Qualified native British English teacher with 16 years of experience offering global online ESOL lessons. Classes are tailored to your needs and are guaranteed to be fun and effective. 1st class free!

Christopher's CV

Christopher Long BA (Hons), MA, PGCE

• A highly experienced native British English language teacher.
• Over 16 years of teaching experience in State education and private language tuition
• Excellent track record for student exam success, emigration, career development and general Business English development.


WORK EXPERIENCE – References available upon request –

English Language Tutor Budapest, Hungary 2013-2020
• One-to-one private ESOL tutor, working with a range of different learners, from schoolchildren to university students, lawyers, doctors and project managers, in person and via the Internet. Have taught students from Europe and Asia.
• Cambridge exam preparation assistance
• Job promotion assistance
• English development for emigration
• CV/Resume development
• Proof reading

• Results: Students have passed exams, secured promotions and successfully moved abroad due to improved English skills. Many long-term, satisfied students.

Subject Lecturer Reading College of Further Education, UK 2011-2012
• Responsible for delivering courses in a large, urban British college
• Involved in course planning, grading work and feedback
• Strong use of IT and ICT in delivering lessons to learners

• Results: 100% pass rate for all students on courses.


Senior Lecturer, Media Guildford College of Further and Higher Education, UK 2004-2010
• Responsible for the design, planning and implementation of a range of FE and HE courses up to BA (Hons) level.
• Program Manager for National Certificate course with management responsibilities for a team of 4 teachers
• Awarded a Grade 1 (Excellent OFSTED) mark for teaching excellence
• Personal Tutor to 20 students

• Results: Successfully brought the Department through a Government Inspection when the College was failing. Excellent exam results for students, many of whom are now working in the media industry.

Teacher Langleywood School/ East Berkshire College, UK 2001-2003
• Dyslexia tutor at a large FE College
• Exclusions Manager, working with students excluded from normal classes due to behavioural issues

• Results: Provided learning support to student who would otherwise have failed their courses to due English language problems.


EDUCATION

Post Graduate Certificate in Education Greenwich University 2007-2010
Government approved official teacher training program to gain Qualified Teacher Status in the UK.

City and Guilds 7407 Stage 1 2004
Basic level teacher training course, recognised by the UK Department of Education.

MA, Video Production Bournemouth University, UK 1996

BA (Hons) 2:1 Humanities University of Glamorgan 1991-1994
Arts subjects degree, majoring in English Language

TOOLS & SKILLS

Office software : Word, Excel, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, PowerPoint, Keynotes, Libre Office, Zoom, Skype, Hangouts, Google Drive, Dropbox.

Operating systems: Windows, Apple OSX

Excellent people skills, business experience

LANGUAGES

• English: Native
• Hungarian: Elementary