Tutor providing lessons for History and Law at GCSE, A-Level and Degree Level

I hold a Bachelor's Degree in History and a Master's degree in International Law. I have experience teaching legal workshops in Cape Town and tutoring younger students during my degrees in both History and Law.

The key to effective teaching requires engagement with a syllabus that goes beyond simply teaching the information students are expected to remember. It also needs to engage with the methodologies employed by markers to determine the level of expertise a student has in their subject. This is particularly important in humanities subjects where there is often not one clear, straightforward answer, and students will have a variety of ways to approach questions.

The added benefit of teaching this way is that it imparts skills to students beyond knowledge retention and encourages them to engage more broadly with the processes that determine their grades. Encouraging critical engagement in this way also enables students to act more purposefully within their learning and can be really key to helping those who are good at retaining information, which appears to be the objective of humanities courses, but perhaps are not fully engaging with assessment criteria, which is absolutely vital for attaining higher grades.