Meet the teacher
I'm Laura, and I moved from the writing, editing and publishing industry into teaching in 2019. Since then, I've been fortunate enough to work in multiple facets of English teaching, from secondary schools to college resits, GCSE to IELTS. The variety of qualifications and the individuals that I work with means that every day, every task is different!
2024-present
IELTS preparation classes online - these are particularly popular for developing fluency and pronunciation skills with a native English speaker.
Remote teaching in Kathmandu, Nepal
2023-24
Providing and monitoring the Adult GCSE programme for adult classes in a North-East England college; some excellent results, and everyone on the programme achieved at least a grade in their final exams.
Adult GCSE English Programme Lead
Summer 2023
Working with adult learners in Strasbourg, France to improve their English across the four key skills: Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking.
CELTA certification
2020-23
Teaching both GCSE and Functional Skills to adults, post-16 college learners (those who left school without achieving their English GCSE), and pre-16 learners accessing college as an alternative education provision.
English Lecturer (College)
Summers 2020, 2021, 2022
Teaching a unique blend of Functional Skills, British culture, and maths and IT skills to Gurkha recruits from Nepal in the British Army.
English Lecturer (MOD)
2017-2019
Creating SEO-optimised, relevant, and interesting blog posts for websites, as well as editing fiction novels in preparation for publication.
Copywriter and editor
The process for becoming a teacher in England is extremely stringent: you need to have a degree in the relevant subject, complete a specific teaching degree, and then follow the government process for new teachers.
Qualifications
With a minor in Creative Writing, this undergraduate degree not only provided techniques and history for literature analysis but also introduced critiques and approaches for how contemporary culture influences and is influenced by language.
BA in English Studies
This Cambridge certificate for teaching English as a foreign language is a globally recognised qualification particularly concerned with the 4 keys skills of Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking
CELTA
The PostGraduate Certificate in Education blends pedagogical theory and assignments alongside practical hands-on teaching experience.
PGCE
This postgraduate degree provided a sound basis for analysing the effect of language and structure in all types of writing, particularly in fiction, and prepared me for publishing my own work.