STAVROS MOUSLOPOULOS

Dr Stavros Mouslopoulos 

BA, PhD, DipEd, DipBus

I am currently a Math Teacher at Swiss Semester, Zermatt Switzerland.

Prior to my current position I was a Math Teacher at the  University of Brighton International College (in person) and Kaplan International College London (remote).

Prior to that, I was a math teacher at the Swiss Semester, Zermatt Switzerland (on leave from Kaplan International College London), and before that position, I held a teaching position at the Department of Science and Engineering at Kaplan International College London, based at London Bridge, London, UK. 

Apart from that, I am a fully Qualified Secondary School Teacher (Dip. Ed. UNSW, Sydney Australia, 2011 - Science). Over the last 12 years, I have been involved in teaching and private tuition in the areas of Mathematics and Physics and Statistics for Exam/College Preparation as well as University Level Courses. I have experience in the UK (GCSE & A-Levels), the International Baccalaureate curriculum in Physics (SL/HL) and Mathematics (SL/HL), the Australian (Year 11 & 12) School System as well as Oxbridge Admission tests (PAT/STEP/MAT). From the USA Curriculum, I am quite familiar with the AP AB and BC Calculus. Furthermore, I have worked as an Academic Researcher (Theoretical Particle Physics) at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA).

Professional Experience

My current position in the Swiss Semester entails teaching maths at the secondary level. The syllabus taught is the  Advanced Placement Calculus (also known as AP Calculus, AP Calc, or simply AB / BC) is a set of two distinct Advanced Placement calculus courses and exams offered by the American nonprofit organization College Board. Swiss Semester is a coeducational program of academic, personal, and physical challenge for roughly fifty high school sophomores from the finest independent and public schools in the United States and beyond. Swiss Semester’s campus is Zermatt, Switzerland, an outdoor paradise that epitomizes the security, stability, healthfulness, and natural beauty for which Switzerland is renowned.

In regard to the previous teaching role at Kaplan International College London: This role includes teaching Pre-Master’s students Statistics, Physics, and Mathematics. Over the last academic year, I have been the Pre-Master's Advanced Statistics Module (PM608) coordinator. The module consists of two intakes: The September Cohort and the January Cohort respectively - The duration of each is 20 weeks apart from some extra 10 weeks where students have to participate in the "Active Learning Weeks" as required by Kaplan. Each Cohort consists of approximately 100 students. Teaching is done in smaller groups of 20-30 students in a collaborative, interactive, "inverted classroom" setup. Each group has three hours of teaching every week on the topic. Over this period, I have been in charge of the teaching curriculum, exam preparation, online and offline content development for this particular course.  Apart from the A-Level maths courses, I have several teaching hours related to A-Level Physics (equivalent to Year 11, 12 HSC Physics). During this period I taught mostly face to face but given the circumstances, a small part of the instruction during the National lockdowns was done online.

 Apart from the previous role, I am a part-time Private Tutor in Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics. A large part of my work is related to University Level tuition but also the last two grades of High School (exam preparation). 

From my placements in UK and Australia and the USA, I have extensive experience and knowledge in teaching 1st and 2nd-year Physics courses, such as Classical Mechanics, Classical Electrodynamics, Thermodynamics, Calculus,  Statistics as well as more advanced 3rd and 4th-year subjects, such as Quantum Mechanics,  Quantum Field Theory, Optics & Lasers, Particle Physics, Special and General Relativity, etc. 

Moreover, I have taught various topics in University Level mathematics, such as Calculus, Advanced/Multivariable Calculus, Algebra, Complex Analysis, Group Theory, Differential Geometry, Differential Equations, Mathematical Physics, etc. 

Furthermore, I have experience in the UK schooling system and currently work with a number of London based tutoring offices, teaching Physics and Mathematics for GCSE/iGCSE and A-Levels (mainly AQA, CCEA, OCR).  

Additionally, I have extensive experience in the Australian NSW HSC Syllabus for Mathematics and Physics. 

I also have experience in the USA College/Universities Admission tests, such as the GRE Subject Tests (Physics and Mathematics) preparation as well as SAT and GMAT (Math/Quantitative/Analytic sections). From my placements in the USA, I have extensive experience in AP Physics and AP Calculus (AB & BC Calculus).

Teaching Approach

Obviously, apart from the context itself and the expertise in the related fields, there are other essential components of successful teaching like personality, enthusiasm, versatility, appreciation of the importance of outreach, and most important a relation of understanding between the lecturer and the students. 

