One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Eleni will be happy to arrange your first Biology lesson.
Eleni
One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Eleni will be happy to arrange your first Biology lesson.
- Hourly rate £65
- Response Time 7h
- Number of students 50+
£65/hr
1st lesson free
- Biology
- Cellular biology
- Genetics
- Physiology
- Molecular biology
A PhD biologist with 15 years of experience in academic education and qualified teacher in the UK. Teaching Biology from GCSE to Postgraduate level, using truly tailored techniques for each student.
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One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Eleni will be happy to arrange your first Biology lesson.
About Eleni
I combine an extensive academic background with real in-school teaching experience. For over 15 years, I have supported so many school, University and postgraduate students succeed in their goals and secure their top choice of University. In my pedagogy training, I specialised in utilising my PhD level knowledge of Biology to develop teaching methods that can really make a difference to students of all abilities. I have supported GCSE students with difficulties in attention and exam technique by tailoring my lessons to their exact needs, as well as very high achieving students who need an additional challenge and have competitive goals like medicine and dentistry.
My extensive training in competitive institutions is what has fortified my abilities and experience as a tutor. I have completed:
- BSc in Human Genetics in University College London
- MSc in Molecular Medicine in Imperial College London
- PhD in Stem Cell Biology and Embryology in King's College London
- Further research in Oxford University.
- Qualified Teacher Status for PhD holders: Curriculum Designer and Researcher in
Educational Methods
My pedagogy training, Qualified Teacher Status and teaching experience were achieved in a cutting edge and prestigious program, run by The Brilliant Club, where academics are placed in secondary education, with the goal of improving the quality of science teaching and inspiring students to pursue competitive university studies. This program was specifically tailored to translate my vast academic experience into school teaching. I was able to gain valuable insight into the challenges and limitations of the educational system and develop ways to support students of all levels, ranging from students with special educational needs to challenging students that become easily bored with standard school activities.
I have now turned to being a full time tutor, as it is something I enjoy so much! It is hugely gratifying to be able to see a student fulfil their full potential and achieve their dreams! This also means that I have the time to dedicate to ensure that each one of my students gets excellent and consistent resources, feedback and individualised support, in a way that is simply not possible for tutors doing this as a side job.
My long term experience in the academic field, seeing the student selection process first hand, equipped me with the ability to guide students on their study goals, as well as how to prepare their university applications for competitive universities.
Kindly note that the number of references in this platform is not representative of the number of students I have taught, as online tutoring is relatively new and the majority of my students over the first 10 years or more of my career were in the good old fashioned way, i.e. in person and by word of mouth! (I am older than I look - in my early 40s :) I have actually tutored over 100 students, both privately, in University and in supportive extra tuition in schools.
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- GCSE
- A Level
- Undergraduate
- +2
levels :
GCSE
A Level
Undergraduate
Masters
Doctorate
- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
English
You might be wondering why my rates are a bit higher than average and the answer is simple: I am now a professional tutor, channelling all my time and energy in developing my services, for those that want serious results. I am not a student still figuring out their teaching style or someone doing this after a long day at work as a side income. For every student, I:
-Evaluate each student’s level and needs at the beginning of our collaboration and throughout the year.
-Make a specific plan for what revision notes and practice questions to provide.
-Create exam board specific resources that truly link the theory to how each topic looks like in an exam question and structuring model answers (this is something that is missing, or just not done well enough in popular revision resource websites – I often spot many mistakes in their “model answers”!!)
-Set homework after each lesson that I mark and discuss with my student. With the way exam questions are phrased and the highly precise language they want you to use to get full marks, exam technique is as important (if not more so) as studying. Unfortunately, many times students are given quite vague guidelines on how to answer exam questions, like, “be specific”, or “use appropriate keywords”. However, each student is unique and unless one spends time to really pick apart the specific mistakes they make when answering exam questions, it will actually be hard to improve, even when they study a lot!
-Regularly communicate with parents & guardians about our progress and areas to focus on.
-Familiarise myself with revision resources students have from their school and often merge my own notes with school notes that I deem to be of good quality – I want to work WITH the student, not adding to their confusion by giving them too many notes to study from.
