LoginRosie - Hull tutor
Information About Rosie:
Personal Description:
I am a CELTA qualified teacher with a range of experience teaching at private language schools, in Adult Education and on a voluntary basis. I have taught a range of levels, from Beginner level to children with limited educational background in Peru and one-to-one with an Omani man to prepare him for University in the UK, to Intermediate and Advanced levels, preparing students for the First Certificate exam and developing Academic and Aviation English on Summer school programmes. I have worked specifically with refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants both in an Adult Education college teaching ESOL and voluntarily at the Migrant English Project in Brighton, offering support and advice as well as free English lessons.
I spent four years of my childhood in Germany so I have a good knowledge of German and have studied French to A-Level standard. I play the cello and my interests include travel, textiles and craft-making, music, spending time with friends and learning as much as possible about what is happening around the world.
Teaching Experience:
I have an extensive range of experience teaching both adults and children in the UK and abroad:
August 2010: EIY Language School, York
- Responsibilities: teaching a range of students from pre-intermediate to advanced levels.
January-July 2010: Peacehaven SEN Facility, Peacehaven and Newhaven
- Main role: Specialist Teaching Assistant. Responsibilities included teaching small groups of children with speech, language and communication difficulties, including one-to-one with a girl with a hearing impairment; specific activities aimed at improving well-being through emotional literacy; classroom observations; speech and language assessments: 'RAPT', 'RWFT', 'BPVS', 'DLS'. Training workshops on 'Language and Literacy' with Speech and Language Therapist Trainer Maggie Johnson and 'Memory' led by Educational Psychologists.
July-August 2008: CELT Language School, Cardiff.
- Responsibilities included teaching intensive one-to-one classes to a beginner Omani man, in order for him to join the elementary class at the start of the academic year. As well as this I had various intermediate and higher intermediate classes, including teaching aviation English to a group of Kuwaiti pilots, and I joined the summer school programme for teenagers which, alongside teaching, involved organising tourist trips around Cardiff.
June-July 2008: EF Language School, Brighton:
- Responsibilities included two main classes of teenagers and adults at upper-intermediate level as well as vocabulary, grammar and special skills classes at advanced and elementary levels.
February-April 2008: Migrant English Project, Brighton:
- Voluntary teaching to an Iranian man one-to-one, focussing on his areas of interest and topics of his choice, to provide a supportive environment for him to further his English fluency.
August 2007: WILS Language School, Seoul, South Korea:
- Responsibilities involved planning and organising a schedule for the summer school with a group of four other teachers as well as teaching and caring for twenty 8-14 year old children. Classes took place every day for five hours and were followed by activities and supported homework sessions.
April-July 2006: Inca Tupac-Yupanky High School, Chinchero, Peru:
- Three months voluntary teaching at a local high school with five classes of 11-15 year olds at beginner-lower intermediate levels.
October 2005-March 2006: King Charles Adult Education Centre, Surrey:
- Four months teaching evening classes to migrants at First Certificate and elementary levels. Difficulties included supporting an Afghani man who was unable to read or write in the English script and preparing the FCE class for their exam following a disruptive term.
October 2005-March 2006: 'Free Talking' Online Programme:
- Four months teaching and conversation classes with a Korean girl via the internet to improve her fluency and conversational skills.
Tutoring Approach:
I believe in a patient and flexible approach to tutoring, with a strong emphasis on the student, their areas of difficulty, their interests and their pace of understanding. I also believe in creativity and using creative lesson materials and alternative approaches to help students to see their difficulty from another approach.
Subjects Taught:
Qualifications:
- MSc Africa and International Development (Merit)
- BA (Hons) Literature 2.1
- CELTA qualification: PASS
- A-Levels: French (B), English (A), History (A), AS-Level: Art (B), Critical Thinking (B)
Further Information:
| Availability: | Weekdays (all times) |
| Types of Tutoring: | Travels to you / From their home / Online |
| References Supplied? | Yes |
| Current DBS/CRB Check? | Yes |
| Additional Languages Spoken: | German |
