Master Coaching and Tuition

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Why choose Master Coaching and Tuition ®?

• High-quality coaching and tuition

• Qualified, dedicated, experienced and passionate tutors

• Excel in your learning area in an encouraging and nurturing environment

• Individual and small group tuition available

• Face-to-face or online (Australia-wide) coaching and tutoring

• Receive undivided, individual attention, support, guidance and advice

• Tuition lessons/sessions designed to suit your learning goals and needs

• Comfortable, safe and quiet learning spaces

About the Coaches and Tutors:

Director and Co-Founder:

Elizabeth Nicholls (B.Mus B. Teach Hons, Full VIT Registration) is a highly experienced and passionate Classroom and Instrumental Music teacher and director/conductor, English, EAL and LANTITE Literacy teacher, teaching mentor, musician, computer literacy teacher and life coach. She makes learning enjoyable and achievable for children and adults.

Elizabeth is available to help you ‘Master’ your chosen subject, to help you achieve your learning goals, to assist you with your learning needs and to assist you in achieving the skills required to be confident and capable in your chosen subject. Elizabeth has enjoyed many years teaching and mentoring students through their love of learning.

Elizabeth teaches Classroom and Instrumental Music, including ensemble direction of concert bands, stage bands, singing/vocal coach in musicals/productions, piano accompaniment of strings, choral groups and musicals/productions. Elizabeth is also a teaching mentor to pre-service and graduate teachers completing their tertiary studies or first probationary year in school teaching. Music is indeed a universal language and a wonderful craft and subject in the Performing Arts sector.

Elizabeth loves teaching the English language, helping students develop a passion for writing, speaking and listening. Elizabeth loves reading books, in particular, biographies.  She loves writing and reading poetry. Elizabeth has enjoyed teaching students how to write, listen and speak with flair and confidence. It is a joy to read students’ work and to see their learning and confidence soar. Elizabeth has particularly enjoyed preparing students for upcoming NAPLAN, EAL and LANTITE Literacy exams. English certainly has its parallels when compared to Music: reading, writing/composing, speaking/performing. Elizabeth has been teaching English in Australia as well as abroad, including Cambodia and Indonesia.

Elizabeth teaches using the Growth Mindset^1.  Growth Mindset is the most effective way to learn and grow. Students will learn how to change their way of thinking and ultimately change their neural pathways, leading to successful learning for life.

Elizabeth also explores Character Strengths² in her lessons with students. Students will be taught to recognise and use their Character Strengths in their lessons, in their chosen subject, as well as  in their day-to-day life. This is specifically taught in Life Coaching lessons:

Ultimately, Elizabeth believes that learning is holistic and transferable. Learning a musical instrument, learning to write an essay or using a computer, can help an individual flourish in, for example: resilience³, organisation, critical thinking and help improve overall academic achievement.

Learning is indeed a Journey, not a Destination⁴.

Destination Learning is often about Performance: receiving a certain result or grade in an exam.
It’s ok to want to perform well in the subject we are pursuing, however, learning should be more than just about Performance. When the exam is over, did you do well? Will you remember the skills taught in the exam long after the exam itself? Is your learning based just on Performance?

Journey Learning is a holistic approach to learning. Not only are students learning the specific skills required for good Performance in a subject, they are learning a lot more:
Have a purpose, drive and passion to learn the subject.
Learn important ways to learn well and grow as a student and in life (in any subject). This includes Resilience. Learning takes time and can be difficult and require perseverance and effort (refer to Growth Mindset).
Understanding a skill so well that they are able to explain and apply it, knowing how and when to apply it, and even teach someone else how to do it.
Learning to enjoy the subject.
Receiving personal satisfaction or being able to bless others with their skills, e.g. playing a piano piece, writing a persuasive speech about something important.

Lessons are personalised by being individually designed to suit each student’s learning abilities and needs. This includes the use of Differentiated Learning. Elizabeth uses the GANAG Instructional Model⁵ when planning lessons for each student. Lessons are skills-based, not necessarily topic based.

Elizabeth is experienced in teaching both gifted students (including select entry, accelerated learning classes) and students with learning difficulties or disabilities. Elizabeth is able to teach both children and adults, including learners who are learning English as an additional language.

Assistant Director and Co-Founder:

Peter Nicholls holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting, Finance & Management) from Monash University, a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment plus other Cert. IVs in Graphic, Web Design and Small Business Management.

Peter has a wealth of experience, having held diverse Leadership roles in the workforce over the past 30 years:  eg. Chartered and Management Accounting, Charity Fundraising with World Vision, Graphic and Web Design, Bookshop Retail Management, Sales and Marketing  plus a decade of front-line Community work.

 Peter is a wonderfully warm-hearted communicator: with a gracious, empathetic personality and sound relating and networking skills, which are crucial as a tutor and coach.

Peter’s specific expertise includes:

• Building Strong vibrant “People Networks”
• Building Motivated and inspired teams
  
• Career and Life Coaching, having coached and mentored over 200+ Graduates
• Direct Communicating and Creative copy for Message delivery  
• Fundraising and Donor cultivation strategies.
• EAL/ESL coaching and tuition, in particular, Conversational English 

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Individual and group tuition available:

All ages welcome. Lessons available in 20, 25, 30, 40, 45 and 60 minute sessions. A range of payment options are available. This includes the provision of individual invoices and receipts.

A 30min Trial lesson free of charge is encouraged for all enquiries. This includes an orientation of the learning space, discussion about proposed planning and scope of learning, as well as the opportunity for students, parents and individuals to ask questions, in order to make an informed decision before commencement of coaching and/or tuition.

Tutoring available online Australia-wide, or, at our home studio in Bayswater, in Melbourne’s Eastern suburbs. We are located a short walking distance from Bayswater Train Station and close to Mountain Highway and Bayswater/Scoresby Road.
Refreshments and comfortable waiting area provided, with heating and cooling.

For parents: The Mountain High Shopping Centre is close by to run errands, whilst their child is having their lesson.

For parents accompanying younger family members: there is a basketball court and football oval at the Bayswater Secondary College across the road, as well as parks and the beautiful Dandenong Creek Walking Trail down at the bottom end of Maida avenue.

Free WiFi offered upon request.

Elizabeth has full VIT (Victorian Institute of Teaching) registration.

Peter and Elizabeth both have current WWCC (Working with Children’s Check), including current NPHCs (National Police History Checks).

Elizabeth is up-to-date in her medical training in First Aid, CPR and Anaphylaxis.

Peter has a Level 2 in First Aid, as well as Mental Health First Aid Training.

Opening hours:

References:

¹  hammersmithacademy.org

²viacharacter.org/resources

³theresilienceproject.org.au

⁴https://coachcampus.com/coach-portfolios/power-tools/panagiotis-ntouskas-journey-vs-destination/

⁵https://www.vssec.vic.edu.au/ganag/