Nick

I have been a youth and community worker for over 40 years, working in both formal and informal education with groups and individuals from many different backgrounds over that time. This included help with filling out complex job, benefits and grant application forms.
I also helped people build their confidence with conversation and public speaking, and taught video production as a freelance professional for eight years.

Tutoring Experience

I am currently working for Varsity Tutors and doing private tuition online for students in the UK and USA in English Language, Literature, and Public Speaking.
From 2002 to 2018 I was an external supervisor for the YMCA, specifically for students studying for their Youth and Community Work qualification. Many of these students were not proficient in English, especially when writing complex essays about their work.
Increasingly I used our supervision sessions to go through their essays with them, helping them with spelling, grammar, comprehension, essay structure and so on.
My overall communication and capacity-building skills as a community worker and this specific experience means that I would be best able to support students in this way, helping at an advanced level (GCSE to post-graduate level) with written work, conversation and presentations where students may have English as a first language but who wish to improve it; or students who do not have English as a first language.
Basic principles of good essay writing can be applied to a wide range of topics both in the arts and sciences, so what you need can be customised accordingly.

Tutoring Approach

My approach is customised according to an assessment of the student's needs in the first session. It will be flexible and develop as the student's learning capacity increases and diversifies with my support.