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Ethan C

£29/hr

UCL Student and Science Teacher at Nord Anglia

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Ethan is a friendly Science tutor with four years' experience tutoring Science and Biology to GCSE and Chemistry to A Level. He can also help with UCAS preparation.

A bit about Ethan C

I’m a Nord Anglia Course Manager (#1 in the UK for A Levels) and Science Teacher with a wealth of experience teaching WJEC + Eduqas GCSE Biology and Chemistry, and A Level Chemistry. I trained to teach at a Top 20 School for GCSE Results in the UK, at Community Schools Trust. Having taught for nearly 4 years, (most recently Chemistry KS3 at Nord Anglia), I have ample of experience in ensuring every child and young adult exceeds their academic capabilities. I am currently studying on the BA Education, Society and Culture course at UCL (#1 in the world for Education). I am safeguarding level 3 trained and DBS enhanced checked. UCAS Preparation - particularly G5 universities. WJEC and Eduqas Chemistry and Maths GCSE. WJEC A Level Chemistry and Biology. Open to other exam boards for maths. Topic Teaching and Exam Based Learning: Prior to the lesson - you will be sent lesson slides. It will be optional for the student to use this as pre-reading prior to the lesson as I fully understand this may be challenging for some. A minority of learners prefer this, as they are able to make use of the lesson through instead of using as ‘teaching at you from the basics’, learners are able to just ask to clarify concepts they find tricky. Please note lesson slides include specification points direct from the exam board and a thorough concept follow through of each specification point. A Level, I have already prepared for WJEC and use what I have used for the 4 years. During the lesson: - We will start with a short warm welcome and general chat to calm any nerves and build a strong professional relationship to ensure you are comfortable within the lesson. -If lesson slides have been studied prior, we will go through any concepts not understood. -We annotate the slides together and this is sent and used as the students notes. Students never have to produce notes as this is all provided. This ensures efficient use of study time. I provide ‘closed learning’ by consistently stating to what extent someone needs to understand the theory to be able to access the questions and not going beyond the specification. This is where most students have difficulty. -Students will then be tested shortly through quick questions. Quick questions ensure learning is understood. -Past paper questions - often A level learned grasp content and request just to go through past paper questions. If this is the request, this is fine. All lesson slides have every single type of past paper question, particularly at A Level, I have been very meticulous and have gone right back through legacy papers. I do not include repeats of questions. -Any theory that is not understood is broken down and notes are sent to the learner after the lesson. -What you will find from PPQs, is that they ask questions in the same way and they need to be answered in the same way to achieve full marks. We go through PPQs using the notes first to ensure we practice exam technique. We do every type of question where the student makes notes on their question. Exam technique is answering how the examiner would like the questions to be asked. In every case we need to answer this way to avoid losing marks. (timed during exam season). We analyse why the examiner would like the answer to be written in this way, as this is the high frequency error of losing marks. This is usually the only reason why some students require tutoring. This is what makes an effective tutor. -Revision strategy chat concludes the lesson - including how much time is being used revising a week etc is discussed and including any questions at the end. Revision strategy is adapted if it is ineffective.

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Teaches

Subject Rate
Science
Level
Primary
 £29/hr
Science
Level
KS3
 £29/hr
Biology
Level
KS3
 £29/hr
Chemistry
Level
GCSE
 £29/hr
Chemistry
Level
A-Level
 £29/hr
Chemistry
Level
KS3
 £29/hr
UCAS Preparation
Level
UCAS Preparation
 £25/hr
Maths
Level
GCSE
 £29/hr
Maths
Level
KS3
 £29/hr
Maths
Level
Primary
 £29/hr
Biology
Level
A-Level
 £29/hr

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