Jessica Williamson has been voted Art of Smart’s Campus Coach of the Year for 2020!
Jessica, better known as Jess, has been working with Art of Smart for a year and a half now tutoring English, Modern History and Legal Studies. She is 20 years old and at the University of Sydney studying a Bachelor of Secondary Education and Bachelor of Arts majoring in English and History.
Get to know why our students love her in the interview below!
那么杰西，您喜欢成为一名导师吗？
I love building relationships with students and g要认识所有不同的人，这是我想这样做的工作，各种各样的乐趣！
您的热情和爱好是什么？
我是基督徒，所以我在教堂和青年团体上度过了很多时间。我现在在一个星期五晚上领导9年级的女孩，所以这是我想的我的爱好之一。我也要执教和打篮球！
Is there a lesson or skill you’ve learned from it that you use in tutoring?
I think it’s about relationships, getting to know people, how they’re different and what they enjoy so you can connect through that. I think that relationships are really important if you’re gonna guide anyone — whether it’s teaching content or just in any area.
What would you say is your tutor superpower, Jess?
Individualising; it’s so important to change it up for students. I have students of different skill sets and understanding and attention ability, so sometimes I’ll change up the way I explain, for example, an essay structure.
对于一个学生来说，我可以画一个图并仔细阅读，而其他人可能需要他们更多地动手。也许，我必须让他们按照他们认为正确的顺序进行一些示例论文 - 因此，只需更改教学方法即可。
How do you feel when a student has an ‘ah-ha’ moment?
Ah! So good! I feel like it’s such a wonderful moment of clicking because you feel good that they’ve learnt something.
They also feel good that they become more confident to do it as well and that they can actually achieve something and grow. It’s really, really exciting!
What’s the best ‘ah-hah’ moment you’ve had with a student last year?
It sounds really boring and technical, but realising that English essay questions are often trying to get at the one topic so students don’t have to do a completely different essay for every single question. It’s really the same argument, redone sort of thing.
当他们开始看到“哦，我不必写一篇文章 - 就像我刚刚写的那本书！”
Who is your #1 inspiration他们如何影响您的教学？
I think it’s a combination of my own high school teachers, because they were just so loving and so great at teaching. I take a lot of my teaching methods and strategies from my own teachers!
There are specific learning strategies that I’ve taken from teachers such as using Geolabs and this sort of Jeopardy revision quiz type game, which is especially good for Modern History!
杰西，您给学生的最好的建议是什么？
When it’s getting really close to the HSC, just before exams, it gets to a point where they’ve done a lot of hard work and they just need less stress. What my mum told me actually was, “You just need to attend and attempt.”
Like great job — they’ve gotten that far and they’ve put in the effort. Now, they just need to do the best that they can.
Do you have any particularly memorable moments from class?
当我们对一些不好的笑话和记住他们必须记住的不同技巧的方式结合在一起时，我们的笑声 - 只有老套的笑话和大多数与学生一起笑！
您认为教学时幽默有多重要？
Incredibly high, I just love humour. It’s a good breakup from the class and makes lessons memorable especially if it’s linked to a joke or something, so definitely very useful.
It’s mostly just puns and they love or hate it really!
告诉我们一个学生成功的故事。
I was so proud of one student. It was the end of Year 11 when I took her on and she was just feeling like she should be doing better than she was.
I think she felt like that a lot of the time and just thought that there was no way to improve that — it was just like constant feedback that she wasn’t understanding but then she got a really good mark in one of her assessments and I saw a complete change in her attitude and believed she could do it.
She started working really hard — she was waking up early and doing practice essays and she ended up doing really well in the end in all of her subjects. She really turned her results around in a year!
What’s something a student has taught you?
There are lots of little fun things like little fun facts about the world and stuff, but in terms of character building, I think just that dedication can really pay off and has quite big impacts as well.
当您不觉得自己的进步太大时，有时可能会很难，但是它可以毫不犹豫地以很大的方式获得回报。有点像连锁反应。
What made you want to become a high school teacher, Jess?
I think it’s a great position to be in as you’re teaching the future generation and shaping them as well. It’s a really good position because I can help people as well as influence them!
Do you have any advice for your students?
很高兴知道，如果您投入艰苦的工作，它将获得回报，但也要记住这不是一切。就像HSC很重要，它教您很多技能，它可以为您提供帮助，但生活也比这更大。
What is your favourite book?
很多！我爱“男孩燕子宇宙”。它赢得了很多奖项 - 这是特伦特·道尔顿（Trent Dalton）的一本书。
我真的很喜欢写作，这只是美丽的图像 - 只是所有这些相关但不陈词滥调的隐喻。就像，“是的！那就是这种感觉！”而且，您真的很快就会感觉到与角色的联系。
最后，您想要的一本书是英语课程吗？
Maybe ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’. It’s got a whole analogy, it’s awesome.
这就是为什么杰西是我们2020年的年度校园教练！
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