Camillo

I am a driven Postgraduate with master’s degree in International Business and a PGCE in Secondary Business Education. I can speak two different languages other than fluent English which are fluent French, and intermediate Spanish. In a working environment I enjoy new challenges and working under pressure as I believe the harder the goal the more exciting it is, whether it is on my own or as a team. Due to the fact that working with others allows me to possibly learn new ways of doing things as well as helping others with my knowledge. Working as team leader managing a team of 5 people really sought out my leadership skills, and enabled me to carry out tasks required by my employers effectively. I would greatly enjoy partaking in any teaching opportunities and make use of my strong academic career towards teaching. I would love to teach because I like the opportunity to share my knowledge with pupils. As well as, help them learn something new everyday that will help progress them on to a successful academic career and enable them to pursue their dreams and life goals.

Tutoring Experience

My passion and enthusiasm in young children’s education guided me into teaching. Throughout my teaching career, I have taught a broad group of years and sets. Including, years 7 (Computing science), 9 (Business studies), 10 (GCSE & OCR), 11 (OCR), 12 (Finance & AS Level Business) and (13 CTEC & BTEC). This gave me a good understating of the secondary curriculum and effective teaching strategies, also I aim to improve my teaching practice further by working very hard to achieve my targets and improving my strategies.

Every child has different needs and expectations, and it is our responsibility as teachers to consider those needs and expectations. Differentiating and meeting different learners’ needs are key to effective teaching. Therefore, in my teaching practice I always differentiated my students and gave them the opportunity to develop their ability, skills, knowledge and understanding further.

Tutoring Approach

Assessing students’ learning is very important, in order to make sure every student leaves the classroom with what they should have learnt. During my placement, I have been able to try different AFL techniques to assess students learning such as; questioning, think-pair-share, traffic lights, thumbs up/down and post-it notes, where students were asked to write down what they have learnt, what they found very easy and what they found very difficult/need more help on.
As a business studies/Finance teacher, being familiar with and using ICT is essential. During university I studied a module called ‘Data Analysis’, which improved my computing skills further. I also attended two different ICT and Computing sessions to enhance my lessons with interactive white boards, the Internet, videos, voice and sound clips, digital cameras, interactive games and work sheets. In my placement schools I have taken part in number of sessions and meetings such as parents’ evening, staff meetings, INSET days and school visits which enabled me to develop my knowledge as a trainee teacher.

From academic experience as part of a study I carried out a research with my group on ‘How to Effectively Work with the EAL Students’. Which improved my knowledge on how to effectively work with and support the EAL students. I have been an EAL student at some point of my life, however with the support of my parents, teachers and friends I did manage to develop and improve my language skills to the full proficiency. Therefore, I believe considering all students, regardless of ability, learning needs, language, ethical origin or any other factors is one of the key roles of a teacher. In my first placement I had chance to work with the EAL department as there was a girl with a minimum level of English and could only speak French, I really enjoyed the feeling of being able to help a student. It was a great experience for me as it helped me to improve my knowledge on how to best support the EAL students in a classroom practice.