Henry - English tutor - London
Henry - English tutor - London

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Henry

  • Rate $459
  • Response 1h
  • Students

    Number of students Henry has accompanied since arriving at Superprof

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    Number of students Henry has accompanied since arriving at Superprof

Henry - English tutor - London
  • 5 (52 reviews)

$459/hr

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Durham and KCL graduate with rigorous systematic methodology for teaching 11+ English skills

  • English

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About Henry

I have over 2000 hours of tutoring experience, during which time I have developed a highly successful systematic method for teaching English as an academic subject at 11 and 13+ levels.

My students have achieved success in both entrance exams and scholarships for top schools including but not limited to: St Paul's, City of London, Highgate, Haberdashers, Merchant Taylors', St Albans, Latymer Upper and City of London

My programme is a synthesis of a wide body of knowledge and experience accumulated from studying multiple disciplines and working in different contexts over a number of years. It combines my understanding of language analysis and writing from studying English literature with clinical critical and systemic thinking in Philosophy, along with insights into the structure of skill-development and learning theory from my experiences playing, studying and coaching tennis.

Integrating this knowledge with thousands of hours of tutoring lessons has enabled me to develop a rigorous methology for teaching all the core academic skills required to suceed at 11 and 13+ English which provides a reliable guarantee of significant improvement to both the performance and confidence of my students, leaving them well-placed to both succeed in their entrance exams and derive greater enjoyment from the subject.

NB the reviews on this profile are for my tennis coaching services; references for my English tutoring are available on request

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My programme focusses on five core frameworks which together cover all the conceptual components of the writing and comprehension sides of the subject.

These are: 1) inference (understanding how to extract interpretative meaning from a text); 2) description (understanding what description is and how to create it); 3) genre (understanding the differences between different types of writing and what they are each trying to achieve); 4) planning (understanding how to plan a piece of writing); 5) technique (understanding what technique is in the context of writing, and how to both look for and apply it).

In the sessions I instil and reinforce these frameworks through concrete writing and reading exercises which serve as a platform for developing my students’ understanding and application of the frameworks in conjunction with ongoing work on the key processing skills of reading (speed and accuracy), vocab, punctuation, grammar and spelling. With consistent reinforcement and repetition over multiple sessions, supplemented by targeted homework between sessions, this provides my students with a comprehensive programme for developing the core skills required to excel at the subject.

The other side of my teaching is the mental and emotional side. The most central aspect of this is an empathetic and child-centred way of relating to my students, always seeking to understand them as unique individuals and keeping the question of how I would feel if I was in their shoes at the heart of every interaction we have. By relating to my students in this way, I aim to empower them to feel more relaxed and confident about their education, and thus develop their autonomy and resilience, since I believe these are two of the most fundamental skills to success and wellbeing in both education and adult life.

As well as thus developing my students' mental skills through the way I relate to them, I also explicitly discuss the mental challenges they are facing whenever issues with motivation or focus arise, and have specific exercises and frameworks learnt from my experiences in both sport and education (e.g. Timothy Gallwey's Inner Game coaching methodology) which I use to help them work on these areas when appropriate.

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Rate

  • $459

Pack prices

  • 5h: $2296
  • 10h: $4593

online

  • $230/h

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