Information About Lisa - Teignmouth teacher -

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Personal Description:

Please note that I am based in Torquay and am currently offering lessons via zoom.

I have been teaching for over 20 years. My personal philosophy is that anyone can learn a language if they are given the right tools and are shown how to learn. I am creative, serious, academic, thorough and systematic in my approach to lesson planning. Having lived abroad for many years and as a language student, I have many cross-cultural abilities, I am open-minded, approachable, bright and friendly. I am an enthusiastic and self motivated person who believes that we can achieve whatever we set our minds to, and this is what I hope and aim to pass onto my students. I returned to live in Devon in July 2017 and since then have been teaching international students and also more recently have been teaching Spanish to GCSE level in a local school.

Teaching Experience:

During my degree and after my PGCE I worked as an English language assistant in Spain and Santiago, Chile.

After finishing my PGCE, I taught French to key stage 3 and Spanish to GCSE and A-level. I then moved to Madrid, Spain where I lived and taught English with The British Council for around 9 years. More recently, I taught English in a school in Barcelona where my students achieved excellent Cambridge Exam results at First Certificate, Advanced and Proficiency level.

I am an inquisitive teacher who believes in life-long learning and have attended many training sessions during my time in Spain on different aspects of language learning. I have copious methods and skills in building reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. I am adept at teaching grammar and error correction. I love teaching and know that I can help you to achieve whatever language goals you may set.

Teaching Approach:

The old adage of “one learns by doing” would probably be the best way to describe my teaching approach. As an experienced and highly capable teacher, language learner and a graduate in psychology I have a deep understanding of learning theories and how people learn.

In my classes I teach language but also the skills, methods, ways of thinking that make language learning easier. I also make my students question what they believe of themselves as language learners, so as to have a more positive regard of their ability.
We learn language through the language learning activities we engage in and our language learning environment. Therefore in my classes I crea**Contact Detail Removed**arning situations that bring the language to life, make people think for themselves and create their own understanding of the language. In this way, they construct a deeper understanding of the language and are more able to produce it in writing and speech in the future. I teach from a communicative approach and build knowledge up through a continuum in a progressive but systematic way.

Depending on the type of focus you have for your class will depend on the type of lesson I teach. Therefore part of the first lesson together will involve a needs analysis to enable me to prepare highly functional lessons for your needs.

Finally, I am a patient teacher who genuinely understands the needs, worries, anxieties and abilities of language learners. I look forward to hearing about your language learning needs.