Information About Oliver - Hinckley teacher

Personal Description:

Keen traveller and language lover with a love of music, art and social interaction. Fluent in Spanish after living in Spain for many years and successfully building a life here. Now it's my desire to share my language abilities with others who also desire it!

Teaching Experience:

- Over 2 years experience teaching English to Spanish students in Spain and teaching Spanish to English students in the UK

- Experience teaching Children English in academies in Granada, Spain

- Over 2 years teaching Spanish online to students, primarily via skype.

- Experience teaching English with online companies (For example: Say ABC)

Teaching Approach:

My teaching style is fun, inviting and friendly. I never discourage or force - creating an open space to make mistakes and grow, however I'm not afraid to challenge students to think and act for themselves.

I can play an active-teaching role by guiding activities and class topics, but also firmly believe in the importance of allowing students to guide conversations and topics and think outside the box.

Expect a lot of very visual learning with props and hand gestures, but also a range of teaching methods/ styles, for example:

- Visual - Use of whiteboard to write/ spell out word and draw a picture/ or use a picture.

- Auditory - Pronouncing word slowly and making students repeat multiple times and progressively say faster -
and to stress intonation and feel of the word.

- Kinesthetic - Act out word/ action of word and make students imitate or perhaps ask them to draw a picture of the word. A suitable prop can be used here.