English! I can help you become fluent in it. I have a conversational style of teaching!

I am an education professional with over twelve years experience in mainstream and specialist schools, during this time I have taught English across Key Stages 1-5.

Throughout the course of my career I have received feedback describing my lessons as "creative" and involving "deep learning". My main focus is to plan good lessons and deliver them in a way that is fun and engaging. I believe that making learning enjoyable makes it easier - so challenges are looked forward to rather than dreaded.

Additionally, I have covered a range of positions including Teaching Assistant, Literacy Co-Ordinator, Cover Supervisor, Mentor and Head of Year.

I particularly enjoyed being a Head of Year - the responsibility of a year group was a real motivator for me and I found the diversity of the cohort a really enjoyable challenge.
I found the Cover Supervisor work particularly useful as it provided me with the opportunity to meet, engage and teach most of the students across the schools. I have extensive experience of teaching students of various ethnicities and cultures; additionally, I have experience in dealing with a range of students in co-ed and single-sex schools.
Working in London has gifted me the opportunity to teach and support students from across the world. I have relished this and found that teaching and supporting using formal and informal styles is very effective. Finding the strengths and areas for development of each learner is embedded in my practice and I hope to use all of the skills I have developed in helping FindTutors educate the learners of tomorrow.

I am versatile - I have planned lessons for both core and options subjects, a non-exhaustive list includes English, History and Geography. Noteworthy is the fact that I have a musical and background and experience in Performing Arts. I draw heavily on these skills as part of my classroom practice, using an animated style and my physical presence as a means of "bringing the subject to life".

I have a great deal of experience in Pastoral care and used to work as a Learning Mentor - this is where I developed my conversational styler of teaching - drawing my own school experience and often using the life stories of my peers as a means of teaching moral lessons. Doing so allows me to switch gears between the written lesson plan and a more fluid style which has been praised by students and teachers.