ABOUT

Dominic Salles is a polymath, helping schools and their leaders transform the curriculum, teaching and learning and, above all, progress. His books are aimed at getting the best results possible for students, teachers and school leaders alike.

His English Language Guide to getting 100% has more published comments from GCSE students getting grade 9 than any other guide on Amazon. His guides to story writing and description for GCSE students are equally successful.

His literature guides all show students how to achieve grade 9, and include Macbeth, An Inspector Calls, and The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Dominic Salles is a polymath, helping schools and their leaders transform the curriculum, teaching and learning and, above all, progress. His books are aimed at getting the best results possible for students, teachers and school leaders alike.

His English Language Guide to getting 100% has more published comments from GCSE students getting grade 9 than any other guide on Amazon. His guides to story writing and description for GCSE students are equally successful.

His literature guides all show students how to achieve grade 9, and include Macbeth, An Inspector Calls, and The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

He runs the YouTube channel, Mr Salles Teaches English, which hosts over 900 instructional videos. It is the second largest English teaching channel in the country, making it the largest run by a practising English teacher in the UK. 27% of his viewers report going up at least 3 grades from their mocks.

His book, The Slightly Awesome Teacher, shows you the techniques to get your teaching in the top 98th percentile, and reveals all the stuff you can't learn in 3 training days a year. He hates marking and lesson planning, and shows you how to get the most out of these while working much less. This is a bit of a surprise.

He grew up in Ibiza, Spain, which makes teaching English a bit of a surprise. He was an illegal immigrant in Canada at the age of 10, got deported, was homeless in London for 17 months, then lived in a council house. He went to nine different schools in three different countries; his parents went bankrupt twice and that he ever went to university is a bit of a surprise.

He became a tax inspector. That he even thought about teaching is a bit of a surprise.

He was a fat kid, weighing over 10 stone at 10, and putting on a stone every year until the age of 17, when he decided he might be good at sport, excelling at rugby, becoming a strong man, pulling lorries and the like. In his thirties he switched from power events to long distance rowing, becoming the 106th fastest marathon rower in the world which, while not spectacular, is still a bit of a surprise.

Most people don't think they can achieve great things, and listen to the voice in their heads that says, 'You can't do this, what's the point?' Dominic Salles also hears that voice, but he ignores it, which shouldn't come as a surprise. This is why he writes, and why his books will always aim to show students, teachers and curious readers how to get as close as possible to 100%.

He lives in Swindon, drives a Toyota, has two very surprising children and a workaholic wife who, surprisingly, puts up with him. His sister is a well known TV actress. His fame on YouTube and Amazon is such that he fails to get recognised, wherever he goes.