Subjects & Programmes
Tutoring works best when it connects directly with the course a student is taking. I use the student’s curriculum, classroom work and upcoming assessments as the context, rather than creating a separate science course alongside school. The balance will be different for every student: one may need to rebuild foundations, another may need to prepare for an exam, and another may understand the content well but need much more precision in the way they apply and communicate it.
Less memorising. More understanding.
IB Diploma
We work on understanding how biological ideas connect, interpreting data, evaluating investigations and applying knowledge in unfamiliar contexts. I also provide ethical guidance for Biology Internal Assessments and Extended Essays.
Students work on making sense of the models behind the chemistry, not just completing calculations, and on connecting explanations, evidence and chemical reasoning. Ethical guidance is also available for Chemistry Internal Assessments.
ESS brings science, people and environmental decision-making together. We work on interpreting information, seeing connections between systems and perspectives, and building responses that are supported by evidence.
AS & A-Level Biology
We work on the detail students need to know, practical and data-handling skills, and the ability to apply biological ideas and explain them clearly.
GCSE / IGCSE Science
Support is available for Biology and Chemistry, including the Biology and Chemistry components of Combined or Coordinated Science. We work from the student’s specification and school course, clearing up difficult ideas and using questions to make sure the understanding holds when it has to be applied. Because Combined and Coordinated Science structures vary, send the examination board or relevant topics with your enquiry so I can confirm suitability.
IB Middle Years Programme Science
MYP Science can look quite different from one school to another, so tutoring is built around the student’s own units, school curriculum and assessment expectations. We use the science they are learning in school to strengthen understanding, inquiry, reasoning and communication. The aim is not simply to finish the current unit, but to help the student become better at thinking scientifically.
Ontario Secondary Science
Ontario students are supported within the course they are taking at school. I work with Grade 9–10 Science and senior Biology and Chemistry, using class materials, teacher expectations and upcoming assessments to decide what to focus on. Sometimes that means strengthening the foundations needed for senior science; at other times it means working through demanding Biology or Chemistry concepts, calculations and explanations at the level the course requires.
Across all programmes
Tutoring can include learning new or difficult content, practising questions, preparing for assessments and improving study approaches. Students who have changed schools or curricula may also need to rebuild particular foundations. We deal with what is getting in the way without treating a current gap as a limit on what the student can achieve.
Guidance for assessed work supports the student’s thinking. Decisions, analysis and final submitted work remain the student’s own.
The next step
Find out what happens after an enquiry, how the Meet & Greet works and how lessons begin.