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Currently we require tutors for Brisbane including some who are able to tutor in the suburbs listed below.

North: Chermside, Zillmere, Bracken Ridge
South West: Inala, Acacia Ridge, Sunnybank, Coopers Plains, Eight Mile Plains.
West: Ipswich, Collingwood Park, Goodna.
South: Logan, Woodridge, Beenleigh, including suburbs such as Crestmead, Marsden, Slack's Creek, Kingston and Waterford.

If you are interested in becoming a tutor or would like to know more about what we do, you can find out more about the refugee tutoring program here.

We hold Intake nights every 8 weeks for new tutors. To become a tutor, you will need to attend three compulsory training sessions: Intake Sessions 1, 2 and 3. Visit the Upcoming Events page to find details of the next training and to register.

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Teaching numeracy

Teaching numeracy

Many students will have missed out on basic foundational numeracy skills. In particular, where the student has not had formal schooling previously, their grasp of numeracy and mathematics may be fairly tenuous. Hands-on, concrete reinforcing of basic numeracy skills may still be needed even for high school students.

The more time you can spend reinforcing numeracy concepts, the easier it will be for a student to pick up new concepts in school. You don’t need to be a maths whiz to teach numeracy. You can introduce concepts of numbers and relative size, weight, frequency etc to any conversation.

The main tips for teaching numeracy are:

use concrete reinforcing of topics at early levels, rather than abstract concepts, eg use matchsticks to count out basic addition at first
be patient, and be prepared to repeat the task many times over
use repetition to reinforce concepts, particularly between different weeks
having fun – there are many different, practical activities that can be done to make maths interesting!

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