Teacher, Tutor, Trainer

After completing my Degree in Acting in 1985, I started teaching Drama at Sidcup Secondary School. During the first few weeks of the school term, I handed out a script to the students to read aloud. It became quickly evident that their reading ability was a few years below where they ought to have been. In order to avoid any additional embarrassment to the children, I collected up the scripts and had to think on my feet in order to adjust the rest of the lesson.

During the 20 years that I was a school teacher, I moved from teaching drama to teaching other subjects. When I took up tutoring in the early 1990’s, I had already resigned to the fact that the more progressive teaching methods that had been introduced in the 1960’s were not working. The experiment had failed. It was at this time that I looked at the educational system in countries that were once part of the British Empire and found that the traditional teaching methodologies that they had once adopted were still being so successfully used to educate their students. This convinced me that the traditional way of teaching had many more merits than the more progressive approach, and I started adopting the traditional style of teaching into my tutoring. The success of the students who came to me during this time, and all the students who have passed through the AE Tuition Centre are testament to this.

In 1995, AE Tuition grew to such a size that I felt it necessary to purchase a building that could host the tuition classes. As this was a significant investment, I also took on a number of trained teachers who could help me run classes. All the teachers that started at AE Tuition in those days and all those who have and are working with me, are all trained by me in the AE Tuition style of teaching. This ensures that all pupils that come through the tuition centre have the same level of training – no matter what class they attend or who their teacher is.