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Information About Iain:

Personal Description:

I am a creative, energetic and empathetic individual, keen to help students achieve their potential by enabling them to identify areas of development, strategies to overcome challenges and also by supporting them in acknowledging their achievements.

My arts background has contributed to my person-centred approach in focusing on an individual and how they can celebrate their unique strengths, which I feel is integral in order to be able to work on developing areas of challenge. I also feel that enables me to use my sense of humour, both to make content engaging and relatable, as well as breaking any ice, particularly when dealing with challenging topics.

Teaching Experience:

I have taught for 4 years in various further education environments, both paid and voluntarily. I have taught GCSE English for 2 academic years, both on the pre-2016 and post-2016 AQA syllabuses as well as on the Cambridge IGCSE specifications, as well as advising students studying OCR, EDEXCEL and Pearson specifications.
I have also delivered literacy classes for adults working between entry-level 2 and level 1 functional skills. Additionally I have ran employability workshops, and devised relevant activities to help engage and empower the learners.
My most recent employment experience has been as a Dyslexia Study Skills Support tutor in higher education, primarily working with DSA funded students, helping them identify areas of development, setting SMART goals, and working on developing strategies to help them progress with their respective programmes. I have also worked as a 1:1 study support tutor within further education, focusing on developing literacy and numeracy, as well as time management and assignment reviewing.

Tutoring Approach:

I feel it is absolutely vital to apply a person-centred approach to tutoring - the student must be supported in identifying their areas of development, and I feel one of my key roles is to work with the student to set targets and goals, identifying what to work on, and how this can be achieved, as well as setting a realistic time scale, which will enable me to devise a broad scheme of work.

Each session I deliver will have clears aims and objectives, and will link to the targets and goals I will have set with the student. I feel it is important to give the student as much opportunity as possible to independently pursue solutions, and will support them in doing so. I also acknowledge the importance of plenary and review activities in order for the student to be able to measure the value-added in learning from their session.

Qualifications:

• PGCE Post Compulsory Education
• MA Creative Writing
• BA (Hons) Drama & English
• A Levels English Literature, Drama, History

Further Information:

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