Marzia Grigoli
Learning Mentor & Language Tutor
About
Learning Mentor
November 2019.
I have just started a new job at Cambridge Regional College in Cambridge (UK) as a Learning Support Mentor, which can be deemed as a follow-up section of my previous teaching poosition held in various Italian state schoolsfor about 20 years. It is definitely a new adventure and a challenge as well that I have accepted as a way of carry on working in a school environment even though from a slightly different perspective. The primary purpose of this role is to support students with learning difficulties to become more independent in accessing the curriculum and, consequently, in achieving their programme of study by working together with all teaching and non-teaching staff and parents/carers in order to help them find out their personalised way of learning.
Language Tutor
2016 to present.
After taking my Master Degree in Teaching Italian to Foreigners at the University of Venice in July 2016, I have dedicated my efforts to teaching Italian to foreign students in the UK as a self-employed language tutor. I thought it better to work in collaboration with private language centres such as Easy-Italian and Tutor Doctor, both of them located in Cambridge in order to arrange my language lessons in a more suitable and simpler way. I usually deliver my lessons at students' home according to their personal needs and times. I listen to their request, which generally comes after the basic question "Why do you want to study Italian?", and afterwards I present them a course plan with topics agreed on together and techniques to use. Each language course is totally personalised in its duration and materials adopted again according to the student's needs and purpose.
