Elena Giulia

Native Italian speaker, I have a post-graduate education in Classics and experiences in Language teaching. I have 10 years of tutoring experience and 3 of school experience. I have a calm, composed and friendly approach when under pressure, and genuinely enjoy helping pupils and colleagues. Enthusiastic and hard working person who is highly motivated and determined.

Availability: Every day, included Saturdays and Sundays.

Willing to travel: 10 miles

Experience: I am Italian, and I studied Classics in Rome in my University “La Sapienza” for five years during which I taught Latin and Greek privately to students from ages 13 to 20 years old. Afterwards I worked as a teacher of Humanities for two years in a secondary private school, continuing to give private lessons.
It was challenging for me, but satisfying. I had the opportunity to work with some students suffering from learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, and attention deficit disorder and I helped in their improvement every day. They were skilled, highly motivated and, as me, fond of the Classic languages, in which they achieved eventually very good results with my help. It has been interesting for me to see how every single student was able to understand these subjects in his own personal way, and at the same time how I was constantly learning by my everyday teaching experience. I think that the greatest advantage of being a teacher is the opportunity to learn from your students and thus help them develop their own skills.
I worked in my University in Rome “La Sapienza” for two research projects during my last three years of Masters studies. I collected evidence of Etruscan History in Latin Literature, in order to create a database organized on the basis of hundreds of key-words. I spent those years working alone in the library, where I soon discovered that I was really missing my teaching hours. That database project was both fascinating and stimulating, but there was no person beside me to share what I was discovering.
I decided then, after having obtained a degree as Archivist in the Vatican School of Paleography, Diplomatics and Archives, to move to Dublin, Ireland, in order to attend a MA course in Classics at University College Dublin. I wanted to deepen my knowledge in Classical studies and to improve my Greek and Latin language skills.
My wish is to teach Latin and Greek, and also my native language Italian, and so I attended a Teaching Italian as Foreign Language (TIAFL) degree in London last June.