Young Learners

My Young Learner courses are for young people aged ten years and older and are ideal for those who are underperforming at school. This can apply equally to those who are finding their school studies too slow and easy to those who are struggling to keep up with their peers, and especially those with a learning deficit.

The courses are based on routine textbooks, but I take the approach that there is nothing routine about the young person and that the learning experience should nurture, reinforce and reward their creativity. It should also be a positive learning experience with frequent feedback in the form of positive reinforcement of the efforts they make. The exceptional children soon come to realise that they have more control over their language learning and develop critical thinking skills and a sense of emancipation far above what is possible in a typical school classroom. Parents can also take an active role in the feedback process, and this can all be co-ordinated with their school syllabus.

These courses are ideal for young people preparing for exams with exam skills being a central component of the lessons. We do some testing at regular intervals but in our experience too much testing can be counterproductive and risks only in teaching the young mind how to fail. I work with the young person to show them how to overcome the challenges they routinely face with language learning and how to take control of both their failures and their successes to build a robust language model that they can rely on, not just in their exams but in their adult lives to come.

Stephen is a great teacher. He has been teaching me for several years, and we will continue this year. We have a textbook that we follow and work from in our lessons together. He doesn't mind just chatting when I've had a busy day at school. We can talk about anything e.g. space, books, music etc. Learning with him is interesting and educational in many ways. He is an inspiring person not just as an English teacher. Young learner (2020 - )

Stephen was my teacher for a year, and I can’t even describe how much his classes helped me. Stephen was guiding me through preparation for entrance exams from the English language to an international school (ECP) which I successfully passed. His lessons were very well structured. The materials that we used in the lessons were carefully handpicked and very useful. Stephen improved my communication skills through conversation within our lectures, and my writing and comprehension skills improved as well. Thanks to Stephen I also made progress in grammar which he always explained very clearly and put into context. Overall, I would say that the lessons were very enjoyable, and they made me a lot more confident with English. Young learner (2021 - 2022)

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