Tutor profile - Katie

Katie is an IB coordinator and head of department at a school in the UK and has over a decade of experience teaching IB and IGCSE/GCSE history (Cambridge and Edexcel exam boards). She is also a team leader and examiner for IB history paper 3 so has an excellent understanding of the requirements of the course and how to get the best grades in all papers for both SL and HL history. Having studied Politics and International Relations (2:1) at the University of Warwick, she also has an interest in politics and began her teaching career teaching A Level government and politics. She has now been teaching the IB global politics course for three years and is up to date with her IB mandated professional development workshops for both history and global politics. Having completed her Masters in Education (merit) with the University of Bath, Katie has a genuine love of teaching and learning and spent several years teaching in international schools around the world before returning in 2019 to the UK. She is now assistant head (IB) in addition to being head of the history and politics department.