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Delacombe's tutors feature a primary school teacher and coordinator with international experience, a university medallist in English with advanced writing credentials, a VCE Dux across four subjects, an Education Support-trained learning mentor, experienced private maths and science tutors—including Olympiad achievers—and peer mentors skilled in working with diverse learners from early years to senior secondary.

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Jared

English Tutor Mount Pleasant, VIC
Guidance. It's always guidance. Tutors facilitate learning and help activates students' potential. :) Tutors receive all the questions most of the students don't ask in class, and I find it amazing because real learning happens between tutors and students. I already know how to handle them and I can give excellent activities that they can enjoy…
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James

English Tutor Bakery Hill, VIC
The most important things an english tutor can do for a student are to be honest, collaborate in their learning journey, and give them learning strategies. Students benefit from having a tutor they trust who is honest with them on their current strengths and weaknesses and who also inspires confidence that the weaknesses can be overcome.…
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Carrie

English Tutor Ballarat East, VIC
The most important thing to keep in mind when tutoring in my opinion is to help them gain confidence & enjoyment in the subject. If a student believes they are bad at a subject, they often won't try as hard because they view it as pointless. Confirmation bias can also lead to only noticing when they make mistakes, meaning they won't recognise the…
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Shirish

English Tutor Ballarat East, VIC
Give them the time and knowledge that a regular school teacher cannot as they're taking responsibility of a larger class, unlike a private tutor who teaches one on one in a more friendly home environment. My strength is my strong math and engineering background and my many years of experience as a private math tutor as well as university teacher…
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Tanika

English Tutor Mount Helen, VIC
Listen to exactly what they need help with and provide constructive feedback and appreciate all efforts. Continual encouragement and support so that the student can reach their goals and feel proud. Breaking thought processes down to better understand and explain the question or answer. Patience. Organisation. Creating a safe space to ask…
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Yusra Begum

English Tutor Mount Helen, VIC
Trying to eradicate the fear or hopelessness that the students feel when they cannot overcome an "obstacle". I am a great listener. I try to find the root of issue and get to know about the problem from the student's…
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Muskan

English Tutor Ballarat, VIC
The tutor must understand the learning and understanding power of the children and how they can digest in the single session of tutoring. The tutor should be a good friend for a student. My strengths are that i am patience and I know how to handle a child and make them understand in the easy way. I have quality of good time management so my…
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Zayda

English Tutor Canadian, VIC
The most important thing an english tutor can do a student is listen to them and their needs as well as create an environment whether that's in person or online that is safe, supportive and positive for them to learn and thrive. I have a very personable, open and kind approach when interacting with staff, parents and most importantly students so I…
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Isaac

English Tutor Ballarat East, VIC
The most important things an english tutor can do for a student is provide the with the strategies, tools, and perhaps most importantly: confidence they need to succeed and thrive in their studies. I believe my strengths include my ability to effectively communicate and teach important concepts and skills to my students. In particular I pride…
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Yongjing

English Tutor Ballarat North, VIC
Helping the student find their best way of thinking and study techniques that could benefit them most in the future. Being patient and cautious regarding every question the student might have. I am an empathetic and patient person who loves to communicate and help other students with all my abilities. I am also good at finding study techniques…
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Claye

English Tutor Mount Helen, VIC
Help the student reach their maximum potential in the area being studied. Be persistent and willing to persevere to maximise learning. Develop good morale with the student and be enthusiastic around them. My strengths are having high patience, ability to explain things clearly to different education levels and a passion in helping…

Local Reviews

Teagan is wonderful, polite, punctual and Archer is very happy so far. We are very lucky.
Mel

Inside DelacombeTutoring Sessions

Content Covered

Year 7 student Greta focused on negative numbers, including multiplication and division, and worked through algebra problems involving powers of small integers using step-by-step examples.

Year 10 student Aiden practiced solving linear simultaneous equations by substitution and revisited simplifying and rationalising surds from a previous test paper.

Meanwhile, Year 11 student Zara covered trigonometry concepts such as SOH CAH TOA, sine rule, and cosine rule, tackling practice questions with calculator use for accuracy.

Recent Challenges

In Year 11 Specialist Maths, a student's notes revealed persistent confusion with induction proofs and negated statements; as one tutor noted, "there is a serious level of misunderstanding of how induction and negated statements work." This led to repeated errors during problem sets.

In Year 8 Maths, reliance on visual aids for fractions persisted even as problems became more complex, making it harder to solve tasks like drawing sixths or managing equivalent fractions without diagrams.

Meanwhile, in Year 4 English, reluctance to show written working made it difficult for teachers to pinpoint the exact cause of errors—sometimes whole steps were missing from answers.

Recent Achievements

One Delacombe tutor noticed a big shift in a Year 9 student who, after previously making frequent errors with exponent laws, now works through non-standard equations with far more independence and accuracy.

A recent high school session saw another student confidently solve complex probability problems using tables and arrangements—something they struggled to set up without guidance just weeks ago.

Meanwhile, in Year 4, a student who used to guess when asked about fractions now carefully groups and counts items to find answers, moving from impulsive guessing to methodical problem-solving.

What they say about our tutoring

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Both Amber and myself are very happy with the first two lessons Kamen has given.He has a great way of making Amber at ease with the learning process and we look forward to seeing her maths improve.

Ben continues to have great rapport with Kai and I think he even looks forward to the lessons which I can tell give him much more confidence.

Sarah is finding the tutoring with Shabana very helpful. Sarah has has three tutoring sessions and Shabana has been explaining concepts or questions which Sarah found confusing. I really like the way Shabana interacts with Sarah and how she keeps reminding her about the importance of practising.

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 Sebastopol Library—or at your child's school (with permission), like Lumen Christi School.