Sofia Weaver

For history, my favourite subject in the world, I prefer to use real life sources and case studies to immerse in the gritty details, as well as fun quizzes and games (with prizes of chocolate!) around the topics. I am also very keen on explaining essay structures for older students, and am determined to not let history fall to the dusty textbook on your shelf. As for Spanish, there are so many ways to learn another language, and one of my favourite is choosing a topic, discussing it in English, and then transferring those original thoughts to a format that can be easily translated to Spanish. English itself as a subject is another of my specialties, and one key method that I use is acting out the text of whatever medium your are studying, which is both very funny and gets you interested and thinking deeper about the characters and their motivations. I am a performer at heart and love music and dance in any format, so if I can incorporate that into any subject, be it Spanish, history, or English, I will absolutely take the opportunity! One method that I’ve found worked brilliantly for me and the students I shared it with was writing parodies of songs and changing to lyrics to be about key history facts and dates. If this sounds appealing to you, I can absolutely write one about the topic you’re studying! Overall, I want to make learning a fun and genuinely interesting experience, and rather than purely focusing on results, I want to help build the motivation and interest in subjects that naturally leads to success!