Lessons

Katerina Sopidi has experience with teaching up to KS4 for developing comprehension skills, creative writing and love for reading. An holistic approach is followed that includes almost all styles of writing. Special focus on features’ comparison, practical description ideas and recreating content to provide a secure environment for building fun and engaging lessons.

Katerina Sopidi holds a certificate from a University post-graduate course for supporting students with Dyslexia and can follow specialist therapy programmes from an Education Psychologist. Lessons can be innovative to provide a range of tricks to enhance academic achievement. Strategies can be easy and practical. Decoding written information can be a lesson by itself giving the chance for a fun playful experience. Relevant software and programmes used in the past – IDL, Reading Wise programme, Inference Training, MathsWatch, Seeing Stars etc.

Bring a diagnosis from a Speech and Language Specialist to get lessons tailored to your needs. Katerina Sopidi can create complex visual aids and is awarded for story writing. Slowing down and using small steps with lots of praise is key for students with Sp&L needs. Building vocabulary can be next to building sentences, paragraphs or stories. Students can use dictionaries of all kinds and become specialists in writing, reciting and reading poems, letters and stories. With a confidence building focus everyone is included and everyone can achieve.

Except a PECS (level 1) certificate, Katerina Sopidi holds a Level 3 CPD Autism certificate and also has experience with Social Stories, basic Makaton and ABA. She can liaise with Educational Psychologists, Art therapists and Occupational Therapists for the needs of students. Relationship building skills is her most valued quality along with commitment to care. Special behaviour and learning plans can be produced to support targeted skills. For non verbal students or with challenging behaviour in person sessions could be suggested for addressing specific change after a range of online interventions.

You can request special communication and learning resources to enable movement in lessons, and online lessons can adhere to that too. Handmade 3-D objects can be brought to life as supporting educational tools. Board games is another solution to make sure students keep their hands and legs occupied creatively while resources are used and learning is happening. Settings for reading, singing and writing while standing and/or in movement are a must along with attention span development through precise plans and records.

Students across all key stages have been supported with becoming well organised and building their time management skills. Students and parents will experience a positive change as we focus on confidence in thinking, answering and engaging. Most of the times hesitation is the enemy of progress and nothing more than that. With a personalised learning plan paired with a good prompt schedule – based on Applied Behaviour Theories’ values you can see magic happen – i.e. a 2 year old develops his attention span from 5 minutes to 45-50 minutes in less than 3 months! The top targeted skills are time management, note-taking, research and independent preparation. These make students independent and proud for taking responsibility for their work.

Social and communication skills is the number 1 priority in this group of needs. Emotional regulation is second in line with a range of interactive resources for the students. Careful personalised target setting is a great strategy to use along with confidence building, mentoring and vocational training. Interview and social interaction support can be also given through role play and relaxing activities. Main strategy is to provide engaging content with a positive approach for small step praise.

Toddlers can as well have the right to some high quality educational opportunities through games and playful resources that develop soft skills and hand-eye coordination. We learn through experimenting and using sensory aspects of items around us. Music can play an important role for brain development in young ages and composing small songs can come as your special personalised request. Furthermore, handwriting and doodling can help increase thinking speed while phonics and singing will help speak faster. For sentence structure and parts of speech a colourful classification technique is used for easier understanding with mix&match for advanced learners. Team play with friends or activities with favourite pets to support relationship building, attainment, engagement and active listening skills are promoted online too.

Get some strong public speaking and presentation skills through role play and real opportunities. The website’s blog can be used as a tool for students that want to publish or present their work. Katerina Sopidi has presented her artistic work (commendation award in 2013) and gave personal interviews to newspapers, magazines, TV shows and radio programmes. Anyone can pitch their ideas to connect with investors, charity representatives and board directors of museums or other institutions – that’s how we connect for causes we support. You can be a part of professional creative production team or even lead one – no limits to your dreams.

Katerina Sopidi has published advice to parents/carers in a family oriented blog and her video channel. You can request ideas for crafting or even advice for a specific need your child has. There is no problem without a solution. Thinking out of the box while using some great organisation techniques and behaviour management strategies will unlock the potential of the relationship with your child.