I love chemistry, and I am very confident that I have excellent subject knowledge and skills to prepare and deliver high-quality lessons to both A-level and BTEC cohorts. I am able to stretch and challenge pupils to help them achieve the best of their potential through appropriate experiments, examples, and relevant analogies. I can inspire students to get fully engaged in lessons, which helps t...
I love chemistry, and I am very confident that I have excellent subject knowledge and skills to prepare and deliver high-quality lessons to both A-level and BTEC cohorts. I am able to stretch and challenge pupils to help them achieve the best of their potential through appropriate experiments, examples, and relevant analogies. I can inspire students to get fully engaged in lessons, which helps them to raise their own aspirations in life. I believe in the basic principle of education, which is ‘from known to unknown', and so I can guide my students through every step, from the very basic ideas to the most complex concept or skill to be mastered, as laid down by the exam board. Being a teacher with decades of classroom experience with multi-ethnic and multinational cohorts, I am confident that I will be able to deliver a high-quality service in the capacity of a chemistry teacher at any educational institution. Through these years, I have helped students achieve their maximum potential, irrespective of their initial level of subject-based understanding, linguistic skills, or examination boards. As I am an examiner for various UK examination boards, I can indeed train students from the much-coveted examination point of view to realize their aspirations in a practical way. This is evidenced by the results of my students, who have secured a very high percentage of A*-A grades, which enabled them to progress to Oxbridge and other top universities in UK. For this reason, I have been voted as the most inspiring or effective teacher many times in my career at Abbey College and in the UAE.
Students really appreciate my lessons, as I make it a point to help them relate the observations they make during laboratory sessions to the fundamental theoretical aspects of the subject, as detailed elsewhere in their texts. I really enjoy making excellent student-friendly and differentiated resources (notes, workbooks, worksheets, specially designed tests, and their marking schemes) every year. This enabled me to cater for the educational needs of both domestic and international students.
I have also completed various training programmes conducted by AQA on teaching and assessing A-Level and GCSE students as required by the present assessment requirement. I have up-to-date knowledge of the latest curriculum developments in chemistry for BTEC and A-levels. At Solihull College and the University Centre, I designed the most suitable practical exercises for the BTEC Level 3 courses, which helped the students maximize their potential. In order to help them make the most out of their time with me, I generally conduct an initial assessment at the beginning of the academic year which would reveal their most preferred learning styles such as visual, Auditory or Kinaesthetic as this information is most crucial in shaping the patterns of all my future communications with them such as lesson delivery and study resources. I have also passed the online science practical assessment conducted by the AQA exam board in the year 2016. As I am an examiner for various examination boards, I am very informed about the recent changes in the specifications/examination patterns and I can guide the students to do their best in these board exams, without any struggle. In addition to the role of a Chemistry/science teacher, I have a very long experience in supporting students, in the capacity of a personal tutor or class teacher in my previous work places.
I use all the commonly available software to develop teaching resources as most of the students find the electronic form more easily portable and accessible. Nonetheless I insist that they should have sufficient practice in solving and presenting the answers on paper manually well before they sit for their exams as this would only help them to score the grade they aim for in the real exam.