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Nicole L

£30/hr

A fully qualified ENGLISH teacher with 6 years' experience, inc. SEN.

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Nicole is a passionate, warm and friendly qualified English teacher with many years experience in School and College settings. Nicole takes the time to really understand her students needs, adapting and tailoring the lessons to help them achieve success.

A bit about Nicole L

I an experienced teacher after having worked in different settings, with a variety of different learners. I have specialised in English, lead a cohort of teachers and established relationships with learners who needed a boost. My teaching experience has gone from assisting and guiding ASC learners in their bespoke way, I have taught in an SEBD/SEMH and further education setting, as well as working along side multi-agencies to expand knowledge bases who are in the care setting. My work is done around the leaner and their needs. I am an advocate that each learner has different learning styles, and needs different adaptations to establish their preferred learning culture. I specialise in English Language at a GCSE level with the exam board AQA - I have been teaching with them for over 6 years. However, I understand the English curriculum fully throughout the Key stages, an over AQQ, OCR and City and guilds. I teach functional skills at all levels for all ages. Lastly, I can also teach primary school learners too. From what my leaner has told me in their introduction session, and what we have discussed their needs and wants to be, I will always have an agenda/a plan and what I feels needs to be covered in the lesson to achieve the end goal. However, I will never continue with a lesson if the learner is not engaged. I will stick to what needs to be taught, but how I teach it will change. For example: the original ‘plan’ of a game, that I feel the leaner is not engaging with, will change to a ‘I do you do’ task. Every lesson will be different for each leaner. I have tutored since my first teaching post around 6 years ago. This started with an ASC learner who participated well and was eager to learn in my lessons. Therefore, I was approached to tutor him one hour a week. Reluctant at first, but always up for a challenge, I put my right foot forward and didn’t stop until the proud moment of that learner passing their GCSE happened. Realisation hit me that i can have more of an involvement and enhance learners knowledge base on a 1-1 level and help everyone to achieve. I have been told on many occasions I am captivating, I can obtain a learners attention for the appropriate period of time to enable them to understand the topic. I also, like to explain the topic, in various different ways, again to enable the learner to succeed. Also, I like my lessons to be interactive, this way it gets them involved without having that ‘normal’ classroom PowerPoint approach. I live this question because I think most people can relate. My very own form tutor and I, didn’t have a great relationship. She connotated me as the ‘loud, out spoken’ one of the group. When in actual fact, there were underlying issues about myself I didn’t want to confront and she didn’t take the time to understand (not that I ever expected her to). Anyway, she told me I wouldn’t make it in life. After that, I was determined to become a teacher and to show her I can succeed. I wanted to have a completely different approach to teaching as she had to. I wanted to not only teach but make an educational difference to individuals. Not by becoming a friend, as I think there’s a very fine professional line, but by being an understanding ear and a positive light in their life to give them that ‘can do’ attitude.

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English
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KS3
 £30/hr
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GCSE
 £30/hr
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Primary
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