Katrin

A PGCE qualified MFL teacher with 5 years practical teaching experience. Multilingual with a diverse cultural background. Well-honed organisational, time management and administrative skills. Excellent team player and competent working on own initiative. An outgoing person with an engaging, sincere nature. Very passionate and dedicated to teaching Spanish

Personal interests:
Strong passion for travelling; continents visited include Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe.
Travelling has provided the opportunity to enhance my knowledge of varied cultures and helps inspire and educate my young daughter.
Sports activities include cycling and skiing.

Tutoring Experience

• Teaching Spanish to children and adults
• Follow schemes of work to deliver well planned lessons
• Responsible for developing an interest in foreign languages from an early age
  
• Planning, support and teaching of EAL on a one to one basis

Key Skills Information:
Fluent in English, Spanish, Bulgarian and Russian. Basic understanding of Farsi and French.
Teaching Spanish to a variety of nationalities and ages
Planning and teaching EAL on a one to one basis
Marking and assessment
Planning and delivering lessons.
Proficient using MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Tutoring Approach

I use the "Communicative Approach" to teach languages. The communicative approach, as its name suggests, focuses on getting students to communicate—orally and in writing—in real-life scenarios in the target language. A communicative curriculum might be organized thematically, with a unit, for example, that is focused on teaching food vocabulary. After the student memorizes the basic vocabulary, he/she would be encouraged to complete a number of communicative tasks related to that theme, such as making a grocery list in the target language or working with a partner to complete a recipe written in the target language. Explicit grammar instruction is not a core part of this approach, but it is eesential. All four skills are emphasized with the communicative approach: reading, writing, listening, and speaking.