Donna B
Donna B

Donna B

Experienced, well-qualified teacher designs lessons around your learning needs.
Starting from:

£35.00/hr

  • 0.0 /5.0 (00)
  • 90%Profile completion
  • Orkney
Languages I know
  • English

donna-b

A brief introduction

I have 23 years experience in Education as a classroom teacher, online tutor, Head of Department, Assistant Head, SENDCo, Head Teacher and Education Advisor. I have BA Hons in English and Drama, Film and Television, PGCE English, MEd in SEND and Specialist Qualification for Headship. I currently English Language and English Literature successfully for KS2, KS3, GCSE and A level pupils online, as well as literacy for adult education and community learning. I am an experienced SENDCo and hold CPT3A (RQTU) Level 7 qualification that enables me to assess pupils for examination access requirements and write reports to support EHCP applications. I have CELTA and experience teaching Cambridge ESOL from Starters to Proficiency, and IELTS for university entry. My most recent student succeeded in her IELTS and is now studying to be a neurosurgeon in London. I have experience marking IGCSE Second Language examination papers and I was commended by SQA for the accuracy and clarity of my coursework marking.
My teaching style is bespoke – I plan and deliver lessons based on the learning needs and requirements of my pupils. I am patient and encouraging, but I provide challenging questions, material and resources that ensure that my pupils become independent thinkers who make excellent progress.I have spent my career teaching in state schools and independent schools, as well as overseas.
I live on a remote Scottish island and, now semi-retired, I work as an online tutor. I love teaching students, whatever their age and ability, and I am not ready to hang up my boots just yet! When I’m not tutoring, I love to walk my dogs on the beach, read and play my clarinet.

Education

  • University of Leeds
  • Leeds
  • September 1988 - June 1992
Writing in Practice, The Novel from Defoe to Hardy, Literature from a Feminist Perspective, Restoration Comedy, Introduction to Dramatherapy, Film Studies, The Study of Shakespeare, Contemporary Drama, Elizabethan and Stuart Drama
  • University of York
  • York, UK
  • September 2000 - June 2001
Post-graduate teacher training course for Secondary School English
  • University of Birmingham
  • Birmingham, UK
  • September 2007 - June 2013
MEd in Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, with research and dissertation on teaching children and young people with ADHD using positive teacher-talk.
  • University of Aberdeen
  • Aberdeen, UK
  • September 2019 - June 2020
Qualification in school leadership with dissertation topic The Importance of Psychological Safety in Multi-agency Work.
  • December 2024 - December 2024
  • University of Cambridge ESOL
  • Action English, Leeds, UK
  • September 2013 - June 2014
Qualification in teaching English to students for whom English is an additional language. Beginners to Proficiency. IELTS for university entry.

I can teach

  • 11+
  • 13+
  • A Level
  • Common entrance
  • English
  • English Language
  • English Literature
  • GCSE English
  • KS2
  • KS3
  • Primary
  • Scottish Highers
  • Secondary

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