Sam has been part of the TSSM’s Geography team since 2024. He is an extremely passionate teacher who enjoys seeing his students achieve their learning outcomes while scoring impressive study scores.

Same has taught senior Geography since 2022, giving him extensive experience in the subject. Sams’s travel experience and volunteering efforts around the world has given him specific fundamentals that he utilises to engage the students with the concepts of the subject in a simplified form, being able to aid with their understanding come exam time.

Sam is a motivated teacher who makes use of available resources to enhance and improve his teaching abilities so his students can continue to excel.
Sam has a unique background as he has a Bachelor of Education (Honours). Sam goes the extra mile in applying his extensive pedagogical and content knowledge to ensure he fosters a purposeful learning environment for diverse learners, contributing greatly to a school's sense of community.

Sam also plays an important role in producing high quality VCE resources used by many teacher and students in Geography for TSSM.

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Sam believes that learning should be in line with the current curriculum, whilst also being meaningful, purposeful, and engaging.

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Travel
Food
TV and Movies.

Testimonials

"Such a great holiday program, gaining much benefit heading into the next terms work."

- Kyle Oneil

"The notes that I was given will assist me in more detailed explanations in my essays."

- James English

"The notes are very specific, detailed and helpful. I am definitely going to use them as my main form of study."

- Crystal Garner

"This revision program has been so useful! My knowledge of what to write about on the exam is so much broader and I would recommend it to anyone wanting to do really well on the exams!"

- Emily Mumme

"I gained extra motivation and understanding in my studies as well as extra confidence. TSSM was the best thing I did for my schooling."

- Natalie Studdert

''TSSM's intensive weekly tutorials have reinforced the work I do at school. The notes are excellent and straight to the point. Time well spent."

- Hong Fei Ting

"It was brilliant! Such a good presenter really enjoyed it and learnt a lot. Definitely will come back for the end of year lectures."

- Simone Milenkovski

"TSSM has consolidated my knowledge on the areas of my study and it has significantly increased my confidence in my future exams. I am glad I chose TSSM."

- Anthony Tran

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