Tiziana C

When tutoring, my main qualities are patience and persistence. I have a passion for what I teach and I want my students to feel that their success is important to me. I tutor students in such a way that they will understand the concept. I am able to put pupils at ease despite their issues or failures. I am good with a range of ages and experience levels, and I like to tailor the method of learning to the individual.
I am educated in Italy and Germany, I have tutored students and professionals in three countries I enjoy working with children and young people as well as with adults of different backgrounds. In the past decades I have worked for several language schools, where I have acquired some techniques and I have used different methods of teaching.
All approaches are useful, when learning languages, and in my experience learning a language depends very much on personal motivation and on a competent training, rather than an inborn ability. In a teaching strategy a friendly approach is a great help, especially when it comes to memorising vocabulary and understanding grammar. In fact when I work with students with just basic knowledge of the language, I always make sure that students feel high valued in what they have learned, and they take pride of the progress they have made.
Languages are not only about commitment and dedication, but are also fun; a student who has fun learning is a successful student. That is why kind manners and teaching techniques play a great role in a successful learning process. Both help to overcome the fear of speaking and the fear of failing. An attempt to articulate a full sentence is not a failure; success or fluency means being humble and persistent with trying once more.
I have a particular interest in teaching beginners, because I can start to set a structure of how to learn, but I teach all ages and abilities. In order to achieve a complete fluency the best approach is a playful but firm one. I agree that students can learn a second language using the same method as they learnt their first language.
Last year I have had excellent experience of tutoring GCSE German, Italian and Latin, with several of my students achieving high grades. I have gained experience of independent schools as academies. I do enjoy volunteering in schools because it gives me the opportunity to support a young person at the very early stage of its career.
Please get in touch for availability, weekly lessons are shown on my calendar.