Dr Massoud Hajsadr

Overall I have more than 30 years teaching experience. I have spent about 10 years of my teaching time at university higher education sector. I have also taught as a college lecturer for 13 years teaching computer sciences and A-level Mathematics. I have over 20 years tutoring experience and specifically about 7 years online tutoring experience. 

As a tutor I have taught Mathematics to ages ranging from 9 years old all the way up to adult learners. My oldest student was a 38 year old student studying an engineering course at Manchester University.

Prior to teaching I have worked as a computer programmer and a control engineer. I have worked on many projects that have required both computer software and hardware expertise. My most recent project is an online classroom that allows me and many other tutors to teach their students via internet. This online classroom has the effectiveness of a face to face lesson while at the same time can have all the benefits and productivity effects that technology can add to teaching and learning. 

I won the best e-learning practitioner of the year award in 2006. I have published a number of papers about the utilisation of technology to enhance learning. I am also the designer of the Blended Animated Teaching pedagogy. My knowledge and hands on experience with learners with different learning needs and learning styles has enabled me to prepare optimised lessons with extremely high success rates.

I am a NLP practitioner and often use NLP to help my students to regain their confidence in their abilities and motivate them to work harder for greater achievements and enable them to manage their time and efforts effectively 

Study Skills such as notes taking and notes keeping are crucial to my students' success. I will initially assist them in making clear notes and in keeping their notes in an orderly and easily usable manner while training my students to become efficient notes makers and in becoming very organised notes keepers.

It is also crucial that my students can plan and manage their study time effectively so that every subject is given its appropriate attention while times for rest and other leisure activities are not completely ignored.

In our lessons I will also show my students memory enhancing techniques and problem solving methodologies. Often my students complain that though they study hard, they don't retain and remember what they have studied. That must be quite disheartening because they cannot realise the benefit of the time and effort that they put into studying.

Though my students' confidence mainly comes from their true learning and their realisation of real achievements during and after every lesson, but when necessary I will also use NLP (Neural Linguistic Programming) techniques to assist them maintain a good level of motivation throughout and help them reach a satisfactory level of confidence and acquire a reassuring resilience towards exams and exam situations.

NLP is an effective talk therapy that via replacing negative thoughts with very strong and tangible positive ones the NLP practitioner can bring back the energy and vitality into the behaviour of his subject.

This PhD was the result of a joint research project by the University of Sunderland and a local manufacturer, Fasson Cramlington Ltd. The aim of this project was to create an Expert System from the knowledge of better operators to assist the less experienced operators in their daily problem solving tasks.

During this period I have been leading the operation of a number of projects which aimed to produce a web-based as well as Android and IOS-based applications for online teaching and learning and for online technical meetings via a whiteboard capable of sophisticated live technical communications between groups of experts or teachers and students. The product of this period has been in use by many online tutors and students. The most current project is entitle the Whiteboard Meeting Organiser (WMO) which due to be placed amongst users for beta testing.

Thank you so much for tutoring me, you’ve been absolutely amazing. You’ve taught me so much more than I ever thought possible, you made me understand things where my teachers haven’t. You know how to speak to teenagers and you are very patient. You’ve given me a massive confidence boost and have allowed me to really believe in myself. You are the reason I am hoping to pursue maths at college. Thank you so much, I wish you all the best.