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Carabooda's tutors include a 10-year Singapore-trained primary teacher and WA-registered educator, a Master's-qualified engineer with university lecturing experience, multiple award-winning high-ATAR graduates (including a 99.25 ATAR Dux), experienced IELTS instructors, peer mentors, and youth leaders—plus specialists in maths, English, psychology, creative writing and science from top local universities.

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Bianca
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I aim to instil students with effective learning strategies. People aren’t taught how to effectively learn and study, and often they can feel lost. I firmly believe that understanding the best learning approach for oneself is just as important as understanding the schoolwork. I pride myself on being patient - I understand that everyone learns…
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A teacher should interact with their students. Make them feel comfortable while interacting. Resolve their issues. Understand their students’ perspective. Involve them in activities. Engage them in group communication and exercises. I can reach out to my students in every aspect for better understanding as well as their grades. They…
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Encouragement is the most important quality an english tutor should have. Doubt is unfortunately a huge negative factor when trying to learn so when a tutor shows a true belief to a student, confidence sparks & can fuel motivation. I believe a tutor is meant to empower their student to success By personal experience, I’ve had both, a tutors who…
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Every student is different and every student has different ways of understanding concepts. Some might learn them easily via a practical approach while others focus on the theory first. Understanding the weak points of a student and focusing on the strength of a student is very important for an english tutor to know. One of my strengths is a strong…
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A tutor should firstly be encouraging; to be more confident in their studies, for them to work hard and try their best, and to inspire a love of learning. Secondly, it is imperative to be understanding. Every student is unique, with varying goals, learning styles, and abilities, so learning should be tailored to each individual to ensure every…
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The most crucial things an english tutor can do for a student are academic supervision, human connection, and consistency, and the combination of these can possibly redefine a class, subject, or school more generally for a learner. A high level of energy and patience are two of my strongest assets. I strongly rely on these traits when I'm…
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Being patient and understand things at the student's level. Breaking problems into smaller chunks for them to digest it better. It is also essential for tutors to go through foundational subject matters so that their comprehension is deepened before moving on to more complext matters. My patience in listening to them and understanding what they do…
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1. Be understanding and compassionate, as we may not fully understand their scenario or their struggles. 2. Listening to students in regards to what their weakest areas are and implementing any methods they may want to use to address the issue (e.g. practice questions). 3. Understanding when it's the right time to say "lets move onto another…
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The most important thing an english tutor can do for a student is to help them find their own way to learn and overcome their difficulties. Having just graduated from school I am up to date with the current curriculum and education system, still have access to some year 12 textbooks and am dedicated to the field of education. Furthermore I am a…
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1.Ensuring learners you can help them and are also willing to do so. 2. Being both enthusiastic and encouraging 3. Being able to provide a constructive feedback 4. Giving students voice and choice concerning what they want to learn and how they want to learn it 5. Being patient and less pushy I build good rapport with students very easily…
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A tutor can bring in enjoyment into students even when they study. Most of the students don't enjoy study time the main reason being they don't understand certain concepts and find it hard. But an english tutor can explain that to students in a way they understand bring in interest thereby the enjoyment factor into it. I have great patience, good…
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I believe that being a good listener is an important trait that an english tutor needs. By being understanding and patient it gives the student more confidence when asking questions, therefor they have a better understanding of the subject! I believe my strengths in tutoring is that I’m a good listener, and can approach issues sensitively and in…
Te Huika
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Understanding each student's unique learning style, strengths, and weaknesses allows the tutor to tailor their approach to meet the student's specific needs. Encouraging and supporting students through challenges helps build their confidence and self-esteem, empowering them to tackle difficult tasks and believe in their abilities. Providing clear…
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The most important thing is to reassure a student that if they push themselves, they can achieve anything. Giving them that extra push to understand a topic in great detail and giving them that motivation to reach the top. I believe my greatest strength is patience. I am able to keep calm in situations and understand the difficulties another…
Krista
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I believe the most important thing is for the tutor to explain content in a way that fits the needs for the learner, and to be extremely patient with the student. the tutor should make the student feel comfortable, and that the learning is taking place within a safe space. patience with students Explaining concepts in various ways to fit the…
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A tutor’s role and objective is multi-faceted, I would consider the most important thing that an english tutor can do for their student is not only to reinforce and develop their knowledge and competency of a subject and help them academically, but also help foster in that student a confidence in themselves and a genuine interest in learning. I…
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Make them feel at ease and also help them understand that they can achieve what they want to, it's very important to encourage them to have confidence in themselves. Its also about making the subject interesting, so they want to learn. I get along with people and always try to understand the way they think. I also try make my teaching fun, as…
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Encourage, inspire and guide them so that they can achieve their potential I am passionate about helping students and I strive to encourage and inspire. I treat each student as a unique learner and make sure that my teaching is geared to their abilities and…
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To make them feel that they are progressing and of course to be able to help them understand their lessons. I am patient. My experience as an ESL teacher honed my patience in trying to explore all avenues to teach my students any…
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It's important to be understanding, to listen to what a student (or parent) wants to get out of tutoring, and to focus on the student's goals. It's also important to be clear in your teaching, and to come up with creative and interesting ways to teach each student, as every student is different. I have a very enthusiastic and positive approach to…
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The most important thing a student can get from an english tutor is unconditional support, and students should be assured that they have the right to ask their tutors any questions they may have. Good interacting skills and the way i adapt to every kid is what I consider as my strength. As every individual is different, patience is very much…
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Support their confidence, understand that struggles and mistakes are all an important part of the learning process and help them to feel comfortable with this. Also to help them enjoy learning! My enthusiasm, my ability to explain and model concepts at the right time and the right level. I have compassion and understanding of how children learn. I…
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Help them to understand and guide them in every way possible. Look for their development and learning curve and help them achieve the desired results. Patience Attention to detail Compassion and the ability to go a mile ahead and carry out further research on issues that require attention.love for young developing minds and spreading the…

