Edmund

Currently based in Exeter, I have for health reasons interrupted my teacher training. However, I am still keen to help young people learn science and maths. My degree was in Natural Sciences, specialising in Materials Science, so my subject knowledge is broad.

Tutoring Experience

I have three years' experience conducting tutorials in Materials Science at Cambridge University, having myself studied Natural Sciences there, including Physics and Chemistry. I created my own worked solutions to the weekly problem sheets, so I was able to explain clearly the process of finding the answer from the starting information, and target my teaching to the steps my tutees had difficulties with. I also supplemented the university's teaching materials with physical models I produced myself. I was able to introduce some pupils to useful topics from A-level Further Mathematics, which they had not studied at school.

Tutoring Approach

I enjoy spotting, and encourage my pupils to spot, real-world applications of what we are studying. I am used to sympathetically coaching young people in unfamiliar skills, having also been the principal teacher for a university folk dance club for five years.