Before becoming a teacher I worked in several companies as an industrial microbiologist and an analytical chemist. I also worked in the NHS as a medical laboratory technician and phlebotomist 

After graduating from Kings College London with an immunology degree I joined Newcastle University and spent three years researching anti-cancer drugs.  

I hold the professional status of a Chartered Biologist and have memberships with the Royal Society Of Biology and the Chartered College of Teaching. These professional memberships allow me to keep current in the biological and cognitive sciences. This is vital to me in providing high quality and engaging biology lessons.

I am a registered teacher with the Education Workforce Council in Wales.  This can assure you of my professional status and fitness to practise as a teacher. You can check my status my entering my name at the Education Workforce Council website HERE.  

I’m an A-Level Biology specialist teacher. I have over 18 years of full-time A-Level Biology teaching experience with 16 to 20-year-old students. This experience has allowed me to develop a dynamic approach to teaching and to become an expert at helping students of all abilities.

I have been an examiner for the WJEC and Edexcel examination boards.  This has given me essential knowledge into the assessment of A-level Biology papers which benefits all my students.  

I conduct myself to the professional standards set by the Education Workforce Council and the Royal Society of Biology.

I am a qualified teacher, so use proven teaching strategies skillfully and effectively with my students. Some examples include Socratic questioning, compare and contrast to test understanding and interlinking.

I provide help with exam technique and with structuring long answer, QER, questions by showing the links between different topics. I teach students thinking skills and why this is vital to understanding question command words, assessment objectives and how this is used to the structure the answer.

Along with covering the biological content of the specification I, also, teach the maths and practical content as well.

I provide all resources that students need.  For example, notes, past paper questions, mark schemes and lots of other activities.  Online sessions are recorded so students can review the content of the session.  

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