Archie is an Amazing Graduate with Aspirations of Teaching and TEFL experience - Looking for a TA Role
Archie is a bright, personable and internationally experienced graduate who is keen to explore a future career in teaching through a Teaching Assistant or Academic Mentor role. With a BA in Languages, Cultures and Film Studies, a Master’s in Audiovisual Translation and Localisation, and a 120-hour TEFL qualification, he brings an excellent academic and linguistic background alongside substantial hands-on teaching experience.
Having taught children and teenagers from a wide range of international backgrounds, Archie is already confident planning lessons, managing groups and building positive relationships with young people – making him an exciting prospect for a London school.
Education & Qualifications
- MA Audiovisual Translation and Localisation – Merit: University of Leeds
- BA (Hons) Languages, Cultures and Film Studies (Spanish) – Upper Second Class: University of Leeds
- A Levels: Politics (A*), Spanish (A), English Language (A)
- GCSEs: 10 at Grades A*–B, including English, Maths and Sciences
Experience Summary
Archie offers an impressive combination of practical teaching experience, academic ability and strong interpersonal skills. His TEFL work has seen him take responsibility for classes of both primary and secondary-age learners, while his professional experience in project coordination and team leadership has developed the organisation, maturity and adaptability that translate extremely well into a busy school environment.
- Excellent TEFL experience with children and teenagers, including teaching English in Valencia to primary-age classes of up to 30 pupils, with responsibility for lesson planning, teaching and organising activities.
- Experienced working with international secondary-age students, teaching groups of teenagers from Italy, Taiwan and Turkey through Language in Action while managing lesson plans, curricula, trips and excursions.
- Strong experience supporting learners from diverse backgrounds, including volunteering to teach English to students from China and Korea and teaching
- English to recently arrived refugees through Compass.
- Confident group leader and communicator, having progressed to Team Leader at Everyman Cinema and managed teams of up to 20 people alongside administrative and events responsibilities.
- Highly organised and adaptable, with professional project-management experience coordinating localisation projects from inception through to delivery and working with people from varied international backgrounds.
- Strong language and communication credentials, supported by degree-level Spanish, postgraduate study in translation and localisation, and a 120-hour TEFL qualification.
- Brings genuine cultural awareness to the classroom, with teaching and professional experience spanning Spain, France and highly international environments.
Key Strengths
- Substantial TEFL and lesson-planning experience
- Confident working with both primary and secondary-age learners
- Strong classroom and group-management potential
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- Experience supporting pupils from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds
- Fluent academic grounding in Spanish, languages and communication
- Proven leadership, organisation and project-management skills
- Adaptable, culturally aware and comfortable taking responsibility
- Genuine interest in exploring teaching as a long-term career path