Maths tutor of KS1 and Lower KS2

A hardworking, committed, motivated Bi-lingual PGCE student who is motivated to combine academic achieveement and placement experience in a challenging teaching role. I am motivated in assisting pupils to reach their full potential by using meaningful and engaging learning startegies alongside appropriate scaffolds to cater to all learning needs within the classroom.I possess communicative interpersonal skills with a charismatic personality. Additionally, I am able to demonstrate a natural aptitude for interacting with others which is vital to build a parent-teacher rapport to boost pupils academic achievement, social and emotional well-being.

Building an inclusive learning environment within my classroom is essential as it allows all children from different backgrounds the same chance to grow and flourish at the same level. To have an inclusive learning environment, you have to be able to reflect on your position as a practitioner to enable good pupil progress and outcomes. I have consistently supported children with learning difficulties and pupils with a range of additional needs. I understand the challenges that this entails and I am able to provide pupils with the correct scaffolds for learning to take place and overcome such challenges by making it accessible to all. For example, when teaching maths to the year 4s in my placement, I provided additional resources such as adapted worksheets, BaseTens and fraction walls. By using concrete representations of numbers, I enabled all pupils to be engaged in their learning and created meaningful experiences.

I am extremely passionate about planning lessons that are creative, innovative, engaging and encourage pupils’ intellectual curiosity. This allows pupils to take accountability for their own learning and develop a love for acquiring knowledge. It also requires the teacher to be organised and take responsibility for resourcing and teaching to a high standard. I displayed these skills when teaching the water cycle in geography to my year 4 class in my first teaching placement. Using my subject knowledge and passion for teaching humanities, I approached teaching this topic in an innovative way so that it could be applied to other subject areas such as science and could also relate to pupils’ own daily lives. My students carried out an experiment in making their own water cycle, this required me to ensure all resources were prepared before the lesson so the lesson was effective and effici