Anna - History tutor - Richmond

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Anna

  • Hourly rate £30
  • Response Time 24h
  • Number of students 12
Anna - History tutor - Richmond
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Recent Cambridge History Graduate offering tuition in History, admissions, and all things essays!

Lesson location

    • Online
    • at your home or in a public place : will travel up to 10 km from Richmond

About Anna

I have two years of part-time tutoring experience, mainly in History and English for GCSE and A-Level, and provide a yearly workshop in Oxbridge and UCAS guidance to my previous state secondary school in Ealing. I also have experience tutoring for entrance exams (i.e. the history section of Eton's Kings Scholarship, Cambridge prep, and admission interviews).

I also volunteered as a Christ's College Representative, the outreach programme at my Cambridge college which aims to make the University more accessible to state school students via tours, talks, and supervision classes run by undergraduates such as myself. Due to this I am also fully DBS checked.

For the last two summers I have volunteered in China on language-based programmes. In my first year of University, I volunteered as an English Language Teacher for a Cambridge based charity, OSCA, for a period of two months in Beijing. As part of a team of six, I was responsible for the running of the camps and teaching English to 120 Chinese children aged 10-16.

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I am a recent History graduate from the University of Cambridge, having graduated in June 2019 with a high 2:1. In my final year I specialised in Modern European History but hold a strong knowledge of other periods across different continents due to the breath and intensity of the Cambridge syllabus.

My main focus is for students currently sitting their GCSE and A Levels, as well as those looking for help with both school and university admissions tests and interviews. What has proved useful with previous tutees and myself at Cambridge is a focus on how best to write history, aiming to think beyond clever sound bites and flowery language that so often accompanies humanities, and instead to place emphasis on clarity and boldness in our writing. It is much more than memorized dates thrown onto a page, the dates can come later. It took me three years at Cambridge to master a solid introduction and conclusion but this is the key to a strong and coherent essay, with some interesting examples found and thrown in the mix!

I believe that getting to the core of history and developing students' historical ability is best served by pushing beyond the boundaries of school textbooks and the 'classics' of historiographical literature and periods. Instead, students should be encouraged to search for more authentic and fascinating primary sources and think of the diversity and growth of current historical opinion over recent years. I will encourage students to bring their own primary sources to my lessons and to begin with a discussion around each as a means of launching us into the period and topic as a whole. I found this particular example useful at University, with Cambridge supervisors doing the same for our weekly sessions - with us as a pair starting the lesson by listening to the French national anthem, watching a short clip from 'The Death of Stalin', and sending postcards to our families (this one is the most interesting - ask me why!). The exercise works well in your free trial lesson with me, as it always me to get a grasp of the students knowledge and creativity when faced with a source that at first appears completely random!

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Rates

Hourly rate

  • £30

Pack prices

  • 5h: £150
  • 10h: £300

online

  • £30/h

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