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What do I enjoy most about tutoring? ๐
Observing the student's improvement, progress and their understanding. Being able to help students to understand their topic and achieve their learning goals.My Strengths as Tutor ๐ช
Patience, supportive, enthusiastic, inspiring, teaching using different strategies based upon the student e.g. if they aural, visual, tactile or kinaesthetic. My experience in teaching as a primary school teacher.Most important things I can do for a student ๐
Be patient, understanding, to believe in the student and not to compare them with anyone else. To be willing to try different ways of explaining something if it doesn't work the first way.Subjects Tutored ๐
Tutoring students in ๐ฆ ๐ง
- year 1
- year 2
About Samina
Experienced and Versatile Primary School Teacher
This tutor brings a wealth of experience as a provisionally registered primary school teacher, adept at teaching the Australian and Victorian curriculum across Maths, English, Science, Humanities, Arts, and STEAM subjects. Her diverse background includes working with students from Foundation to Grade 6, ensuring each child reaches their full potential through tailored lesson plans and engaging instructional methods.
Specialist in Digital Technologies and Coding
With a Master''s in Teaching and hands-on experience in digital technologies, this tutor excels in making complex concepts accessible. She has led coding camps where children learn to create games using block code and build robots. Her expertise extends to algorithmic thinking, conditionals, loops, and moreโskills that are essential for the future workforce.
Inclusive Educator with a Heart for Special Needs
Demonstrating a strong commitment to inclusivity, this tutor has worked extensively with children who have special needs such as ADHD, autism, cerebral palsy, and hearing impairments. Her approach ensures that every student feels valued and included in the learning process. Additionally, she has volunteered as an English tutor for refugees and migrants, helping them integrate into new cultural settings while improving their language skills.
Recent Tutoring Comments:
Can include letters to spell and make new words. Very good with blending sounds.
Can include letters to spell and make new words. Very good with blending sounds.
Keeps guessing words rather than looking at the word. She is mixing up v with w. Needs to work on blends and digraphs as well as split digraphs e_e.
Can sound out CVC words and spell. Was able to read alot of Blends and digraphs, could understand that when the onset letter changed how it changed the word if the ...
Can sound out CVC words and spell. Was able to read alot of Blends and digraphs, could understand that when the onset letter changed how it changed the word if the rime stayed the same. E.g. Game, same, tame etc.
Needs to stop guessing and break down the word and sound it out. Writing capital letters at the end of the word. Recognition of 'j'.
Is good at hearing and spelling CVC words. Reading Dr Seuss Wocket in my Pocket more fluently. More enthusiastic about reading.
Is good at hearing and spelling CVC words. Reading Dr Seuss Wocket in my Pocket more fluently. More enthusiastic about reading.
Confusing the sounds for v and w when sounding out to spell.
Blend sounds well. Reading Marvin K Mooney Go now book fluently.
Blend sounds well. Reading Marvin K Mooney Go now book fluently.
Needs to look at the word and break it into component parts to read and not guess. Getting confused with the W and the V sounds, writing d, f p and z lower case letters back to front.