Qualified English teacher (TESOL), Business, Cambridge Exams and Young Learners

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Posted by Gabriele Italy 2/28/2020 5:28:31 PM

Hi, I'm a qualified English teacher. Private lessons for - General English - Business English - Cambridge exam preparation - Young learners from 3 to 20 years old
My teaching career is still young, I qualified with a TEFL certificate in January 2020, and I have been able to teach a group in person for one month before moving to individual online lessons due to the quarantine. I bring with me a wealth of experience in lessons from life, challenging myself, relating with people in order to best work with them and logistical problem solving. I enjoy a challenge, and this has been exactly that, a period of intense change with a lot to learn. I have been able to adapt, change and develop my preparation and delivery to work online with a good rapport and good progress. I have used my training, and guidance from established teaching materials such as 'Speak Out' and 'Face 2 Face', to adapt and create materials that are appropriate for my students. I believe that when the topics are relevant and exciting students will be in the strongest position to learn. When teaching a group of people similar in age to me, I discovered that we shared an interest in travel, so I used photos and videos from my time in different countries to contextualize the lessons. I also ensure the learning content follows a logical and strategical pathway to achieve embedded learning, these followed a pattern of recap, teach, discuss and apply. I build a good rapport with my classes and an environment for celebration of success, open discussion and learning from mistakes. Everyone has to start somewhere, and initially feedback from training peers was that I needed to improve time management (I finished early on my first two lessons) which has taught me to always prepare relevant and accessible extra materials to consolidate or recap learning and make the most of lesson time. This personal reflection and response to guidance is now a routine part of my preparation for teaching. Not every student has been similar in age to me – I have worked with 4-year olds in an international nursery and retired teachers in their 60s - but I still find a way to individualize the lesson to appeal to the needs of the student. When teaching an anthropologist who wants to improve conversational English, I have used current news articles and research topics to create a debate. While doing this, I provide a glossary of word meanings specific to the field of research and ensure there is also a focus on grammar. I have employed my strong organizational skill to transcribe and send the articles to them prior to the lesson, allowing us to maximize the lesson time. I use questioning to assess understanding. This student has continued lessons for 4 months, is satisfied with the service I provide, and is making good progress. I hope to continue my career in teaching online and to bring my enthusiasm and experience to the team. I would describe myself as outgoing, adventurous, positive and considerate. I aim to live my life with variety, and I take every opportunity I can to learn and to understand people, nature, places and cultures. I have lived in places from the Amazon to California, Rome to Israel, and I have followed a path which allows me to search, discover and learn. I have had jobs working in conservation or community aid, mixology or mixed-media animation, videography to video-based teaching. They say that all roads lead to Rome and that is exactly where I am, initiating a career in teaching English. I love to travel and have been fortunate to experience some of the most beautiful places. It has given me a greater appreciation of the diversity of nature and of our responsibility in caring for our planet. This summer, for obvious reasons, I have taken the opportunity to discover and rediscover parts of Italy; mountains, coasts, cities. Travel to me is a way to know yourself, face yourself and realign who you are when in a new place with a different culture. I am a curious person and I want to experience all I can about the others on an anthropological level. I am self-aware and recognize aspects of my own culture, so I also see the differences and respect them. It helps me when teaching as I have the experience of relating to people and finding ways to connect. When unable to travel I explore within my mind by watching films and documentaries, reading research and scientific studies (mostly about history or nature) and novels that provide a cross over between these aspects real and imagined – a personal favourite is Dante's Divine Comedy. I like music but am no musician (ask my cats about the renditions of Bohemian Rhapsody!). I like to create. I spend time creating using woodworking skills, crafting with needlework and (naturally, as an Italian) creating in the kitchen.

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