Dawn

I am a UK qualified Spanish and French teacher and an experienced online tutor. I am a speaking examiner for a private exam centre and an exam assessor for a major UK exam board. I teach school students and home educated students from the UK and overseas, via the internet and occasionally from my home.

I am just as interested in helping a confident student achieve a top grade as helping another student nudge their grade up to a comfortable pass. As a parent too, I am aware of the importance of the need to meet a learner at their own level, and inspire them in the subject, as much as possible.

Tutoring Experience

I taught French and Spanish up to A Level at schools and I then began tutoring from home when my eldest son was born. I started teaching via Zoom in 2019.

Each year students come to me for help with AQA and Edexcel GCSEs as well as Edexcel and Cambridge IGCSEs, and I am used to helping them prepare for particular exams.

For A Level, I am familiar with Edexcel, AQA and Eduqas for both French and Spanish. I do speaking A Level and AS exams in the summer. At this level students often want help with the Speaking exam or general support for grammar and essay writing.

During exam seasons, I conduct speaking exams for all the different boards, at private exam centres and I have been marking GCSE scripts and recordings since 2004.

Tutoring Approach

I make lessons as varied as possible, usually focusing on a few different topic areas in a sitting and trying to increase students' confidence to build on their skills. For GCSE/A Level students I can quickly identify gaps in knowledge and areas that can be built on, to boost grades. Nearer exam time I am prepared to hone in on whichever skills need more practice.

Although I can follow whichever syllabus/exam board a student is using, my lessons are always tailor made, to fit around the individual student's needs, abilities and time scale. I can set homework to maximise the lesson time and supply and mark past papers as required.

I currently have some spaces if students need emergency help for an aspect of the exam, but I can also schedule in a longer term plan. I can liaise over unusual times, to fit around overseas students or fit around free periods for sixth formers.