Teacher of English

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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Aberystwyth University of Wales and continued my studies with a Post Graduate certificate of Education from the Institute of Education, UCL, London, which has been ranked as the world's number one education institution for ten years running. I continued my relationship with the Institute of Education with my Masters degree. After many months of intensive reading and research into the impact of multimodality on learning in English classrooms, my work was published in the English teaching journal: ‘Changing English’.  

To sum up my approach to education in one phrase it would be: 'who are the learners and what do they know?' - these are the words that were shared with me on my first day of teacher education and they have stayed with me ever since. I always aim to get to know the learners in my classroom and use our different perspectives and experiences to inform our understanding in English lessons.

Since completing my training as a teacher I have worked at an outstanding school in London, UK and then worked in a prestigious British School in Madrid, Spain where I also took on the roles of Head of Year and Sustainable Development Coordinator and secured a place for our Sustainability Club to speak to the United Nations at the COP Summit in Madrid, an unforgettable experience for everyone involved.

I haven't always been a teacher and my previous life involved working as a Music Editor for a blog with 1 million monthly readers, I have been a Copywriter for a leading e-commerce site and also spent some time working in IT management, but none of these compare to the enjoyment that teaching brings.