I use Zoom with a whiteboard and PowerPoint or other documents which works incredibly well to teach. If I have to show something with manipulatives for example counters to demonstrate a concept such as early adding, subtracting, division etc. then I switch cameras to focus on my ‘work area’ and demonstrate how this works by showing how I move the objects around to do that number operation. It is the same strategy I would be using as if I was sitting right beside your child.

At the start I would I assess your child’s strengths and misconceptions so I have a clear idea what to work on and which areas to target specifically to make teaching and learning successful. I am aware, especially with younger children aged 5 that an hour can be long, so I make sure that this is broken up into smaller learning segments with short breaks in between to do something fun like brain gym so that the entire lesson is as productive as it can be. I have used these methods recently to effectively teach the following:

• reading – using phonics and a systematic approach, building on what is knownspellings – looking at spelling patterns of graphemes
• number skills – different ways of working out problems so your child understands and has a choice of what method to use to solve problems and knows why this works
• using helpful strategies with their learning
• (I have also helped 2 students with extra tuition in German and they had fantastic results in their GCSEs – this was in face-to-face tutoring but can be easily adapted to learning online)