Oxford PhD student; an experienced and friendly tutor - English tutor with Alasdair

Alasdair worked steadily throughout the four weeks of his course. He was attentive and coped well with the intensity of the workload.
In class, he had good authority and he was well prepared for lessons. His analytical mind and sound research pushed his lessons from strength to strength. The Pre-Intermdiate and Upper Intermediate students had trust in his understanding and explanation of the language points. He managed his classes with a range of effective techniques. This combined with his excellent plans pushed his lessons into a B Pass.
Overall, Alasdair was clear on staging and the rationale although there is still some fine-tuning needed around the language highlighting. He was reminded to reduce TTT,involve the students in the highlighting stage and to keep working on transferring this knowledge into manageable bite sized chunks.
Overall, he worked independently and he was a capable teacher with clear awareness of what to do with both skills and language lessons.
In TP feedback, he was perceptive and self -aware.
Alasdair will continue to build on his teaching skills and techniques and be a reliable and effective teacher.

Alasdair has worked very successfully with my son, tutoring in ‘A’ level English, Politics and Philosophy. He is an inspiring tutor who is always well prepared and adapts lessons well to meet individual learning needs.

Alasdair has also worked as tutor at Plaistow Primary School giving ten and eleven year old pupils one to one tuition. He has been very successful teaching small groups of children English in preparation for their SATs tests.