Alexander

I am a professional tutor with several years experience and freelance filmmaker. I love teaching and approach tutoring by first getting a sense of what a student`s approach to their work is like. I like to initially come to a good understanding of my students before building confidence and tailoring lessons to their likes.

I have previously tutored students that have successfully entered schools such as Westminster, Latymer, Kew House, and Haberdashers.

I have a strong academic background, with a 1st from Oxford in Philosophy and Russian. I also have 11A*s at GCSE and 2A*s and 2As at A level in Russian, Maths & Further Maths, and English. My Russian A-level mark was the highest in the country. I also won an honorary scholarship to Westminster School.

Availability: I am currently available for tuition on Wednesdays other than 5pm-6.30pm when I tutor in Chelsea.

I am always available for sessions via Skype online and will generally make time for intensive or longer term residential placements.

Willing to travel: 5 miles

Experience: I love teaching, and have been tutoring for 5 years since I finished school. Please see above for a more detailed summary of how my tuition experience breaks down:

13+ Residential Placement, August, 2016
• Working intensely a SEN pupil to improve Maths & Science at the family home.
• Particular focus on learning to tell the time and times tables before moving on to cover ground on all sorts of weak areas in the syllabus. Pupil finished the placement with a huge confidence boost.

6 pupils for 13+ Tuition, English Literature Focus, January-July, 2016
• Tutoring for Charterhouse, Winchester, Bryanston, Kew House, two short term residential placements.
• Concentrating on developing strategies for Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning, improving English
comprehension ability, improving confidence of several pupils who dislike Maths & Science subjects.

7 pupils for 11+ Tuition, January-July, 2016
• Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning, English, and Maths tuition for school entry. One SEN pupil with dyspraxia who I help by building confidence and organisational skills, another very engaging SEN pupil with ADD and anxiety about exams who I help primarily with exam technique. One excellent pupil pushing for entry to top schools who needs help with harder end of exam type questions.

Eton Scholarship Entrance, December-January 2015-6
• Intensive Latin and French preparation for challenging Eton scholarship exams.
• Working to deepen grammar knowledge and develop advanced approaches to translating difficult texts.

Study Skills Help with Year 1-3, English Literacy Focus August-October, 2015
• Very rewarding work as a teaching assistant at St. Cuthbert with St. Matthias Primary School .
• Help often challenging pupils to concentrate on their work during homework club.

4 pupils for Philosophy from GCSE – to A level tuition, September-December, 2015
• Tutoring a student to resit Philosophy AS-level exam for university entry, successfully went form U to A*. Improving exam technique for two GCSE pupils, pushing for a top grade on challenging Pre-U texts with another student
• Working on exam technique along with confidence, precision and eloquence in handling philosophically complex material.

2 pupils for 7+ Tuition, Focus on English Literature September-January, 2015-6
• Developed basic storytelling skills, handwriting, and vocab knowledge with an excellent maths student with less strong English.
• Worked on exam technique for Colet Court entry with a strong Maths & English student.
Teaching English as a foreign language, Russia, November-January, 2014
• Taught a 27 year old Russian student basic English reading skills for state university exams, which he passed with a 5 –the top mark after previously getting 3s, one of the worst marks.
• Worked on improving pronunciation and grammar skills.

French Tuition, Russia, November-January, 2014
• Taught a 21 year old Russian student basic French grammar skills for state university exams, with a particular focus on improving her understanding of verb conjugations.

GCSE Latin Tuition, November-January, 2010-1
• Honed exam technique on translations for a strong pupil looking to maximize his chances of an A*.
• Worked on trickier grammar constructions such as subjunctives and ablative absolutes.

Teaching English as a foreign language, China, February, 2011
• Taught kindergarten and secondary school students in Yangzhou, China.
• Significantly developed basic language skills and confidence in speaking through teaching nursery rhymes and songs to classes of 50 children in kindergarten with no spoken English upon arrival
• Honed secondary school students’ fluency and confidence in spoken English through leading exercises in conversation

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