My Philosophy
Majority of children view school subjects purely as an academic affair. They are not able to connect the knowledges they have learnt in school with their daily life experiences, resulting in them gradually losing interest in studies and failed to achieve better grades.
Keeping the above in mind, I relates the formulas, rules and concepts with our daily life experience, enabling my students to have a more meaningful learning with familiar contexts, helping them to have a much better understanding and making their learning in an easier way rather than pure memorising.
Majority of children view school subjects purely as an academic affair. They are not able to connect the knowledges they have learnt in school with their daily life experiences, resulting in them gradually losing interest in studies and failed to achieve better grades.
Keeping the above in mind, I relates the formulas, rules and concepts with our daily life experience, enabling my students to have a more meaningful learning with familiar contexts, helping them to have a much better understanding and making their learning in an easier way rather than pure memorising.
Personal Details & Experience
Name: Jonathan Tan
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Occupation: Full time tutor
Years of Experience: 24 years (12 years Part Time, 12 years Full Time)
Qualification: Bachelor in Engineering
Subjects taught:
Specialising in Maths, English & Science for Primary school and Maths & English for Secondary school.
Current students:
10 students in 2022, 12 students in 2023
Teaching methods:
* Equipped with latest MOE syllabus and to provide the best teaching solutions for my students.
* I apply practice-based teaching, which has been proven to be effective based on students' results, to enable my students to have a better understanding of the topics and to build up a stronger foundation.
* With my flexible teaching methods to suit different individual students' style and speed of learning, and allowing each and every individual child to express their individuality when it comes to answering questions for all subjects and assisting them to develop interest in their studies, 95% of my students have achieved a minimum of 2 grades up (i.e. from 'D' to a 'A' / 'B' grade) within a short period of time under my guidance and a passing rate of over 90% among all my students for the past 24 years.
Teaching Approach / Strategies
* Maths - Solve word problems using 'See.Plan.Do.Check' and various methods / strategies in handling the questions.
* Science - Understanding experiments questions and Science concepts in a simpler manner and proper answering techniques to different questions.
* English - 'Dissect' and understand comprehension passage and answering questions to the point. Inputting interesting idioms and 'substances' into composition writing.
* For teaching materials, I have the latest (2021 / 2022) tests / exams papers of all levels for my students for them to have sufficient practices.
Some of my students' achievements from 2019 to 2022
2022
* Achievements by Lower Primary students
1. P3 - Previously has no clue in answering Comprehension questions. Able to understand and answer according to the passage within few lessons.
* Achievements by Upper Primary students
1. P6 - Achieve distinction in PSLE Maths, Science and English.
2. P5 - able to apply different techqiues to solve different types of word problems. Previously phobia in doing word problems.
2021
* Achievements by Lower Primary students
1. P2 - Unable to read most words, manages to read whole comprehension passage by himself after 4 lessons.
* Achievements by Upper Primary students
1. P5 - Manage to overcome her phobia in solving problems. Able to solve most word problems correctly in SA2.
2020
* Achievements by Upper Primary students
1. P6 - From 46 marks for SA1 to 78 marks for Prelims in Maths.
2. P5 (new student) - gotten her very first passing score of 53 marks for her English SA1 (She has failed all her English exams since P1)
* Achievements by Lower Primary students
1. P3 - Student with ADHD condition - slight improvement in English (20 marks to 23 marks), Maths (25 marks to 32 marks) and Science (15 marks to 26 marks). However, he has developed higher interest in his studies, taking the initiative to do his homework and clear all doubts that he has.
2019
* Achievements by Sec 4 students:
1. Highest 'A2' grade in 'N' level Maths among 2 of my 'N' Level students
* Achievements by Upper Primary students:
1. P6 - Highest PSLE score of 238 among 4 of my P6 students.
2. P6 - Greatest improvement among my 4 P6 students - achieved 'Distinction' in PSLE Maths (Previously 'U' grade in P5 SA2 Maths)
3. P5 - Second top P5 student in her school, achieving 90 marks for English, 86 marks for Science and 98 marks for Maths.
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Occupation: Full time tutor
Years of Experience: 24 years (12 years Part Time, 12 years Full Time)
Qualification: Bachelor in Engineering
Subjects taught:
Specialising in Maths, English & Science for Primary school and Maths & English for Secondary school.
Current students:
10 students in 2022, 12 students in 2023
Teaching methods:
* Equipped with latest MOE syllabus and to provide the best teaching solutions for my students.
* I apply practice-based teaching, which has been proven to be effective based on students' results, to enable my students to have a better understanding of the topics and to build up a stronger foundation.
* With my flexible teaching methods to suit different individual students' style and speed of learning, and allowing each and every individual child to express their individuality when it comes to answering questions for all subjects and assisting them to develop interest in their studies, 95% of my students have achieved a minimum of 2 grades up (i.e. from 'D' to a 'A' / 'B' grade) within a short period of time under my guidance and a passing rate of over 90% among all my students for the past 24 years.
Teaching Approach / Strategies
* Maths - Solve word problems using 'See.Plan.Do.Check' and various methods / strategies in handling the questions.
* Science - Understanding experiments questions and Science concepts in a simpler manner and proper answering techniques to different questions.
* English - 'Dissect' and understand comprehension passage and answering questions to the point. Inputting interesting idioms and 'substances' into composition writing.
* For teaching materials, I have the latest (2021 / 2022) tests / exams papers of all levels for my students for them to have sufficient practices.
Some of my students' achievements from 2019 to 2022
2022
* Achievements by Lower Primary students
1. P3 - Previously has no clue in answering Comprehension questions. Able to understand and answer according to the passage within few lessons.
* Achievements by Upper Primary students
1. P6 - Achieve distinction in PSLE Maths, Science and English.
2. P5 - able to apply different techqiues to solve different types of word problems. Previously phobia in doing word problems.
2021
* Achievements by Lower Primary students
1. P2 - Unable to read most words, manages to read whole comprehension passage by himself after 4 lessons.
* Achievements by Upper Primary students
1. P5 - Manage to overcome her phobia in solving problems. Able to solve most word problems correctly in SA2.
2020
* Achievements by Upper Primary students
1. P6 - From 46 marks for SA1 to 78 marks for Prelims in Maths.
2. P5 (new student) - gotten her very first passing score of 53 marks for her English SA1 (She has failed all her English exams since P1)
* Achievements by Lower Primary students
1. P3 - Student with ADHD condition - slight improvement in English (20 marks to 23 marks), Maths (25 marks to 32 marks) and Science (15 marks to 26 marks). However, he has developed higher interest in his studies, taking the initiative to do his homework and clear all doubts that he has.
2019
* Achievements by Sec 4 students:
1. Highest 'A2' grade in 'N' level Maths among 2 of my 'N' Level students
* Achievements by Upper Primary students:
1. P6 - Highest PSLE score of 238 among 4 of my P6 students.
2. P6 - Greatest improvement among my 4 P6 students - achieved 'Distinction' in PSLE Maths (Previously 'U' grade in P5 SA2 Maths)
3. P5 - Second top P5 student in her school, achieving 90 marks for English, 86 marks for Science and 98 marks for Maths.