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Getting to know your new students

Ruth Tarrant

4th September 2016

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We're now well into the "Back to School" season, and to help you through the first week or so, here's the first post in a mini-series aimed at getting to know the new young people sitting in your classroom. This first post takes a quick look at the recently-hyped "I wish my teacher knew" story.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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