Apart from the previous, I think that it is crucial to provide students with a working knowledge of physical systems and to teach them problem-solving skills for building upon this knowledge. Teaching a person to think analytically is at the core of what a student should take away from any science course. For students not majoring in physics/maths, it is important to teach them how science affects their daily lives and how to make informed decisions about it based on the information available. For physics/math majors it is crucial to teach them the knowledge pertinent to their course of study and how scientists solve difficult problems using approximation, computational, and other quantitative methods. These important tools are invaluable to future researchers because they aid in the careful design of experiments and in determining the predictions of a model or theory. I would also strive to cover a range of topics in my courses. This would enable me to teach an array of different methods for approaching physical problems and to demonstrate how similar approaches can be applied to problems from disparate fields. Furthermore, being a theoretician, I am well suited to teach physics majors how to construct theories and models, to derive predictions from these models, and to test these predictions against empirical data they have collected from the literature or obtained in the laboratory. Mentoring the research of undergraduate and graduate students is one of the most long-lasting contributions a researcher can make, and it is a process that I find fun and rewarding. 

From my experience, I learned the importance of engaging students through examples and of pitching material at a level that assumes intelligence but not necessarily knowledge, blending the known with the unknown in a combination that gives the student the feeling of possibility rather than that of impossibility that formal and impressive methods may impose. I would also enjoy teaching introductory physics courses. Although it is often challenging to teach introductory students, it is a challenge I thoroughly enjoy. Preparing lectures and solution sets forces me to communicate fundamental ideas in simple terms and to think deeply again about some of the most basic principles in physics. 

During my graduate school period, I had the chance to become familiar with the system of tutorials that some of the British universities offer. This much more personalized system provides the opportunity of outside of the classroom discussion and interaction which are a crucial part of the learning process. Many students who are reserved in class, ask excellent questions in smaller settings and thus, learn much more. I greatly value the instruction and mentorship I received while in college and feel strongly about providing quality education to current and future students. 

Over the last 12 years, I have been involved in Private Tuition in the areas of Mathematics and Physics mainly at the university level but also in the last two grades of high school.  

My resume is also attached for your review.

Thank you for your attention to these materials.

 I certainly look forward to exploring this further. 

Yours truly,

Stavros Mouslopoulos 

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY I am currently a Math Teacher at Swiss Semester, Zermatt Switzerland Apart from that, I am a fully Qualified  Secondary School Teacher (Science). Over the last 12 years, I have been involved in Private Tuition in the areas of Mathematics and Physics for Exam/College Preparation as well as University Level courses. I have experience in the UK (GCSE & A-Levels), International Baccalaureate Curriculum (SL & HL), the Australian (Year11 & 12) School System, The American AP1 and AP2 Physics and AP Calculus (AB, BC) as well as the Oxbridge Admission tests (PAT/STEP). WORK HISTORY 08/2022 - 12/2022 Swiss Semester, Zermatt Switzerland Maths Teacher @ Swiss Semester (Fall 2021) 01/2022 - 08/2022 University of Brighton International College | Brighton, UK Science and Engineering Tutor in Statistics, Mathematics (Face to Face and Online Teaching) and Kaplan International College London | London, UK Science and Engineering Tutor in Statistics, Mathematics and Physics (Online). 08/2021 - 12/2021 Swiss Semester, Zermatt Switzerland Maths Teacher @ Swiss Semester (Fall 2021)  08/2019 - 08/2021 Kaplan International College London | London, UK Science and Engineering Tutor in Statistics (Module Coordinator), Mathematics and Physics. 05/2019 - Current Private Tutor in Physics and Mathematics | London, UK In collaboration with Skooli, Tutorfair, Classgap, Scoodle, Tutorean, Tutor House, Tutors International, Spires Tuition, Lessonface, First Tutors, etc. 01/2017 - 05/2019 Personal Leave of Absence, Travelling 02/2010 - 01/2017 Sydney Science Tutoring | Sydney, Australia Maths and Physics Private Tutor Self-Employed Private Tutor in Mathematics and Physics in the Greater Sydney Area 07/2010 - 05/2016 Roofsafe Industrial Safety | Sydney, Australia Part-time Scientific Consultant Modelling safety line equipment in the context of classical mechanics (physics) and at the same time developing a code that would allow real calculations of their response given any value or combination of safety equipment setup. 08/2008 - 02/2010 Fleet-Tutors, Keystone Tutors | London, England Private Science Tutor, London, UK (GCSE, A-Levels & Uni) Private Science/Mathematics Tutor 09/2003 - 12/2007 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Berkeley, USA Postdoctoral Research Associate Research in Theoretical Particle Physics 09/2002 - 09/2003 Los Alamos National Laboratory | Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA Postdoctoral Research Associate Research in Theoretical Particle Physics

EDUCATION 2011 University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia Diploma in Secondary School Education (Science) Fully Qualified Secondary School Teacher (Science) 2002 Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom PhD: Theoretical High Energy Particle Physics Thesis: 'Multi-Scale Physics from Multi-Braneworlds' 1998 University of Ioannina | Ioannina, Greece Bachelor of Science: Physics Graduated with HD 9.2/10 2012 Kent Institute of Business and Technology | Sydney, AU Diploma in Business