Tutor profile - Pete

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.