Pete

Tutor profile - Pete

Pete

History & Politics

Like all our tutors, Pete is a qualified teacher Like all our tutors, Pete holds a degree from a top University Like all our tutors, Pete holds a full, clean criminal records check

Pete's biography

Pete has worked in the State sector for over 20 years, having been trained for his PGCE at Cambridge University, Homerton College, by Christine Counsell. He has experience as an examiner for OCR at GCSE for over 9 years, 3 of these as a team leader. He has worked with the exam board on the remarking on 3 occasions. At key stage 5 he has worked for 2 years as an examiner for A-Level at OCR. Furthermore he has examined for 4 years for the International Baccalaureate (IB) as an examiner for the Standard Level Paper 2 essay exam and the extended essay, this summer he was on the remarking team for extended essays.

He currently works full time as Head of History and Religious Studies at a Cambridge school.

IB Experience

Setting up a history course for a new IB sixth form. Teaching IB Diploma (DP) for 11 years, IB Career related Programme (CP) since its inception. In History he has taught for both the European-Asia sphere and North America. Previously he has taught the 1919-1939 programme focusing on Hitler, Mussolini, Mao and Stalin and Tsarist Russia until the fall of the U.S.S.R. Most recently he has taught Hitler, Mao and Castro and The Cold War with the Higher level focus on American Presidents domestic, foreign and Latin America from 1945 to 1980 and Canadian Prime Ministers from 1945 to 1982. Additionally he has taught Global Politics covering subjects such as Human Rights and Peace and Conflict.

In Lessons he uses his experience as an examiner to build substantive knowledge and to apply this to exam style questions. He breaks learning down into chunks and uses recall tasks and practice activities to move knowledge from the working memory to the long term memory. Once applied to examination questions he gives formative feedback for skills to maintain, how to sustain these in other areas of their answer and how to move their critical thinking and writing forward. He has used this successfully to move students to achieving passes as well as to achieving grade 7s and to support a student to study History at Oxford where they have since graduated with a first class honors degree.

Pete's availability

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Pete's qualifications

Pete qualified to teach History in 2002, and holds a PGCE from Homerton college, Cambridge University .

University name Name of degree Year of graduation
University of central Lancashire B.A. (hons) History 1995

Subjects tutored:

History (KS3, GCSE AQA, GCSE Edexcel, GCSE OCR, IGCSE, A Level AQA, A Level Edexcel, A Level OCR, IB Standard Level, IB Higher Level and IB MYP)

Politics (IB Standard Level and IB Higher Level)

Here's where Pete can teach

Cambridge

  • Cottenham, Landbeach, Rampton, Histon, Impington, Burwell, Swaffham Bulbeck, Swaffham Prior, Stow-Cum-Quy, Bottisham, Lode, Waterbeach, Horningsea, Chittering (CB25)
  • Cambridge (North) (CB4)
  • Histon, Impington, Oakington, Longstanton, Willingham, Swavesey, Over, Fen Drayton, Milton, Rampton, Cottenham (CB24)
  • Cambridge (North-West), Girton (CB3)
  • Cambridge (Central and South), Teversham (CB1)