Patrick Fitzsimons is a French and Spanish teacher at the Institute of Education. He earned a First Class Honours degree in French and Spanish from University College Dublin, during which time he received several awards for his proficiency in each language. He has lived in both France and Spain.
He holds a Secondary PGCE in Modern Foreign Languages from the University of Cambridge, and he received a British Council Teacher Training scholarship to undertake this.
He has extensive experience teaching multiple languages for the Leaving Certificate, GCSE, A-Level and IB pathways, as well as the DELF and DELE exams for TY students of French and Spanish, with levels ranging from A1 to B2.