Angela Gallacher

Dedicated educator with expertise in 1-1 tutoring and online tutoring experience, specialising in student-centred learning. Proficient in tailoring feedback and adapting to diverse learning styles to foster critical thinking. Committed to enhancing educational outcomes through personalised teaching strategies.

Compassionate individual with natural ability to communicate and engage with students, bringing skills in problem-solving and adaptability. Proficient in planning lessons and managing time, creating supportive and productive learning environment. Committed to fostering academic growth and confidence in students through in any tutoring role.

Experience of group learning also, creating Individual/Group Learning Plans, setting goals and celebrating learning success.

• Dog walking, swimming, canoeing, body boarding, reading, listening to music, art and knitting.

Personal Details

Angela, Gallacher

agallacher@hotmail.com

4 Burgh Walk, Gourock, Inverclyde, PA19 1PH.

Relevant Qualifications

Conduct the Assessment Award, Award, successful

PDA Introduction to Teaching Literacies to Adult Learners, PDA, successful

PG diploma in Information and Library Studies, PG diploma, successful

Open University BA Hons in English, BA Hons, 2.2

SSSC, Ordinary, 11/01/18, Various Social Care Modules.

My most recent training has been in my job as Adult Learning Worker with Community Learning and involved a variety of CPD training.

Professional Membership

Registered member of Community Learning and Development Standards Council Scotland

Work Experience

02/01/22 - Present

Argyll & Bute Council

Welfare Rights Assistant

Carrying out benefit checks with Cancer client referrals then advising and assisting them to claim the benefits they are entitled to to achieve income maximisation and assisting them with debt management.

02/01/22, 02/01/24

Community Learning and Development

Community Adult Learning Worker

Tutoring Adult Learners in whatever they need to learn to move forward with their lives - Vocational Skills, Digital Skills, Life Skills, Social Skills, Health & Wellbeing Skills etc... - usually in a group setting (working with partners to identify need and refer), sometimes 1:1 within the Learning Hub drop-in service. 

11/08/21, 02/01/22

Carr Gomm

Housing Support Worker

I supported homeless people with their housing needs - supporting them to find a permanent home, assisting with housing applications, applying for various welfare benefits and funding available to them in order to maximise their income and helped them with budgeting skills.

01/28/21, 02/01/22

Salvation Army

Relief Support Worker

I supported a variety of clients with varying issues - drug and/or alcohol issues, homelessness, illness, learning disabilities - within their own homes or the homeless centre.

10/10/18, 08/02/20

Turning Point Scotland

Support Practitioner

Supporting service users with their tenancies - medication issuing, personal care where applicable, cleaning, cooking, finances, social outings, appointments, shopping and offering emotional support with their mental health and well-being.

08/01/18, 02/01/22

West College Scotland

Scribe

Supporting students with varying needs and/or disabilities with their study skills, in-class support and assessments.

01/09/16, 09/08/18

Key Housing

Support Practitioner

Supporting service users with Learning Disabilities in their own tenancies to live as independently as is possible.

07/01/09, 12/01/16

Inverclyde Community Learning and Development

CLD Worker

Highlighting and developing accreditation opportunities within the FSF Adult Timetable and other Adult and Literacies classes.

Hobbies/Interests

Dog walking, swimming, canoeing, reading, knitting.

References

Welfare Rights Assistant, Susan, Tuite, Welfare Rights Senior Officer, Argyll and Bute Council, susan.tuite@argyll-bute.gov.uk, +44 01546604740, 1A Manse Brae, Lochgilphead, Scotland, PA31 8RD, 

Comm Adult Learning Worker, Rhona, Grant, Adult Learning Team Leader, Community Learning and Development, rhona.grant@liveargyll.co.uk, +44 01369707164, 9 Argyll Street, Dunoon, Scotland, PA23 7HH,