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Tutors in Shellharbour include veteran classroom teachers with over 25 years' experience, HSC high achievers and subject duxes, a mathematics faculty medallist, seasoned private tutors across K–12, an award-winning science student, English specialists with postgraduate credentials, accomplished coaches and mentors, and educators with international teaching backgrounds and advanced degrees.

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Melanie

English Tutor Shellharbour, NSW
I believe an english tutor should be a role model. Where they should embody not only the study skills they teach but also be honest, patient and a motivator, all whilst being professional. Through this a student can grow both academically and as a person allowing them to reap the rewards more deeply. A tutors role is to listen and provide their…
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Bronte

English Tutor Warilla, NSW
As mentioned above, it is extremely important for tutors to enjoy the content they are teaching. These attitudes are projected onto the willingness of students to engage with the subject. In addition to this, it is important for tutors to create and maintain relationships with their students that emulate trust and belief in their abilities. A…
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Jennifer

English Tutor Windang, NSW
Provide a calm and supportive environment where learning is a partnership and where a strong relationship between tutor and learner is established. Having positive learning experiences are key to a child's success, along with making the learning fun and engaging. I have had 29 years experience as a classroom teacher. During this time I have…
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Aditya

English Tutor Primbee, NSW
I think close support and motivation especially during their examinations is crucial. Making the student sharp by regular homework/assignments and making them fall in love with the subject and eventually learning are very important in my opinion. Identifying students strengths/passion and grooming them is another very imperative factor. I think…
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Jordan

English Tutor Flinders, NSW
Listen to them, let them teach you about themselves, let them have a go and try things and trial and error. No matter how many times they get it wrong they will always learn more by putting the effort in rather than just being given the answer. Also find out what techniques help them learn best, some students can pick up things in different ways…
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Aaron

English Tutor Barrack Heights, NSW
To make sure the student always understands as they follow along and that its kept simple but relevent to what they need to know and understand. I am great at breaking things down and summarizing things in easy to understand visual and verbal ways, as many learn in different…
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Taleah

English Tutor Flinders, NSW
Reinforce confidence in said students own abilities, and help them to improve them. I am very patient and I'm willing to sit down with the student until they understand a certain…
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Molly

English Tutor Albion Park Rail, NSW
As someone who has personally had an english tutor in recent years, I understand the most important things a tutor can do for a student is being patient and understanding. Being able to adapt learning styles and being flexible with each child's different pace, is an important aspect of tutoring. I will put in lots of hard work to constantly…
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Chloe

English Tutor Albion Park Rail, NSW
To ensure they feel safe and comfortable. This can be achieved by removing any pressure they may feel about their grades and building a genuine rapport. - Analysing each individual learning style and need. -Fun and engaging lessons. - The ability to improvise and work off the plan, if and when…
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Lily

English Tutor Albion Park, NSW
The most important things an english tutor can do for the student is to really get to know the strengths and weaknesses of the student. In identifying the strengths you can use these to help improve the weaker areas of learning. My strengths are being a patient and well resourced tutor. I’m finishing hsc last year I am up to date with knowledge…
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Brooke

English Tutor Koonawarra, NSW
Build their confidence and show them that they can exprience success. So many students who struggle think something is wrong with them, however some students just need more time to learn and more practise with certain concepts. Showing many ways to work out answers and to learn is important too because no two students are the same. I am…
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Pierre Jan

English Tutor
Although my goal is to see them be at the top of their class, it is more important to see improvements in their tutor lessons and use the knowledge I give them at school to refine their skills I am very easy going and I have a lot of patience. So I am good with kids that are struggling to understand. I use the 4 predominant learning styles:…

Local Reviews

We've seen such a positive change in our daughter's approach to maths since she started working with Tala. She was struggling and losing confidence in year 7, but Tala's been incredible at helping her understand the basics and build up from there. Our daughter now actually looks forward to her lessons and maths thanks to Tala.
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Inside ShellharbourTutoring Sessions

Content Covered

Year 9 student Molly revised the financial maths topic in preparation for a test, focusing on applying formulas to pay calculations and converting between hourly and weekly rates, then moved to exploring nervous system structure and brain lobes.

Year 10 student completed a session on trigonometry by practising the sine rule and solving area problems for non-right-angled triangles using worked examples.

For Year 11, Emma started Standard Maths with an introduction to compound interest calculations and discussed key syllabus points relevant to upcoming assessments.

Recent Challenges

In Year 10, exam stress led to mistakes in familiar content—"she lets her stress get the better of her," one tutor noted, which meant errors crept into algebra that she usually handled with ease.

During Year 7 trigonometry, skipping clear written steps and not labelling working made it harder to spot where calculations went wrong or to review answers later.

In a recent senior revision session, hesitation about making guesses slowed progress on unfamiliar problems; more time was spent waiting for confirmation than practicing reasoning through uncertainty.

When reading multi-step questions in financial maths, rushing led to misinterpreting key information and missing out on full marks.

Recent Achievements

One Shellharbour tutor noticed a Year 11 student who previously struggled to show her working in maths now clearly lays out each step when tackling z-score problems, making fewer errors and checking her answers independently.

In Year 8 science, another student has started asking targeted questions about electron shells—last term she rarely spoke up, but now actively seeks clarification to close knowledge gaps.

Meanwhile, a Year 6 learner who used to skip over tricky geometry tasks recently applied earlier formula work to solve new area questions without prompting, finishing all ten problems accurately on her own.

What they say about our tutoring

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I have found your entire service from the first contact professional and friendly and will recommend both your organisation and Andrew to anyone who requires a maths tutor. . As I said earlier, I found Andrew both  diligant and effective in the few sessions we were able to fit in. Jesse's main comment was that 'He makes everything so easy to understand' which is really what tutoring is about.

Thank you for your email. Andrew has settled nicely with Phal and is engaged and enjoying the experience. Phal has spent the last few weeks getting a hold on where Andrew is up to with his maths and I am sure it will continue to be rewarding for him.

Darius is fantastic. He is extremely dedicated and well mannered. He often stays more than 1 hour to make sure Harry understands everything they have covered. Harry has become enthusiastic toward maths and he can already see improvements. Thank you so much for referring Darius, he has been a life saver!

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 Shellharbour Library—or at your child's school (with permission), like Shellharbour Public School.