Tutoring adults and children:
Adults/Children - English as a second language
Children - Prep to Year
Could you or your child benefit from tuition with an experienced teacher?
• 30 years full-time teaching in Queensland primary and middle schools
• 5 years full-time teaching in a private primary school in Japan
• A belief that quality learning is fun, goal focused, and worthwhile
• A view of learning as a personal and unique life-long journey
Tutorials can support:
- your child’s schoolwork
10/08/2021
I'm really excited to share this recent article I wrote 'Drowning in Information' with you. It's featured in the August edition of the Logan City Guides, on page 37. Don't forget to pick up your copy or you can read it online.
Is your child struggling with information overload? Contact me today and find out how I can help.
Miss Brigitte.
Unlocking Language Power
During my experience as a teacher, I have seen so many people, both young and older, struggling with written and/or spoken communication even though they have been immersed in it – learning it, using it, listening to it, and reading it – for years.
Stored in an incredible brain, each of us has an enormous capacity to communicate in our native language; however, this potential is so often lost with no practical framework on which to attach our language potential.
As a primary and middle school teacher in both state and private schools over the past 36 years, I too have been disappointed with the outcome of many language-learning programs that, instead of empowering the use of language, have greatly reduced and even temporarily extinguished language potential and clouded the joy of using it. Hence, over the years, I have developed, tested and refined a better way.
If you would like to find out more about how to unlock and ignite language potential, please give me a call or send me a message. I look forward to hearing from you.
Email - [email protected]
Mobile - 0421877705
Only the best will do!
Teachers, tutors, coaches, and the many other supporters of a child’s education, all have wonderful talents to engage children and young people in their learning journey. But it is the family, the child’s most important supporters, who ensure that absolutely everything good goes to their child. Certainly, the standards of any contributor to a child’s life should be nothing short of excellent.
What should the role of an excellent tutor look like?
• Respect the parents and their child
• Build rapport
• Support the child’s educational needs with exceptional expertise, continuous professionalism, and integrity
• Employ comprehensive knowledge and practical, dynamic strategies that truly enhance learning
• Use clear, open communication with the parents and their child concerning all work completed in each lesson, and the work to be done in the next lesson
• Model a positive, pro-active attitude, and a positive self-image in all things
• Listen to and support parents’ ideas and goals for their child
• Listen to and support the child’s ideas, interests, goals and aspirations
• Respect the parents’ and the child’s perspective
• Inquire of and support their current school subjects, programs, and goals
• Find authentic evidence of student’s current strengths on which to build further skills
• Carefully plan together with the child worthwhile short-term and long-term goals
• Promote strategies that strengthen how to learn well
• Encourage with a positive vision for the way ahead
• Utilize the child’s most effective learning methods
• Take into account the child’s extra-curricular activities with local clubs and community groups and complement the work of these teachers, coaches, community leaders and organizers
• Model at all times the joy and the benefits of learning
• Continually celebrate the many facets of learning success and excellence
• Embrace diversity
• Maintain the security and confidentiality of all information related to the child and the child’s family
Miss Brigitte – Tutoring Toward Excellence – [email protected]
“Over the past 36 years, it has been my absolute privilege to fulfill this role with great joy as a teacher; and now as a tutor, I continue to be guided by these important strategies which encourage and empower students to achieve their goals.”
Teaching Qualifications:
Diploma of Teaching Primary – University of Southern Queensland
University of Queensland CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults)
Teaching Experience:
1980 – 2013 with Education Queensland
2014 – 2019 with the International School of Nagano, Japan
Recent study:
April 2019 – February 2020
International Academy Japanese Language Studies, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
