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Information About J.:

Personal Description:

I am a fully qualified teacher, who left her teaching position to travel some years ago, and fell in love with the Arctic! After various adventures (including gaining my MA, beginning my PhD and working at the University Writing Centre) I have returned home, and am happily planning to return to teaching. I have just enrolled on a Return to Teaching course in Cambridge and would like very much to continue my work as a tutor in the evenings, both to earn money for my course and because I thoroughly enjoy it!
(September 2008)

Teaching Experience:

In 1989 I graduated from my PGCE course with a Distinction, having focussed specifically on English and History. I then taught in a secondary school in North England for some ten years, before leaving (prior, I thought, to applying for a head of department position) to travel for a year.

On my return I worked as a basic skills, English and Maths tutor on various occasions, and also as a Nanny, before returning to the Arctic where I continued to work with language via an MA and then a PhD course, and as a tutor in the university Writing Centre. Most recently I have worked as a self-employed EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher for adults in Cambridge.

Having decided that I miss full-time teaching, and working with younger students, I am undertaking a Return to Teaching course at Anglia Ruskin University in order to update my knowledge of education policy etc before applying for a position in a school.

Tutoring Approach:

I feel strongly that all teaching should be focussed upon students as individuals, and that it is possible to work through a student's weaknesses by working with their strengths - this generally means that lessons are also more interesting and enjoyable for the student!

Lessons should also be flexible, in that they respond to student's own questions and any problems that they might be having - and yet ultimately focussed on improving specific skills (for example reading aloud, writing clearly or mental arithmatic). Organisation on both sides (teacher and student) is very important - listening to students and working patiently together is vital.

Qualifications:

• BA (Hons) (Archaeology and Ancient History)
• PGCE (English and History) - Distinction
• MA (Anthropology)
• PhD (ongoing research)

Further Information:

Availability:	Weekdays (evenings)
Types of Tutoring:	Travels to you / Online
References Supplied?	Yes
Current DBS/CRB Check?	Yes