Rebecca

I am a classroom teacher with considerable experience leading stimulating and interactive lessons. I specialise in developing critical thinking skills in young people of all ages, from primary level debate to A-Level History source analysis. My tutoring sessions are filled with lively discussions and thinking games that bring learning to life.

I can help develop your capacity to question historical material from different perspectives, allowing you to be more critical of sources or of received historical narratives. For me, the history is a lot more than just learning facts, dates or event, it is about how we think about the past and apply it to the present. I will encourage you to make comparisons and contrasts with today, to help bring history to life.

I work on the basis that essay writing skills grow out of this ability to engage in discursive conversation. I have found that this allows students to engage with historical or political arguments more intuitively than in essay writing.

With primary aged children I focus on literacy skills and creative writing, specifically looking into how drawing and drama games can be linked into the literacy curriculum to help build bridges between these creative forms that children often relate to better.

Experience – Classroom teacher:
– Toryglen School (P4/5)
– St. Brides School (P5/6)
– St. Fillans School (P3)

Qualifications:
– Post-Graduate Diploma in Education (University of Glasgow)
– Philosophy with Children facilitator (The Philosophy Foundation)
– BA in History of Art (University of Edinburgh)