LoginThom - Lechlade tutor
Information About Thom:
Personal Description:
Spanish was the first language I learned after English, as my grandparents taught my sister and I from a young age. I was fascinated by foreign languages and wanted to learn more, which was how I ended up learning French and German. I took my Spanish and French GCSEs outside school, with help from my grandparents in order to be able to take all three of these languages up to that level.
I am now a third-year student of BA Finnish and Russian at University College London, and I completed A-Levels in French, German and Spanish.
Teaching Experience:
Tutoring began for me online, teaching English as a foreign language. My first tutee was a native Russian speaker, with whom I am still in contact. She now studies at university in English in the US, and has moved on to learn Spanish which I speak well and have continued to teach her via Skype.
In 2018 I had the opportunity to start tutoring a Spanish student alongside her weekly classroom lessons. Upon her recommendation, another member of her Spanish class approached me for her own tutoring and I suggested teaching the two of them together, something I thoroughly enjoyed and which gave me valuable experience working with two tutees at once.
Since March 2020 I have been tutoring regularly online and have built up a network of tutees of various subjects.
My other teaching experience includes a work experience placement in a secondary school in Germany during which I led classroom lessons of English and worked with SEN students. Alongside studying for my A-Levels I worked with younger Spanish students as a teaching assistant within my school.
Tutoring Approach:
What I find most important when it comes to keeping my students inspired is giving them the chance to apply the skills they are learning. It's easy to get bogged down learning grammatical concept after grammatical concept, lists of vocabulary and verb conjugations, but it's vital that we don't lose sight of why we started learning in the first place. With this in mind, I make sure we spend as much time speaking, writing about topics relevant to the student and consuming authentic written and audible media in the target language. The feeling of managing to express something meaningful to you or of understanding a line of a song you love in your target language is incredibly valuable but often overlooked.
Subjects Taught:
- Russian
- Up to 11 years (primary) (£35 p.h.)
- 11+ (secondary) (£35 p.h.)
- GCSE or Standards (£35 p.h.)
- Spanish
- Up to 11 years (primary) (£35 p.h.)
- 11+ (secondary) (£35 p.h.)
- GCSE or Standards (£35 p.h.)
- A-Level or Highers (£35 p.h.)
- Adult/Casual learner (£35 p.h.)
- German
- Up to 11 years (primary) (£35 p.h.)
- 11+ (secondary) (£35 p.h.)
- GCSE or Standards (£35 p.h.)
- A-Level or Highers (£35 p.h.)
- Adult/Casual learner (£35 p.h.)
- French
- Up to 11 years (primary) (£35 p.h.)
- 11+ (secondary) (£35 p.h.)
- GCSE or Standards (£35 p.h.)
- A-Level or Highers (£35 p.h.)
- Adult/Casual learner (£35 p.h.)
- English
- Up to 11 years (primary) (£35 p.h.)
- 11+ (secondary) (£35 p.h.)
- GCSE or Standards (£35 p.h.)
- Adult/Casual learner (£35 p.h.)
- English (Foreign Language)
- Up to 11 years (primary) (£35 p.h.)
- 11+ (secondary) (£35 p.h.)
- GCSE or Standards (£35 p.h.)
- A-Level or Highers (£35 p.h.)
- Further/Higher (university) (£35 p.h.)
- Adult/Casual learner (£35 p.h.)
Qualifications:
- A-Levels in Spanish, French and German
- BA Russian and Finnish (in progress 3rd year)
- Level 5 TEFL
Further Information:
| Availability: | Weekends / Weekdays (all times) |
| Types of Tutoring: | Online |
| References Supplied? | Yes |
| Current DBS/CRB Check? | Yes |
| Additional Languages Spoken: | English, Spanish, German, French, Finnish |