Local Reviews

Only 3 sessions in but what a difference my son who was adamant he didn't want to do it now loves it and is so much more confident in class and doing homework. His homework results were always 55 percent and below now 90 and above. One happy parent and 15 year old! He said it's heaps easier one on one and how it's explained. I'm impressed.
Amanda Mignot

Inside CaraboodaTutoring Sessions

Content Covered

Year 5 student Alex worked through composite shapes and practiced worded area and perimeter questions, focusing on breaking down multi-step problems.

In Year 8, Jasmine tackled linear equations and explored non-linear equations, including graphing simple parabolas by hand.

Meanwhile, Year 9 student Lucas strengthened skills in expanding and simplifying quadratics and analysed probability using real-world data sets from tables and graphs.

Recent Challenges

In Year 9 mathematics, one student often avoided writing out full solutions—"he prefers to do it in his head," as a tutor noted—which led to confusion with negatives and errors when expanding brackets.

For a Year 11 learner, answers in trigonometry became tangled due to skipping the initial step of copying down formulas; this left working unanchored and made backtracking difficult.

Meanwhile, a Year 5 student misplaced her homework and struggled to keep materials organized, so time was lost searching instead of learning.

In Year 3 English, missed homework on word definitions meant gaps remained in vocabulary during sessions.

Recent Achievements

A tutor in Carabooda noticed one Year 10 student who used to skip steps when solving indices questions now writes every stage down, helping avoid simple conversion errors and showing a much more logical process.

In Year 8, another student who previously hesitated to ask for help has started talking through tricky volume problems out loud and checking their answers step by step, which wasn't happening before.

Meanwhile, a younger student surprised her tutor by independently setting her own learning goals at the start of the session and sticking to them—she finished all her planned work without reminders or prompts.

What they say about our tutoring

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All is going very well with Eden's tutoring.  We are very happy and our only regret is that we didn't do this earlier. Eden has said she has understood maths more with Calvin than in all her years at school. We look forward to seeing Eden's confidence in maths grow steadily and am pleased she is comfortable with Calvin's patience to keep questioning him in areas she struggles with.

Yes everything has started off great. Lachie really likes Suzan which has made it much easier and seems to be looking forward to Sunday tutoring. Thanks you very much on the email, much appreciated.

We started yesterday and Dylan and Erin both seemed happy and got along quite nicely.

English tutoring in Carabooda

Every student needs help sometimes, and often that help is needed in English. From basics like punctuation, spelling and grammar right up to narrative writing, proof reading and literary analysis. The Australian curriculum is thorough and there are various challenges that pop up for students over the years. At some point most students could use some help and an English tutor does just that - help! Ideally that help comes before the student has formed a negative cycle or fallen into a no-effort habit.

What we do is facilitate that help as a home service, we'll organise an in-home English tutor in Carabooda, or wherever it is convenient for you.

English Tutor Carabooda

A local Carabooda English tutor will come to you at a time and day of your chosing and offer tutoring help in a manner tailored for your child's unique situation. The first lesson works as a trial so that if your child doesn't connect well with the tutor, you don't have to pay and we can organise someone else for you.

The terms of service are super simple too. No contracts or minimum hours or cancellation fees or anything like that. You get charged a simple hourly rate. That's it. 

Give us a try, it's a risk-free proposal. 1300 975 754

See English tutors in suburbs around Carabooda

Local Spots for Tutoring

If you'd prefer not to have lessons at home, tutoring can also take place at a local library—such as Clarkson Library—or at your child's school (with permission), like Northshore Christian Grammar School.