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About Qasid
1)Summary
Experienced engineer and mathematics tutor with first class honours degree in Mechanical engineering, PhD in Applied Thermodynamics and over 11 years experience working and teaching in technical subjects. Appointed Edexcel GCSE examiner for June 2019.
2)Key strengths
My position as a 2019 GCSE examiner for Pearson Edexcel gives me privileged access to understanding and use of marking criteria, which translates to direct benefits for my students.
My background in cutting-edge technology research has trained me to communicate complex ideas simply, and this is now at the core of my teaching.
By personality I am warm, patient, proactive and detail-oriented, which makes me well-suited for teaching to a wide range of personalities, learning styles and special requirements.
Previous clients and employers have told me I have excellent classroom management skills and have succeeded in engaging students where other tutors have failed.
3)Experience
I have delivered thousands of hours of mathematics tuition: privately and in school classrooms; in the UK and abroad; from KS3 to GCSE to A Level to Degree level; to clients of all abilities and requirements, including those with special educational needs (ADHD) and those preparing for selective school entrance examinations.
While working as a classroom teacher at Brentside High School I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity of observing more experienced colleagues and being observed by them in return. The resulting exchange of knowledge benefited my teaching immensely. (While there I also started and ran a well-subscribed and widely-appreciated STEM club.)
At the age of 18 I had the pleasure of teaching full time in Gambia for 6 months. This opened my eyes to how education varies between countries. The demands of teaching a class of over 100 students (standard in Gambia) gave me a rigorous training in classroom management and I left with significantly increased confidence in dealing with any situation.
4)Approach
My approach aims to combine individual, personal rapport with the core teaching principles I have learned from my own professional experience and from reading published pedagogy research.
I work closely with clients of all abilities to carefully craft a programme of study that supports them through through their weaknesses and makes best use of their strengths to most efficiently reach their goals. I adapt every lesson to my students’ abilities and targets, patiently developing confidence in their mathematical abilities. Many students (including but not at all limited to several with ADHD) have come to me having previously given up on learning maths, finding it unbearably difficult. It has been incredibly rewarding for me to see such students break through their previous limitations and finally enjoy the pleasure of solving mathematical problems with increasing competency.
I use tutoring time effectively, maximising time spent engaged on challenging tasks, learning and consolidating knowledge and minimising time spent distracted by irrelevant information. I aim to establish firm boundaries and ensure that all pupils are aware of my high expectations both academically and behaviorally. I make it very clear to my students what the outcome of a task will be and guide them through the relevant steps to achieve it, but still allow the student to work independently to identify any misconceptions that they have and correct them. To ensure that they have consolidated the knowledge, I place great emphasis on the importance of a re-cap. When working with clients preparing for GCSE, I ensure my students get plenty of exam practice, timed and rigorously marked.
My study of teaching research literature has revealed many popular teaching methods to be weakly evidenced and possibly counterproductive, while others are much more robust. I apply the best findings by, for example, not lavishing underperforming students with praise, which has been proven to be counterproductive for both motivation and learning effectiveness. In line with best teaching practice I give only genuine praise and only when it is deserved, to exclusively reward effort and progress. I have observed that in the long run my students appreciate this challenging approach. It encourages them to work hard to meet their specific targets, which they (eventually) find very rewarding.
5)Future projects
I am currently writing software to develop future educational systems based on the latest research from neuroscience to psychology and math pedagogy. I aim to integrate my research and experience in teaching to develop ever-more-effective methods for teaching maths.
Other academic/professional achievements
Projects:
Invented, developed, built and brought to market the world’s first solar-powered glass furnace.
Led an international development project on sustainable cold storage.
Awards:
~€94K EU funding under the Solar Furnace in the European Research Area (SFERA) programme (2013-14).
Funding for Desert Fridge project by RWE npower renewables (2011) ; Humanity First international (2009-2011); Swansea University (2009); Wilkinsons (2009); HSBC (2009).
Institute of Mechanical Engineers Awards for both ‘Best Student’ and ‘Best Project’ (2011).
Atkins Carbon Critical Award for best project with a theme of carbon reduction (2011)
The Nuffield Research Foundation for research project: ‘Thermodynamic Model and Principle of a Clay Refrigerator and Its Derivatives’ (2010);
Publications and conference presentations:
Glass Technology: European Journal of Glass Science & Technology A Vol 58 (2) April 2017.
Ahmad, S.Q.S., Hand, R.J. & Wieckert, C., 2014. Use of concentrated radiation for solar powered glass melting experiments. Solar Energy, 109, pp.174–182.
12th European Society of Glass (ESG) Conference, 21-24 September 2014, Parma, Italy.
8th expert meeting of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Solar Heating and Cooling (SHC) programme, Task 49/IV (Solar Heat for Industrial Processes (SHIP)), 16-17 March 2015, Montpellier, France. As part of this working group, the author contributed part of the research described in this thesis to Deliverable B5 - Potential Enhancement of Solar Process Heat by Emerging Technologies which is available at: (concealed information)
24th International Congress of Glass (ICG), 7-11 April 2016, Shanghai, China.
University :
- University of Sheffield - PhD Engineering
- Swansea University - BEng Mechanical Engineering [First Class Honours ]
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