Academic and Professional Background

Kate Marson

Personal Statement

A skilled, articulate educator with a passion for maximising the success of my students in a range of subjects. My ability to engage with learners of all ages allows them to realise their full potential, while my positive and approachable demeanour makes lessons enjoyable. With classroom experience in the UK private school system, as well as international experience as a travelling homeschool tutor, I am adaptable to a variety of client needs and accustomed to meeting high expectations. Supremely organised and meticulous in my planning, I am a consummate professional who looks forward to continuing to help my students to flourish.

Employment

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Private Tutor (September 2015-June 2018)

Lugano, Switzerland (and worldwide locations)

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Responsibilities and achievements:

- Provided full-time homeschooling education for two bilingual brothers.

- Maintained an excellent standard of teaching while travelling the world with my two pupils and their family.

- Motivated and supported the learning of both boys via Skype lessons to keep momentum during school holidays or longer periods of travel.

- Developed a range of materials and techniques to improve the boys’ English reading, vocabulary, spelling and creative writing.

- Created and adapted online resources for a fully digital school system.

- Prepared both boys for IGCSE, AS and A2 Level examinations in English Language, Latin, Classical Civilisation and History.

- Taught a wide variety of subjects, from Russian to Art History, as well as providing for the extracurricular needs of both boys (sport, photography, cookery, museum visits).

- Assisted my oldest pupil with applications to US colleges, involving background research into the colleges to which he wished to apply, helping with essay drafts and coaching him on interview technique.

- Built a strong relationship with my pupils to ensure lessons were both productive and fun.

- Sustained a professional relationship with the parents of my pupils, keeping meticulous records to ensure that they were kept up to date on their sons’ progress.

- Liaised with the Principal of my youngest pupil’s new school, to guarantee a smooth transition from homeschooling to a conventional education system.

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Teacher of Classics (August 2012-August 2015)

Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow

Responsibilities and achievements:

- Prepared pupils (aged 11-18) for National 5, GCSE, Higher and Advanced Higher examinations in Latin, Ancient Greek and Classical Studies.

- Increased the number of pupils wanting to study Classical subjects through my enthusiastic and engaging teaching methods.

- Developed a fun and informative Latin and Ancient History course for young learners (aged 5-11).

- Worked with children who came from Second Language English households, to improve their grasp of English in preparation for learning Latin.

- Coached pupils for Oxbridge application by assisting with personal statement drafts, helping with college choices and giving mock interviews.

- Ran a successful Debating Society, showing pupils how to use their English skills to their full potential in writing speeches.

- Managed the writing and editing of the School Magazine, using my outstanding organisational skills to manage a team of pupils and fellow teachers while working with sponsors and printers to produce a professional result.

Courses (Professional Development)

• GDST - Girls’ Education (2017): In this course, I explored how to help girls to transfer the confidence gained in the classroom into the workplace, by assessing typical female learning traits.

• Oxford University – Effective Online Tutoring (2017): This ten-week online course helped me to become proficient at using Adobe Connect to host meetings and facilitate discussion among participants. By the end of the course, I had hosted multiple synchronous meetings with students from around the world.

• British Council - English in Early Childhood (2018): In this course, I investigated the process of learning English from a young age, by looking at child psychology and techniques to facilitate English acquisition in babies and toddlers.

• Lancaster University – Dyslexia and Foreign Language Teaching (2018): This course gave me multiple new techniques to assist dyslexic learners in my language lessons, including several online tools for improving grasp of foreign language components.

Education

• Studied a range of topics including Language, Literature, Art, Archaeology, History, Philosophy and Philology.

• Developed an understanding of how the building blocks of language work from studying ancient systems of language development.

• Investigated literary psychology to carry out an analysis of Euripides’ to produce my final year dissertation on the motivations behind the protagonist’s filicide.

• Analysed parallels between ancient texts in their original languages and the works of Shakespeare.

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MA, Classics (2016)

BA, Classics (September 2009-June 2012)

Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge

A Levels (2008-2009)

Nottingham High School for Girls

AS Levels (2007-2008)

Nottingham High School for Girls

GCSEs (2005-2007)

Nottingham High School for Girls

English Language and Literature            

Latin                                               

Psychology                                       

(All grade A)

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• Awarded a Merit for the Advanced Extension Award in Latin.

• Awarded prizes for top scores in my year group in English Language and Literature and Latin.

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English Language and Literature            

Latin                                               

Psychology

Religious Studies

General Studies                                       

(All grade A)

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English Language

English Literature

Latin

Ancient Greek

Russian

History

Religious Studies

Mathematics

Double Award Science                                     

(All grade A*)

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Personal Interests

• Languages – I have enjoyed studying a range of languages since school and am currently learning Dutch. I also have a deep interest in the roots of language development and like to research this in my free time.  This is strengthened by personal experience: I have a bilingual niece (Ukrainian/English) and intend to bring up my future children in a bilingual household (Dutch/English).

• Travel and Culture – I have travelled extensively both with work and in my leisure time. I lived between September 2015 and June 2018 on the border of Switzerland and Italy, and relocated in July 2018 to the Netherlands, close to the German border.

• History/Museums.

• Sport – Horse riding, yoga, swimming.