Tutor profile - Sabina

Sabina is a Qualified Class Teacher with 14 years of experience of working in a primary school . She loves teaching Maths and English and has supported her pupils to make accelerated progress using her unique teaching methods.

Experience:
• Sabina is currently a Year 4 teacher and a middle leader and has a wealth of experience and knowledge of teaching Maths, English and Reading.
• She has 4 years of experience of teaching in KS1 and 10 years experience of teaching in KS2.
• She has developed excellent behaviour management strategies and always hold high expectations of all the children that she teaches and celebrated their achievements and success at each step.
• She plans her lessons with clear objectives and steps to success to ensure that there is successful learning and progression.
• She has a lot of experience of working with children with SEN and has many strategies to support their needs from using task planners, to widget and scaffolding their learning at each stage.

Expertise/ teaching method:
• Sabina has an aptitude for making learning very clear and exciting.
• She always plans with the child in mind and personalises lessons to meet their needs and address the gaps they have in the subject.
• Her wealth of experience has given her extensive knowledge of varying subjects and especially a knack for teaching Maths.

Unique teaching method
Sabina's lessons follow a unique lesson design enabling children to make accelerated progress:
• Recap learning to ensure children have good retrieval from previous lessons
• Introduce new learning and go through vocabulary needed for the lesson
• Clear modelling (through visual and equipment) so that pupils gain deeper and clear understanding of concepts especially in Maths and English Grammar
• Have a go! – Pupils have a go with support and consolidate learning
• Apply – using reasoning questions to apply new learning to a real life contexts
• Assess – How much has pupil progressed within the lesson? Can pupils apply learning to test questions?