaps it is the case that the student has a passion for the subject but it just isn't clicking - yet!
Under all that wild ambition; my simple strategy is regular tutoring sessions that will thoroughly cover the syllabus in a coherent progression - jumbling up or going too fast are to be avoided!
Subjects Taught:
Qualifications:
- 11 GCSEs 5xA, 6xA*. Includes Dual Science A*A*, Maths A, Astronomy A*
- Physics A-level (A)
- Maths A-level (A)
- First Year Grade: 71.8 average
Further Information:
| Availability: | Weekends / Weekdays (evenings) |
| Types of Tutoring: | Travels to you |
| References Supplied? | Yes |
