Annoa

My teaching style

I believe teaching is all about understanding your student, building trust with them and helping them build confidence in themselves. I focus first on understanding where my student is at – particularly their confidence re the subject in question – before communicating with them my own personal experiences with their subject and how I overcame them, and understanding what their goals are. I believe that every student can achieve extremely highly and so I am glad to see students set high goals. For those that are more modest in their goal-setting, I focus on building their confidence through the teaching process to encourage them to shift their own goal post a little further. I believe in positive feedback and solo work, as well as collaborative work. In sessions, I will set tasks for them to do themselves and then work with them through their answers to understand their thought process and help them break down their own understanding to allow for self-corrections, as well as my corrections. I always end lessons on a positive note – making sure that students articulate everything they have achieved in the lesson so they are aware that they are constantly improving, especially through their mistakes. I will set homework tasks and my goal is for every student to meet, or ideally, outperform their goal.