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Daniel
Daniel is a former Modern Foreign Languages teacher with 8 years' experience. His knowledge and understanding of the GCSE and A Level allow him to provide an excellent level of support to his tutees.
“Daniel has helped my daughter turn around a situation where she was afraid of languages to one where she loves them. Heartfelt thanks - this goes way beyond the exams and will be of value to her for life.”
After graduation, I worked for two years at a Spanish university (La Coruna), before beginning teacher training. After my PGCE, I then taught Spanish and French for almost eight years at King's Canterbury and the John Lyon School, Harrow. I am now an exam moderator for Cambridge IGCSE.
More recently as a tutor, I have helped many students achieve top grades at Common Entrance, 13+, GCSE, A level and Pre-U. I have also prepared my tutees successfully for scholarships to schools such as Westminster and Eton. For the last few years I have worked as an Assessment Specialist (moderator/examiner) for Cambridge IGCSE. This involves checking that marking of speaking exams have been marked correctly and consistently in schools both in the UK and internationally.
I am a former secondary school teacher with almost eight years of teaching experience. I have taught mainly at independent schools, both day and boarding and I am now a moderator for Cambridge IGCSE.
I grew up in London, where I attended Latymer Upper School and following completion of a BA and MA in modern languages, I obtained a PGCE from the Institute of Education. During my career I have taught and examined French and Spanish GCSE (OCR and Edexel) and AS and A level Spanish (AQA, Edexel). I have taught both these subjects from year 7 and marked 11+ and 13+ entrance exams. Having attended numerous training seminars hosted by exam boards, I gained genuine first-hand experience of the exam process as a teacher examiner. I have also acted as a subject mentor for students applying to study Spanish and French at Oxford/Cambridge and currently work as an examiner/moderator for Cambridge IGCSE.
“I wanted to personally thank Keystone for helping my son in French throughout his high school journey. His Keystone tutor was outstanding. Our weekly classes with Daniel not only helped steer him through the pandemic when classes moved online - and he had little opportunity to practice his French - but Daniel helped prep him for his GCSE exams where he got a solid A! Daniel gave my son the extra boost and confidence he needed, and he greatly enjoyed working with Daniel, and looked forward to the weekly sessions. I highly recommend him as a French tutor.”
“I wanted to just let you know how very brilliant, connected and supportive Daniel has been for my son over the course of his A levels. He really has been exceptional in his continuous encouragement and targeted support. My son was not overly confident in his abilities when he started A levels in 2 languages...but results were great and my son has his first choice of university. It has been wonderful to see my son's confidence growing and he did equally well in both which is a testament to him and to Daniel. You have a greatest tutor there! He is set up for the next stage with the most important things - confidence and motivation to do well.”
“All very good so far and we are hoping to book a couple more sessions next week - the online system is actually a very easy way to have tutoring and he has been really helpful.”
“Our daughter is happily now working with Daniel on French and Spanish. He's terrific, has found a good way of teaching both together, and our daughter has great confidence in him, finds him bright, interesting, organised and sure-footed, and generally likes him a lot.”
Having spent a great deal of time in the classroom, I have come across all types of learning style and can alter my approach accordingly. I am genuinely enthused by my subject and aim to project my passion for all languages. I enjoy breaking down and demystifying the more complex aspects of language-learning and my experience of different types of syllabus has given me a great deal of confidence when teaching exam technique.
I aim to tutor and translate full-time for the next few years. My other main interest is politics, particularly European and Latin American issues. In my spare time, I practise aikido and since gaining my black belt I have started to teach it as well - I hope to achieve my coaching qualification very soon from the British Aikido Association.
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