Our teachers

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Qualification: Bachelor of Education, University of Canberra

Location: Canberra, ACT

Sector experience: Preschool, Primary tuition

Speciality: Primary English and Maths, particularly early reading.

Length of teaching experience: since 2012

Curriculum familiarity: ACARA

Preferred educational theories/strategies: Phonics-based reading strategies, general multimodal strategies and scaffolding with specialised adjustment for dyslexia and dyscalculia.

Lesson rates per hour (AUD): $55

Additional discounts: Referral & 40 minute lessons discounts

Availability: Monday to Friday, 4-7pm

Likes/Interests: Spending time with my children, reading the classics, sewing, nature walks, gardening and land regeneration.

Quotable quote: “Educational goals are best met by first increasing self-belief.” 

Qualification:  Diploma of Teaching (Armidale Teacher’s College 1970-72)

Location: Canberra, ACT

Sector experience: Secondary School, Secondary tuition
Speciality:  Secondary Mathematics, up to Year 10.
Length of teaching experience: since 1973
Curriculum familiarity:  ACARA
Lesson rates per hour (AUD): $50
Additional discounts: Sibling & referral discounts
Availability:  Most days except Sunday by mutual negotiation with students.
Likes/Interests:  Teaching. My family, including 12 grandchildren. Reading, craft, gardening.

Quotable quote:  

“Seeing children grow in confidence and potential is a teacher’s greatest reward.”

Qualification: Master of Social Work, Postgraduate Diploma in Education (CUHK), Bachelor of Arts in Communication (HKPOLYU)

Location: Adelaide, SA
Sector experience: Primary and Secondary School tuition, Adult conversational English
Speciality:  Primary to Year 10 Maths
Length of teaching experience: since 2012
Curriculum familiarity:  ACARA
Lesson rates per hour (AUD): $50 (primary), $60 (secondary)
Additional discounts: Referral discount, 

40 min lesson discount, first lesson discount, siblings TBC

Availability: Monday to Friday 3pm-8pm, daytime lessons upon request
Likes/Interests: Hiking, watching movies, baking
Quotable quote: “Education is not the filling of the pot, but the lighting of a fire.”-Yeats  

Qualification: TESOL Qualification, Teflen Training College

Location: Canberra, ACT
Sector experience: Adult Education
Speciality:  General TESOL
Length of teaching experience: since 2019
Curriculum familiarity:  CEFR
Lesson rates per hour (AUD): $40 (group), $50 (individual)
Additional discounts: Referral discount

Availability: Monday to Friday, 6pm-9pm
Preferred educational theories/strategies:  Communicative Approach with explicit instruction of grammar, multimodal strategies, links to first language where possible.
Likes/Interests: Spending time with my children, reading the classics, sewing, nature walks, gardening and land regeneration.

Quotable quote: “Educational goals are best met by first increasing self-belief.”