Louis Jagger - Tutors - Keystone Tutors

Experience

I've taught mostly 13+, and mostly Mathematics. This was all done between 2008 and 2009, for another tutoring agency. Nonetheless, I feel it would be an achievable jump to tutor other age-groups in subjects where I have had academic experience, especially English and Latin (which I studied to degree level), in addition to a wide range of other disciplines. I've also been working, with adults, as an elocution therapist.

Recent Keystone Work:

Primary (Year 3 - 6) Maths: Singapore Maths for 7 year old (Started: October 2011)

13+ Maths, 13+ Science: CE Maths help, possibly a bit of Science (Started: October 2011)

11+ Maths : Westminster Pre-Test (Started: November 2011)

13+ Maths, 11+ Maths : Common Entrance Maths for year 5 boy, and general support for his little brother (Started: November 2011)

13+ Maths: CE Maths (Started: November 2011)

13+ Latin, Middle Years (Year 6 - 9) Latin: Latin club teaching for a school in SW3 (Started: December 2011)

GCSE Maths: Maths for 14 year old (Started: December 2011)

GCSE French: French for 8 and 14 year old (Started: December 2011)

GCSE Latin: GCSE LATIN (Started: December 2011)

11+ Maths : Maths (Started: January 2012)

13+ Maths, 13+ Science: 13+ Maths and Science (Started: February 2012)

13+ Maths, 13+ Science: Maths and Science 13+ (Started: February 2012)

13+ English, 13+ French: English and French for Common Entrance (Started: February 2012)

11+ English, 11+ Maths : English and Maths for 11+ (boy) (Started: March 2012)

13+ Maths, 13+ Science: Maths and Science for CE boy and younger brother (Started: March 2012)

GCSE Maths: GCSE Maths (Started: March 2012)

GCSE Maths: GCSE Maths (Started: March 2012)

Biography

I'm a one-time tutor looking to reacquaint myself with the profession. Having worked as a copywriter and a journalist of late, I'm hoping now to reignite what I started a few years ago. My life has taken in a wide variety of professional experiences, from lifting tins of paint to cheffing to temping at a now-defunct sports website. However, my intensely inquisitive attitude to the world around me has never dulled, and I remain very much in touch with my inner child - if there's something worth learning, I'll always give it thorough study! I believe that this attitude equips me ideally for tuition. I am extremely good at engaging with people of all ages, on their terms as well as mine, and have enormous patience as well as the ability to work through a problem in simple language.

I attended Westminster School as a Queen's Scholar, coming 2nd overall in the scholarship exam. I went on to study English Literature BA at Cambridge and Science Journalism MA at City University London.

Personal Approach

My methods vary from student to student - a particularly outgoing and outwardly intelligent student will often thrive best within a discursive setting, whereas an introverted child will learn best from demonstration and 'parroting'. Generally, I'll try and make the child do the vast majority of the notation and the practice, but I'll always let them know if they're off-course. If they are engaging well with a piece of work, but they are getting minor details wrong, I'll generally let them finish and then later explain what the problem is. Encouraging a child is my preference - I am sterner when a child gets something wrong that they have already clearly mastered, but on the whole I believe in supporting and engaging with a child on their cognitive level.

What I do when I am not tutoring

I live in Hammersmith with my wife. I spend my time playing cricket and football, writing, discussing cultural developments and taking long walks. The next few years promise the first few years of blissful wedlock, a higher batting-average and hopefully the publishing of my first novel! And yes, I can commit to tutoring for the foreseeable future.

Testimonials

27/02/2012: Louis was amazing. My son felt so much better when he left and feels he will really help him understand what the school is looking for. (Mother of CE student)

24/01/2012: I have no doubt that his extra classes have been a great help. (Mother of GCSE Latin student)

24/01/2012: Louis was excellent. My son Callum has had a private tutor before but we were highly impressed with Louis and will certainly look to book him again. (Father of GCSE Maths Student)

24/01/2012: Louis is such a wonderful and likeable character who works extremely well with David. We hope to have him tutoring us for a very long time! (Mother of 11+ Maths Student)

06/01/2012: The lessons went really well, we all very much like Louis! Thank you (Mother of Singapore Method Maths student)

06/01/2012: My son is very happy with how the Latin tutorials are goingt (Mother of CE Latin student)

21/12/2011: "It was fantastic thank you so much! Louis was really great" (Mother of CE Maths student)

22/11/2011: We are very pleased with Louis already, and most certainly we are extremely happy about having him on board! (Mother of 11+ Maths student)

22/11/2011: We honestly would of not been able to find such a wonderful and dedicated tutor as Louis, we are very positive about him (Mother of 11+ Maths student)

22/11/2011: Louis gave my son a wonderful understanding of some very important equations etc that have been of great concern to him (Mother of 11+ Student)

22/11/2011: Louis is getting on well with our daughter and he is always on time, which is great (Mother of CE Maths student)

''I would like to thankyou so very much for forwarding him our way! Yes he arrived last night with alot of enthusiasm and came across as extremely knowledgable within his mathematical field. Of course he was extremely good with David, he took him through alot of different equations with great depth, he made a concerted effort to show David in the most detailed process of what to do, which gave David a wonderful understanding of some very important equations etc that have been of great concern to him.

We are very pleased with Loise already, and most certainly we are extremly happy about having him on board! Thankyou so much again Will for asking him to join David on his journey to his all important exams! We honestly would of not been able to find such a wonderful and dedicated tutor as Louis, we are very positive with him so far!''

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