Mark B
Tutor in Acton, West London

Since 2014 I have taught in excess of 3000 hours across Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science as a full-time private tutor. I have tutored students from ages 12 to 22 across a variety of UK and European academic qualifications.
These include both the more popular qualifications (GCSE and A level) as well as the rarer (IB and Pre-U). Predominantly I have tutored and home-schooled students for A level examinations. I tutor Sunday to Friday inclusive, with times available throughout the morning, afternoon and evening. Regular, intensive and one-off sessions are available. As I travel via a combination of Brompton (folding bike) and public transport I have good range and reliability across West and Central London. Please contact with your requirements and location and I will respond promptly with potential times and dates.

Background
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I began work as a tutor in 2009 whilst completing my first degree in Physics (MPhys) at the University of Manchester. My second degree, a postgraduate masters of research, was obtained from Homerton College, Cambridge in 2011. Subsequently I began work on my interdisciplinary PhD based between University College London and CERN. Whilst writing up my thesis in 2014 (subsequently graduating in February 2016) I began work as a full-time tutor.

This has allowed me to continue two of my primary passions - learning and teaching. Over the years I have built-up an extensive textbook and popular science collection. I am constantly striving to find new ways to improve how I deliver content; Especially those areas I had struggled with myself at school.
In doing so I have developed an excellent breadth of knowledge allowing me to set course material in context. I find this allows students to see how disparate areas are related.

In Autumn 2017 I taught full-time as a teacher at a prestigious school in Surrey, UK. Here I was solely responsible for teaching the new OCR GCSE and A level Computer Science courses. Both qualifications required production of large quantities of teaching and assessment materials. Combined with my prior knowledge of the programming language, Python, I have developed methodologies to teach students of various aptitudes how to program. I am currently transcribing these methodologies and resources onto my personal website for public use.

I have taught Physics, my first love, from school entrance through to University-level courses in Thermodynamics. Furthermore I have home-schooled students the entirety of A level physics who have subsequently gone onto university education. For mathematics I have tutored all five England A level exam boards (OCR, OCR-MEI, WJEC, AQA, Edexcel).
Over the dozens of students I have taught, I have built up a set of heuristics to assess, teach and improve.

About Me
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Outside of education I am currently renovating a narrowboat on the Grand Union Canal. In my spare time I cook a great deal, I read interesting books and I travel.