Stephen Reilly Jr

I love teaching most of all and this'll be evident in my lessons. I've been teaching for 25-odd years and have taught all levels and ages, and many subjects: English language, French, mathematics, arithmetic, English literature, linguistics among others.
My classes are about students' learning more than my teaching as I see myself more as a facilitator of learning than a 'teacher': the 'guide on the side' rather than the 'sage on the stage' so to speak.
I speak other languages too and I'm a language learner besides being a language teacher. I've lived in London, Paris, the south and north of France, Haiti, Egypt, and spent time in Spain and Ireland. I'm also well travelled having visited most of Western Europe, and some of the Middle East.
I've had several proud teaching moments in my career. One was seeing an entire class of students pass their IGCSE, in other words a 100 per cent pass rate. Another was coaching a couple of students to A grades in the Cambridge CPE exam. A third was giving students a creative writing task and encouraging a student to send it off to the Guardian newspaper: it got published in the Saturday magazine. Others have included organising talks on European affairs for the British Council and putting on plays. And I've also gotten an award for special needs work: I got visually impaired students to train teachers on how to teach students with visual impairment. It was, as you might imagine, a huge success. And I look forward to many other moments of pride within the course of my teaching.