Patrick Ortega Email & Phone Number

When I first began teaching English, after completing the CELTA and moving to Shanghai, China in September 2012, my ambition was to use the profession as a means of exploring other cultures whilst earning a salary at the same time. Almost fourteen years later, after spending five years teaching English in Spain, Italy and China, coming back to the UK to work in speech and language (SEN), completing the PGCE (2019) and five years spent working in diverse and challenging secondary school environments in London and South East England (KS3, KS4, KS5), my professional toolkit has transformed immensely.My passion and understanding of what great teaching looks like, how best to inspire, build positive, meaningful relationships with students and staff and how best to motivate young minds and improve attainment, has developed to the point where I am confident that my skills and abilities would be highly valued wherever I go. Furthermore, I am working towards and close to completing a qualification professional qualification (Department of Education) NPQ in Leading Teaching.My linguistic expertise are in Spanish and Portuguese but I demonstrated flexibility and adaptability in my practice as I have been teaching French to students between the ages of 11-14 for the past five years and completed a three month intensive French Subject Knowledge Enhancement Course, sponsored by the Department for Education, as recent as 2019.I am a current English as a foreign language lead in a school in the UK, where I have been given the autonomy to create a tailored syllabus for EAL students, using my expertise to undergo this process. I am an advanced level, fluent Spanish speaker with intermediate level Portuguese and basic Italian and French.I have an abundance of experience liaising in Spanish with students, colleagues and parents in a professional environment. I currently teach Spanish and French at secondary level and Spanish at A level, I am an intermediate level Portuguese speaker and use Portuguese on a weekly basis in an educational environment.I am a well skilled, dedicated teaching practitioner with expertise in language, linguistics and literature and know that I would be a valuable addition to any linguistics based teaching team.