March 2021 - Page 2 of 3 - Learnmate Tutoring

The Nature And Function Of Conversational Strategies

We are already halfway through term 1, so that means students are starting to move towards their first SAC for the English language (if they haven’t had it already). Bearing this in mind and realising that a very high percentage of these tasks have a focus on spoken language, I thought I’d very quickly discuss… Continue reading The Nature And Function Of Conversational Strategies

What Are The Different Types of Learners?

Schooling is often presented in a ‘one-size-fits-all’ kind of manner – it’s very difficult for teachers to tailor teaching to a variety of styles. However, there’s a good reason why this doesn’t work for everyone: there are different learning styles. Different learners have a set of unique characteristics, which directly influences the ways these people… Continue reading What Are The Different Types of Learners?

Techniques for Analysing a Visual Text

The first section of the HSC English paper one requires students to analyse and answer questions on a range of texts, including poems, book extracts and visual texts. A visual text simply refers to some type of image, which can take the form of book covers, paintings, posters, movie frames, photographs and more. Typically, every… Continue reading Techniques for Analysing a Visual Text

The Importance of Practice

You only get out what you put into the VCE. Almost all of us have heard some variation of this idea from our teachers, tutors, parents and even friends. In this instance, what you are expected to ‘put in’ is hours of study and hard work. So why is it that two students who spend… Continue reading The Importance of Practice

Increase Your Knowledge by Reverse Engineering Work

VCE English Language – Reverse Engineer Your Work & Increase Your Knowledge! FIRSTLY, WATCH MY VIDEO HERE: https://youtu.be/ewHdQKpA0S4 In today’s post, I want to express to you how you can reverse engineer your learning and BECOME the teacher/assessor for a brief moment. What I mean by this is that rather than be prescribed set questions by a… Continue reading Increase Your Knowledge by Reverse Engineering Work

What To Do If You Get An Unsatisfactory Result In SAC

Hey all tutors! Part of the tutoring process is ensuring that your students get amazing results – that’s simply the reason as to why students/parents come to us! That’s it really. However, sometimes students may not get the results they want – why, you ask? There are a variety of factors, which I’ve addressed in… Continue reading What To Do If You Get An Unsatisfactory Result In SAC

Top 10 Best Techniques & Methods to Study

Repetition It has been said time and time again, repetition is key. For a piece of information to be absorbed by the brain, it typically takes three rounds of repetition. Re-writing notes by hand is the most effective study method, relative to only re-reading or re-typing them. Flash cards One of the best ways to… Continue reading Top 10 Best Techniques & Methods to Study

Parent’s Survival Guide – How to Remain Sane & Supportive!

So your child is coming into senior high school years and you’re perhaps starting to realise that as well as being a stressful, important and daunting time for them, it will be a big year for you as well. In my experience as a student, friend, brother and tutor, I have been on and seen… Continue reading Parent’s Survival Guide – How to Remain Sane & Supportive!

How to Teach Soft Skills to Students

What are soft skills and what makes them so important? Soft skills are often also referred to as ‘people skills’ or ‘emotional intelligence’. The term basically refers to a person’s ability to get along well with other people. These are in opposition to ‘hard skills’, which are skills that are easily quantifiable, such as data… Continue reading How to Teach Soft Skills to Students