Summary
Experienced distance learning and online tutor of IGCSE English Lang and Lit, GCSE Lit and Key Stage 3 English. Creative and focused tutor with particular expertise in teaching poetry, drama and prose. Able to help with exam writing tasks. Knowledge and experience of students with Special Needs.Qualifications
- PGCE in Further Ed (English) (London University)
- Online Tutoring Diploma (Warwick Univerisity)
- Human Rights in Education (London University)
- General Arts(Lit/Poetry/History/Welfare) (Open University)
- Diploma In Education(Rights) (London University)
- Diploma in Drama (Middlesex Polytechnic)
Experience
Most recent experience: Via Oxford Home Schooling: Pearson/EdExcel IGCSE English Lang A and Lit A; AQA/ GCSE Lit - several years experience, with students getting good results. I also teach Key Stage 3 English, Years 7, 8 and 9.Summary of previous experience:
I have worked in both the public and private education sector over the years, including 4 years teaching English in Tokyo Japan in the 1980s in Businesses, Colleges and a University.
Early experience: FE/HE/Adult Ed/Community Projects/Refugee Council: Taught: EFL, ESOL, LOCF, AAT Business Communications, Study Skills, City and Guilds Word and Number Power, Key Skills, Basic Skills, Functional Skills, English and Maths to Level 2, Access courses in English, Creative Writing courses/Drama.
Pitman's College and Private Language Schools: Taught: English for the Office/Secretarial Studies, ABE Travel and Tourism, Hospitality, Business and Marketing, Study Skills, RSA English, PLAB English Test for overseas doctors.
Colleges/Tutoring agencies/One to One/Private University/Theatre School/Art Colleges: Taught: Speech-making, Elocution, Interview Skills, CV Writing, School Entrance exams and 11+. IGCSE English Lang and Lit.
For the last few years I have worked only as an online and distance learning tutor of English Lang and Lit at all levels and skills.
More
Completed Certificate in TEFL 1980 ; TEFL/TESOL Certificate 2021; NCFC Level 2 Cert in Understanding Autism -2017. I also have Grades 1 to 6 in Speech and Drama, from LGSM. Speak some French and a little Japanese.Dissertations: The Education and Training of Girls and Women in Post-War Japan (MA, 1994)
English as a Second Language Provision in the London Boroughs of Islington and Tower Hamlets (Dip, 1985)
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English G English I English Literature G English literature I English Year 7 K3 English Year 8 K3 English Year 9 K3