Janet

Highly experienced English teacher and senior examiner who gets excellent results from students.

I am a fully qualified teacher of English with over twenty years of experience in the classroom and eighteen years of employment at a senior level with two different major examination boards. Friendly and professional, I enjoy good working relationships with colleagues and students. My revision guides for GCSE English Literature, Lightbulb Revision, are now published, and writing these means that I can offer tuition for all the major literature texts for almost all exam boards.

Tutoring Experience

My secondary teaching experience has taken me from inner-city comprehensives to a private schools to the international schools of New York and Bangkok. I am currently working in a London comprehensive as an English teacher.

As a Senior Examiner at GCSE level, I feel that I am particularly well-placed to help students studying for their GCSE English and English Literature, with specialist knowledge about how to move students up to higher grades.

I have been providing private English tuition from my home in Woodford Green for ten years, and have always had very positive feedback.

Tutoring Approach

I have always shown complete commitment to the children that I teach, using a wide range of approaches to motivate and and encourage my students.

I understand the need for a warm, supportive environment for the student to progress and to balance teacher-led activities with the student’s own input. Creating personalised resources is also something which I feel can make a big difference to a student’s learning, and I use these within one-to-one tuition.

I find myself much in demand from GCSE students as I have years of expertise at a senior level in examining GCSE English and English Literature. After years of analysing examination scripts at borderline review, I can see how to encourage a student to write in a certain way or add analytical detail to improve their work by enough to push him/her into the next grade boundary.

Recent comments from students/parents:
'Thank you so much for all your help and support; I could not have got through the last exams without you.'
'You are a brilliant teacher.'
'L**** found your lessons very useful'
'Thank you for all your help, he certainly wouldn't have achieved those grades without you.'