-Always include a few minutes of self-reflection for the student (shown in the educational literature to be a powerful tool for creating independent learners), as well as checking in to see how they are handling their stress and anxiety. I’ve been in enough competitive academic institutions to know how hard it can get and can offer ways for students to identify their learning insecurities, so we can face them together!
This all takes time, dedication and consistency, which I am able to offer as a full time tutor! Importantly, I take on a limited number of students so as to be able to offer this level of individualised support and attention.
Furthermore, I’ve developed my deep insight on the inner workings of each exam board over years of hard work, through my specialised academic training, where I’ve seen what it takes to succeed in higher education.
My lesson structure typically consists of explaining and breaking down concepts in a way that is easily understandable, as well as developing student's exam technique. Unfortunately, students do not always get enough past paper question practice in school, even though it is a highly essential part of revision. All my lessons include exam questions, where I use a step-by-step approach on building model answers. I also give specific feedback to each student on exactly what types of mistakes they tend to make and how they can improve their answers. This has proven to be a very efficient technique to target each student's problem areas that can’t be tackled simply by reading the textbook over and over!
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I would like to highly recommend Eleni. My son used to struggle with Science, and his GCSE prospects seemed dire. However, after a year of tutoring with Eleni, there was a remarkable positive change. Alex's comprehension of Science improved significantly, boosting both his understanding and confidence. Consequently, his grades also saw a notable improvement. In the end, he achieved much better grades in Combined Science than his mock exams had predicted.
Eleni is not only a highly effective tutor but also an incredibly supportive and responsible one. She is a lovely person to work with, and her dedication to her students is evident in the positive outcomes she helps them achieve.
Mrs. Eleni is a wonderful, charismatic and supportive teacher. She helped me for 3 years and taught me of all crucial stuff and lectures throughout my whole university time.
I highly recommend Mrs. Eleni to any student, who is planning to learn BSc (Biological Science course) and Ecology. Or to students, who are finding difficulty at high university level learning.
Ilyas.Eleni is really good at explaining difficult concepts and makes learning hard material fun! She’s a lovely person to talk to and is really knowledgeable in her field. She also has amazing PowerPoint slides she uses and is happy to send extra paper questions as revision. I would definitely call her again if I needed help with my biology!
Eleni is an inspirational tutor whatever level your child is at. She comes with great experience and shows great patience to make sure her pupils truly understand the subject. She also takes time to understand the pupil, and gets to know their particular way of learning because every child is different. I highly recommend her for your son or daughter.
Eleni has been tutoring our son in Chemistry for a few months and he's made huge progress and started enjoying the subject. We highly recommend her and couldn't be happier of her work and passion to teach our son. She's a fantastic teacher and person.
Eleni was my daughter’s tutor for A-level biology in 2010. Marianna was in her final year of A-level biology school and we had concerns about her performance in past papers. Eleni tutored her from February util her exam and Marianna managed to get a B and get into her first choice, in Bristol university. She had a very good relationship with Eleni and felt much more confident since they started lessons together. I didn’t interfere very much, as this is my approach in general, but I do know that Eleni helped a lot with structuring the longer essay questions, which is what Marianna was mainly struggling with and loosing marks on those questions. She also helped in general with keeping up with the workload and not feeling swamped.
Eleni was a very pleasant and polite person and I would recommend her to others.Eleni worked in my lab research group here at King's College London and taught many undergraduates and A-level students on summer projects. She is an excellent communicator on a wide range of subjects from maths to biochemistry. She's also very dedicated and cares.
Eleni was my appointed supervisor during my final year undergraduate lab-based project. She was responsible for teaching me experimental techniques and helping me with my literature research and dissertation writing. She was an extremely supportive and patient teacher and I felt very comfortable to seek help with any problems I encountered in my project. As final year students, we were expected to absorb a lot of new information in a short amount of time and I was very fortunate that Eleni was very methodical about explaining everything, such that I did not become overwhelmed. I also appreciated that she made sure I met my deadline for submitting my dissertation by stressing the importance of regular progress meetings. My experience in my project was thoroughly enjoyable and it motivated me to pursue PhD studies in cell biology.
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