Online English Tutor Michael

As a qualified secondary school classroom teacher with a PGCE (distinction), QTS, and a first class Master's degree I have tutored students one-to-one and in small groups for the past fifteen years. I have also tutored students outside of class time in small groups and one-to-one in essay writing, annotation, critical thinking, personal statement writing and interview technique. In my fifteen years of teaching in the UK and international schools around the world I have covered all the bases, having taught Key Stage 3, GCSE, IGCSE, MYP, IBDP, A Level years of curriculum experience is in teaching Key Stage 3, IGCSE and IB/A level English. In that time I have never had a failure (less than 4 in IB, or a C in A level) I have developed complete units of work on dozens of texts based on curriculum documentation, taught a full time-table (twenty-five hours a week) to classes ranging in size from one student to as many as thirty. I have worked as an acting head of department, IB Language A self-study coordinator, and coach of public speaking and debating programmes. I have also worked as a senior examiner of IB Language and Literature, working in a small team with the chief examiner to standardize the marking of other examiners and to set the grade boundaries of the May and November exams each year. This has given me a special insight into what is required for exam preparation. I am currently 'writing up' a PhD in English at Queen Mary, University of London, because I hope to transition into academia, but I do love working in the 15-18 age range. That is where I am at my best! I look forward to tutoring you on this site!

I am currently doing a PhD at Queen Mary, University of London on 19th century literature.

I have written schemes of work (units) for typical IB and IGCSE text choices, amounting to about 15GB of data, which will be available to you, along with past papers, model answers, and other resources from my classroom teaching. Authors who i have enjoyed teaching include Chimamanda Adichie, Marjane Satrapi, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Henrik Ibsen, Albert Camus, Oscar Wilde.

I think that I am at my best teaching poetry, and I have loads of resources for making this interesting and relevant!