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Simon
- Hourly rate £20
- Response Time 24h
- Number of students 13
£20/hr
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- Design
Enthusiastic gap-year student offering DT theory tuition and coursework guidance for KS3 and GCSE
Lesson location
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At Simon's house: Dartford
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at your home or in a public place : will travel up to 30 km from Dartford
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About Simon
I graduated from Eton College in 2019 with 4 A*/A grades in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Design Technology. I have been involved with tuition since 2011, starting out with 11+ tuition for all subjects and moving into GCSE and IGCSE maths from 2014. Since 2017, I have been mentoring students at Holyport College in Maths and made the joint leader of the Aspirations project.
Outside of the classroom, I have been involved with a range of extra-curricular activities including international rowing, music performance and composition, and stage management in theatres. These have taught me self-discipline and self-awareness and were instrumental in my academic success.
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I teach to engage students with the learning material to promote effective independent study. As an open-minded and creative individual, I'm aware of how students differ in their ways of absorbing and processing information. From the first lesson onwards, I determine how the student learns and offer methods that complement it.
I also aim to develop two characteristics which help students succeed: self-discipline and self-awareness. The former is necessary for creating a studying pattern, and the latter is necessary for the student to asses their own progress. These are essential for effective learning - in 60 minutes of work (not necessarily done at once) a student can learn more than in 2+ ineffective hours of work.
I believe I can not only improve your ability, but also your future education.
Recommendations
Recommendations come from relatives, friends and acquaintances of the teacher
Simon is diligent and dedicated young person who is committed to whatever is assigned to him.
He his easy to get along with and adapt quickly to any environment he finds himself.
He is amiable, witty, bright and passionate about Maths, Physics and Design Technology.
I will recommend Simon for this job.
I hope this helps.Simon is a honest, hard working young man who enjoys transferring his knowledge to other students and help then as well.
I have known Simon since the beginning of his design studies when he was 14 and have taught him during both his IGCSE (2015-2017) and A-level (2017-2019) in Product Design (each being the highest level of engineering and design-focused qualification for his age). The work Simon did in the Design Schools exemplifies what we, the design faculty at Eton, hope students would work towards in our discipline. He regularly made the links and distinctions between his natural science and mathematic studies and his studies of materials science, technology and design in the Design Schools. He frequently worked collaboratively with peers both within and without the taught curriculum to develop his design and engineering projects. An example of this was when he covered a wave concept in his physics class which touched on his musical interests and thought he would be able to create a future resource for his teacher. In the little free time he had, he created a physical rig to emulate an electrical guitar. His rig demonstrated the harmonic link between different materials, geometries, pickup positions and frequencies whilst providing Simon with excellent experience in applying understandings of natural science.
Within the curriculum, Simon approached his studies extremely carefully and consistently aimed for the highest possible result. He has worked to develop what appeared to be a particular affinity for the subject knowledge and constantly pushed himself far further than the confines of one syllabus. As part of our course too, Simon worked with a number of companies to contribute to their product development. These included work with some peers from other local schools and with Dyson (a nationally renowned British technology company), an industrial design project for Bang & Olufsen (a European high-end audio-visual electronics company) and some basic rigid sail modelling for an afternoon with the British America’s Cup Team, Ben Ainslie Racing. Throughout all of these projects Simon showed a real ability to weave together the industrial knowledge he gained with the theoretical, natural and materials science we covered in school.
Outside of the curriculum, Simon was a key member of our STEM committee who worked towards the promotion of a unified and coherent structure for STEM subjects to collaborate more closely and publish work more widely and increasingly rigorously. In this capacity he worked with teachers and students to both manage and administer events, research and projects within the school community. Separately, Simon was selected as the Keeper (Head) of Design for his outstanding commitment and contribution to the Design Schools. Alongside his academic standing, he was selected for this role for his consistent involvement with the Engineering and Design Society (where he also sat on the committee) and in his support of younger students.
All of the above goes some of the way to showing how supportive and enthusiastic Simon was about his studies and the community around him. Since his last session this year supporting the young (12 year old) students, who come to visit the Design Schools for an afternoon of design and engineering project work, it struck me that future sessions would not be as enjoyable or quite as beneficial for the students without him.View more recommendations
Rates
Hourly rate
- £20
Pack prices
- 5h: £95
- 10h: £185
online
- £20/h
Travel
- + £5
Details
Travel:
I am located in Dartford, but happy to travel into London and around Kent/Bromley.
Cancellation Policy:
If no notice is given within 48 hrs of the lesson starting time, then you will be charged for the lesson. This may be waived in emergency situations.
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