Matt Russell

Psychology was my Undergraduate degree at University. I then discovered that I wanted to work with young people, and I got into UCL to complete my PGCE in Psychology, allowing me to teach all ages including A Level Psychology students. My two placements were both in Grammar schools in London, where the A Level and GCSE students were pushed to a high standard for good grades, which required my lesson's to be up to par. I then worked last academic year in a school in Southfields, London, where the students in my A Level class worked extremely hard to achieve the grades that they were capable of. `

My lessons tend to vary on the subtopic I am teaching in Psychology - some are very interactive with the students, like replicating psychological experiments. Others are information and exam-practice heavy, as some of the content cannot be replicated and takes a deeper level of understanding. I spend a few lessons working on exam practice and essay writing, as exam technique lets a lot of Psychology students down at A Level. I tend to structure my lessons into one another, the first lesson working on basic knowledge and the next lessons working on evaluative techniques and applying our knowledge to specific exam questions, with the use of model answers etc.

If students struggle with one piece of the content I like to stop and go through it, as I do not feel there is a point in moving on to the next piece of information if they are not understanding the previous. I have plenty of resources to use, such as booklets, exam leaflets and so on.