Information About Patrizia - Aberdeen teacher -

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Personal Description:

I am Patrizia and I am Italian Language native.
In my professional experience as a teacher in Italy, I took part in school projects with which I also taught Italian to foreign children.
Currently, I am a On-line Italian Language Tutor of a 7 years old girl and of a 32 years old boy.
I like very much teach the Italian Language, with 1 to 1 lessons, for all age groups and levels of knowledge of the language.

Teaching Experience:

Dates: From June 2020
Occupation or position held: On-line Italian Language Tutor (for children and adults)
Name and address of the employer: Private families in UK
Types of business or sector: Teaching

Dates: From 01/09/2016 to 31/08/2018
Occupation or position held: SEN Nursery Teacher of a pupil whit autism at the Nursery School “Aporti” in Verona
Name and address of the employer: Provincial School Office of Verona – Verona (MIUR) (Italy)
Types of business or sector: Education

Dates: From: 01/09/2015 to 31/08/2016
Occupation or position held: SEN Nursery Teacher of two pupils whit autism at the Nursery School “Aquilone” in Verona
Name and address of the employer: Provincial School Office of Verona – Verona (MIUR) (Italy)
Types of business or sector: Education

Dates: From 01/09/2014 to 30/06/2015
Occupation or position held: SEN Nursery Teacher of a pupil whit behavioral disorders at the Nursery School
“S.Bartolomeo” in Trento
Name and address of the employer: “Provincial Federation of Nursery Schools”, 34/1 De Gasperi Alcide Street – Trento (Italy)
Types of business or sector: Education

Dates: From 2011 to 2013
Occupation or position held: Supply Nursery Teacher
Name and address of the employer: Many Nursery Schools in Cagliari and in other near cities (Italy)
Types of business or sector: Education

Dates: From 20/11/2012 to 27/11/2012
Occupation or position held: Supply Nursery Teacher
Name and address of the employer: Nursery School “La Mia Favola”, Road number 3, Loc. Poggio dei Pini – Capoterra (CA) (Italy)
Types of business or sector: Education

Teaching Approach:

The method that I generally use to teach Italian language is: Total Physical Response (TPR).
Total Physical Response (TPR) is a language teaching method developed by James Asher, a professor emeritus of psychology at San José State University. It is based on the coordination of language and physical movement. In TPR, teachers give commands to students in the target language with body movements, and students respond with whole-body actions.
The method is an example of the comprehension approach to language teaching. The listening and responding (with actions) serves two purposes: It is a means of quickly recognizing meaning in the language being learned, and a means of naturally learning the structure of the language itself.
With this method the grammar can be learned from the language input. TPR is a valuable way to learn vocabulary, especially idiomatic terms, e.g… phrasal verbs.
Asher developed TPR as a result of his experiences observing young children learning their first language.
He noticed that interactions between parents and children often took the form of speech from the parent followed by a physical response from the child. Asher made three hypotheses based on his observations: first, that language is learned primarily by listening; second, that language learning must engage the right hemisphere of the brain; and third, that learning language should not involve any stress.
The TPR is popular with beginners and with young learners, although it can be used with students of all levels and all age groups.