Tutor profile - Mark

Mark has over ten years of experience as Head of Economics at a leading independent girls' school, where he has inspired and empowered many students to develop a love of the subject as well as to achieve truly excellent grades (65% A*-A, 91% A*-B).

With over ten years of senior examining experience, he has significant expertise in guiding students to optimise their exam technique in order to achieve to their full potential.

He has taken on a number of private tuition clients in recent years. To give one case study, he took on a young man in April of year 13 who achieved Grade D in his mocks. They spent a full week together in the Easter holiday to diagnose gaps in his learning and to use a range of resources to upskill him in those areas. Mark created a strategic plan, with resources, for him to work through to rigorously master the key skills. In later follow-up sessions they worked to answer any questions he had, to strategically finetune his understanding as well as to optimise his exam technique. He achieved Grade A and went on to study at Durham University, where Mark continued to support him with tuition for some economics and quantitative skills modules.

He has an excellent track record of inspiring his students to study Economics courses at university level, supporting them to make successful applications to Oxford, Cambridge and LSE as well as other top universities in the UK, the USA, Europe and Hong Kong.

He also loves guiding students to develop their entrepreneurship skills. As a Centre Lead for the Young Enterprise Company Programme, his students won over forty awards in twelve years, created many amazing products and gained an incredible mix of skills.

For ten years, he also led a thriving and popular 'Academic Scholars Programme' for Gifted and Talented students. He inspired them to go beyond the curriculum, to make meaningful connections between subjects and to creatively apply their learning to current affairs.

In a previous post, he successfully taught Mathematics to all secondary ages and ability levels for five years; as well as teaching Economics A Level and Statistics GCSE.

He achieved his PGCE in Secondary Mathematics from Bath Spa University in 2006, achieved a First Class Honours in BSc MORSE (Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics) from the University of Warwick in 2002 and achieved the highest grades in Mathematics, Economics and History A Levels in 1999.

After graduating from university, he worked for two years as an Actuarial Consultant in London before embarking on a career in teaching.

His philosophy of teaching is that 'if their eyes are shining, then you're doing it right'. When students are inspired, then they can achieve truly amazing things.

However, to achieve that perfect mix, there are a number of vital pillars including warmth and charisma, inspirational teaching and learning, highly-effective questioning, insightful personalised feedback, coaching to develop independence and targeting efforts strategically so that the time spent has the greatest impact on progress.

He has a wide range of interests including sport (mainly football and cricket), well-being (yoga and meditation), languages (fluent in Spanish) and music (writing music as well as playing piano, guitar and ukulele).

He loves learning about a wide range of fields from practical philosophy to literature and cutting-edge technology, so he enjoys reading widely from a range of books, periodicals and blogs as well as listening to podcasts.

He loves empowering students to achieve their best, both academically and in life, and he looks forward to helping you too.