Joshua - Bristol tutor





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Information About Joshua:


Personal Description:

Hello! My name`s Joshua. I read Classics at the University of Exeter during which time I studied Latin, Ancient Greek, Ancient Hebrew, and intermediate Russian. My specialisations at University were in Plato`s later works, Greek ethics, and the history and development of the Ancient Novel. After University I picked up Modern Greek, and worked in Crete.

I graduated in the summer of 2010 and have been teaching students throughout the entire time since graduation. I have a real and burning passion for the Classics, which exhibits itself through the boundless enthusiasm with which I have been told I teach! For me there is no greater satisfaction than being able to understand such beautiful and melodious languages or the texts that they have produced. It is a genuine pleasure to impart this onto others, at whatever level.



Teaching Experience:

I started tutoring Latin at entrance level, common entrance, and GCSE level in my Lower Sixth. However, after I finished my A-Levels I took a gap year before University during which time I worked as an Assistant Teacher for an academic year, teaching largely children with learning problems or behavioural difficulties. During this period I continued tutoring privately, and additionally taught in conjunction with a local Young Aspergers Society, an experience which proved very challenging but extremely rewarding!

Following this I went to University where I was forced to discontinue my private tuition. However, I did enrol in the department`s Mentoring Scheme, and from my first year onwards I gave free catch-up lessons to students who were either studying at a lower level than myself, or in my academic year and struggling I did this in both Latin and Greek.

I continued this right up to my graduation, and since then have resumed offering private tuition at a wide range of levels in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Modern Greek.



Tutoring Approach:

My approach to tutoring is diverse and individualistic. No one is the same, and I think teaching has to recognise that. I do not operate on a dogmatic or rigid system of tuition, I will spend the first lesson with a pupil endeavouring to find out how they best learn, and how I can best teach them.

Generally speaking I do not find it best to teach the Classical languages in the way that is traditionally upheld - that is dry, dusty and lifeless teaching! Classics is fun, that may sound cliched, but it can be! My job is to present the subject in such a way that the pupil can appreciate this for themselves. Only when they glean a passion of their own can they truly engage.

Saying this, I must stress that I do not take speedy routes or easy options in terms of my teaching. There is a large and unavoidable element of the Classical languages which involves systematically learning words, tables and paradigms, and, whilst I can try and make the process of learning these as fun as possible, I will not try to avoid them! ssible, I will not avoid them!



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Qualifications:

  • A-Level (Biology): A
  • A-Level (History): A
  • A-Level (Latin) : A
  • Degree (BA Hons): Classics [University of Exeter] First Class

Further Information:

Availability:  Weekends / Weekdays (all times)
Types of Tutoring:   Travels to you / Online
References Supplied?   Yes
Current DBS/CRB Check?   Yes
Additional Languages Spoken:   Latin, Greek, English, Hebrew