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Scarborough's tutors include a 25-year primary teacher and enrichment leader, a university lecturer with a PhD and TESOL IV, an ATAR 99.8+ medical science scholar, Kip McGrath maths specialist, seasoned K–12 coaches and teacher aides, peer mentors in STEM and English, and passionate science graduates pursuing education degrees.

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Pia

English Tutor Scarborough, QLD
Give them Confidence. Encouragement. Excitement to learn. The comfort and courage to make mistakes and to learn from them in not just academics, but in their development is something that I believe in. I am warm and approachable and yet firm when the need calls for it. I try to find a way that the child understands and not just the…
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Jennifer

English Tutor Redcliffe, QLD
Give them confidence in their own abilities Help them learn the material they need to know Teach them how to learn independently I have excellent knowledge in my field, having researched and taught as a computational biologist for over 20 years. I also genuinely like and care about students, and am able to adapt my teaching methods to their…
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Zarina

English Tutor Margate, QLD
Take into account their individual personality and situation and listen from the heart and apply teaching methods in an enjoyable way to benefit the student Willing to learn , love kids , enjoy helping others Patient, positive, love to laugh, young at…
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Joe

English Tutor Woody Point, QLD
It all comes back to confidence for me, when a student is confident in a subject again it can then translate into other areas of academia and even life. I firmly believe all students are capable of extraordinary feats and the support I show for my students allows for them to start believing that as well. My principal strength in tutoring is my…
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Reagan

English Tutor Mango Hill, QLD
To help them understand the concept of what they are learning. Rather than just achieving high results, helping them understand the concepts of what they are learning will aid with advancing onto more difficult studies in the future. My strengths as a tutor would be being able to explain concepts to the student at a level they can understand and…
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Marian

English Tutor North Lakes, QLD
The most important thing an english tutor can do for a student is to make them stand on their own feet. A tutor should be able to make their mentee confident in learning, understanding, and applying their lessons on their own. It's also important for a tutor to establish a good rapport with the student and make them feel comfortable. I always…
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CHRISTINE

English Tutor Margate, QLD
To believe in them and boost their confidence in themselves. A few successes can go a long way to encourage a can-do attitude. Encouragement and positive reinforcement are critical to building a belief in your own abilities. Patience and a willingness to adapt my approach to suit the student. Every student has a different learning style. I…
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Emily- Mia

English Tutor Rothwell, QLD
The obvious answer is having the knowledge to pass that onto the children you tutor, but also the strength of kindness and understanding. I'm a very bubbly and uplighting person, I do whatever I can to make a safe space and put a smile on children's faces. Professional wise Math's and Science have always come super easy to me, those were the…
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Cecille

English Tutor Rothwell, QLD
There are many things I consider that are important when it comes to tutoring such as active listening, clear communication and patience. But personally, the most important to me is helping build the child's confidence about the subject or topic they are struggling with. As a university student myself, I understand how hard it is to remain…
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Emily

English Tutor Mango Hill, QLD
To properly help them and support them in ways that they need. I am a caring individual with no bias or judgement and truly just want to help…
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Devie

English Tutor Mango Hill, QLD
The role of an english tutor is to provide the appropriate resources and teaching strategies based on the student's learning ability. Additionally, a tutor should display compassion, empathy and patience especially when students encounter topics that they find difficult. It is the duty of the tutor to ensure the student can be assisted in a safe…
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Peter

English Tutor Mango Hill, QLD
I believe the most significant thing an english tutor can do is instill self belief and show genuine care for the success of the student. This will give the student the confidence to succeed academically, meaning the tutoring process has been successful. I believe I have strong speaking skills and I am also patient. Additionally I believe I put…

Local Reviews

Getting started was very easy . A tutor was assigned to us very quickly and contacted us quickly and our first session happened a few days later. My son and the tutor are getting along well and so far things seem to be going well and my son is getting the help he needs.
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Inside ScarboroughTutoring Sessions

Content Covered

Year 11 student Libby worked on her PSMT, using algebraic modelling and linear relationships to design a scaled logo plotted on a graph.

Year 10 Tom covered factorising and expanding algebraic expressions, then practised plotting points and finding gradients and intercepts on the Cartesian plane.

Meanwhile, Year 7 Jalen focused on creating and solving algebraic expressions from word problems, as well as practising substitution—including more challenging questions with powers and square roots.

Recent Challenges

A Year 10 student, when differentiating, often made small sign errors—talking out loud helped him catch some mistakes, but missing steps in working hid others.

For a Year 11 calculus topic, uncertainty about the chain rule led to hesitancy; extra practice between sessions could help bridge these gaps.

Meanwhile, a Year 7 student showed over-reliance on her calculator and struggled with rounding and significant figures—limiting her confidence for non-calculator tests.

In primary (Year 3), one student repeatedly forgot homework and struggled to bring required materials, leading to lost time re-covering basics instead of moving forward.

Recent Achievements

One Scarborough tutor noticed a Year 9 student who used to hesitate with indices now working through them confidently after targeted practice—she even tackled circle area and circumference problems on her own by lesson's end.

Another win came from a high schooler in Year 11, who at first stumbled with the product and quotient rules but now completes differentiation tasks without help, remembering previous methods and asking for extra challenges.

In primary, Melody, once shy and reluctant to speak up, is now volunteering answers aloud—even when unsure—and recently finished her math homework early each night before leaving her book at school.

What they say about our tutoring

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Hi, Ruhail has been great and his flexibility has helped enormously. He spent 3.5 hours with Casey last weekend as she had a test she was very concerned about. Casey did much better in her test than she would have done and we are already over the moon. Please pass on our thanks.

Yes, we are very pleased that Sophia likes Rebecca and the tutoring seems to be going well. Rebecca obviously has patience and takes the time to explain things so Sophia can follow them and work through the maths, which is exactly what we wanted. The problem with the school is they move along so fast that there is not enough practice time, and we (the parents) are not familiar with what they teach so we can't just help out quickly; we have to re-learn it ourselves first, and then we're probably not good at explaining clearly. That's why it is great having Rebecca who can obviously explain things in a way Sophia understands. The main thing is that Sophia sees herself as 'Ëśno good at maths', but when something is explained so she understands it, she is very pleased when she can get the right answers. A lot of it is a confidence thing I think, and also her school maths teacher has been quite negative about her work; so hopefully the tutoring will rebuild some of Sophia's general confidence over time, which would be great. Sophia will never be a star at maths, but if she can just get passes instead of always negative marks and comments from school, we will be quite happy with that. Sophia is very good at English/Hums and art; maths is her weak area, and we are very pleased (and actually surprised) that she is sitting through an hour of maths tutoring each week without complaint. We did not know how it would go; we tried one other tutor a few months ago , a retired male maths teacher - and she hated it. So this time we are very happy.

So far so good with Tim. Tim is now tutoring both my kids and both are really happy with him. Results will show in the months to come. It is early days but we are very happy so far.

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 Redcliffe Library—or at your child's school (with permission), like Southern Cross Catholic College.