Sam

I was born in the little town of Salisbury, where I attended Bishop Wordsworth's Grammar School and achieved very high marks in Spanish, English Literature, Religious Studies and Early Modern History.

Following school I attended Oxford University, from which I graduated in 2015 with a First Class in Theology. I have just completed a Masters Degree at Birkbeck College, University of London, where I attained a Distinction.

What my experience tutoring has shown me is that students learn in different ways and require different means with which to access their learning. My teaching style is focussed, patient and tool-based. As much as possible I try to use different learning tools to enable understanding and memory improvement. I'm especially interested in the use of space and spatial techniques to access and understand the logical progression of certain arguments.

A particular focus of my tutoring is giving students certain skills which have application beyond the classroom and will help them achieve higher goals in the future. Skills such as efficient note-taking, text analysis and memory improvement exercises are vital not only as academic tools but as skills needed throughout our lives, and some of my most rewarding moments whilst teaching have come when witnessing my students using those skills across a broad canvas of contexts.

All students learn in different ways, and my tutoring style accommodates and allows for that. I have found that certain spatial techniques are generally useful as revision methods for many students, and I am interested in developing these further. The use of coloured post-it notes to both spatially express the logical structure of argumentation, as well as an aid to memory improvement, is one such an example which is especially helpful.

When not tutoring, I invest my time in the theatrical side of my life, both with my theatre company and alone in darkened auditoriums, going to as many shows as I can get into. I write and direct my own work, and currently have two shows out on national tours.

I am also an avid reader, both of fictional texts and, failing to leave my degree fully behind, modern theological works. I am a particular devourer of Dostoyevsky and Sartre, as well as any and all play-texts, and some beautiful American novels, young and old.