Helen

Helen is a highly successful teacher who has used her experience to create GCSE Masterclass. Helen has been teaching for 20 years and in all that time, has only ever received the highest OFSTED grades for her teaching.
For 7 years, Helen was the Head of Key Stage 4 at the College of North West London. Whilst there, she transformed the department from being deemed “in need of improvement” by OFSTED, to having some of the highest results in the borough.
Whilst working as Head of English GCSE at the prestigious Oak House International School in Barcelona, results in Helen’s GCSE classes were the best the school had ever achieved. She continued to improve them year on year whilst in place.

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Tutoring Experience

14-16 Links Manager
College of North West London-Sep 2010 – Present-11 yrs 3 mos-London
- Managing a large team of lecturers and support staff
- Managing Curriculum of approximately 30 groups cross-college
- Preparing Self-Assessment Reports
- Overseeing Curriculum Development and Improvement Cross-Faculty
- Leading on Behaviour Management and Improvement Systems
- Acting as Internal Verifier
- Managing a budget
- Timetabling
- Data Analysis & benchmarking
- Observing Lessons
- Carrying out Appraisals, setting targets and follow up meetings
- Teaching
- Building Relationships with Schools and Other Partners
- Representing College at a Range of Meetings, Chairing Meetings
- Leading on improvement of schemes of work, lesson plans and lessons
- On Safeguarding Panel

Oak House School
Teacher
Oak House School-Sep 2008 – Aug 2010-2 yrs-Barcelona, Spain
- Teaching English & Maths to GCSE
- Writing Schemes of Work & Lesson Plans
- Creating High Quality Resources

British Council
Teacher Trainer (Fixed Term Contract)
British Council-Jan 2008 – Sep 2008-9 mos-Barcelona, Spain
- Mentoring Staff & Observing Lessons to Improve Staff Performance
- Leading a range of teacher-training sessions
- Teaching EFL & Business English at all Levels

Harrow College
14-16 & E2E Coordinator
Harrow College - Jun 2004 – Dec 2007-3 yrs 7 mos -London
- Writing & Coordinating Schemes of Work and Lesson Plans
- Leading & Supporting Staff
- Teaching English A-Level, Maths GCSE & Functional Skills
- Setting & Marking Student Work & Moderating Coursework
- Chairing & Attending Meetings
- Acting as a Personal Tutor
- Coordinating Exam Entries
- Departmental Behaviour Manager

Crofton School
Lead Learning Mentor
Crofton School -Nov 2001 – Jun 2004 - 2 yrs 8 mos -London, United Kingdom
--Working on a 1-to-1 and small group basis with underachieving Year 11 students to improve their GCSE results
-Managing a small team of staff to improve student attendance, behaviour & academic performance

Tutoring Approach

Instilling the same pride and confidence in education across all children that is usually reserved for those in private education.