Thaleia Kouzoupi

I am teaching English as a foreign language as well as French, Italian and Greek at all levels.

I have taught Spanish at KS3.

I am holding a U.K. Q.T.S.

I am also an interpreter and a translator amongst French, Italian, Greek and English.

01/03/2021 – Present Regents Camps Oxford

Delivering GCSE Revision Courses (English)

Teacher Active, Teaching Personnel, Reed Education, Hays

Modern Foreign Language teacher and SEN Tutor

 

20/11/2013 – Present Oliver Grange Language Services Ltd –

Multilingual Translator and Interpreter for the NHS and the Social Services-Freelance

11/11/2014 – Present Teaching Personnel, Academic Appointments, Education Network, CER

Horsforth Evening Classes The Buckswood School, the Tomas Clarkson Academy, The Cathedral Academy WF, the Horsforth School Evening Classes., Southfield Grange Technology Academy, Priesthorpe School, St. Austin’s Catholic Primary School, St. Wilfried Catholic High School Castleford, Tong Leadership Academy, and others

Teacher of French, Spanish, Italian, Instructor, administrator, and Cover Supervisor 

• Taught primarily Italian and French across the curriculum in secondary education, in primary education, SEN, Inclusion and adult education.
• Used numerous teaching, supervising and communication techniques, with specific 
• Computer and data entering skills including the Safeguarding software. 
• Undertook additional tasks as compliance and mediation. 
• Planned material and assessed work while contributing to the team with contextual methodologies. 
• Supported the MFL (French, Italian, Spanish) department and reported to the Head or Manager. 
• Worked in groups or 1:1 and listened to individual needs and provided feedback, accordingly, ultimately leading to high performance and satisfaction of all parts concerned.
• Communicated effectively with people of all walks of life and of various backgrounds.
• Taught beginners and advanced Italian in evening classes’ adult education (Horsforth School Evening Classes)
• Used procedural audio and video sources with the proven ability to convey the teachings to the students.
• Observed classroom behaviour and successfully applied situational reflective approaches to solve issues with students alone or with a peer group.
• Experienced in working at classroom pace focusing at need to the vocabulary and structure, while encouraging students and managing diversity (SEND and other)
• Enthusiastically, covering the full spectrum of games, information, technologies, and cross-cultural information, tracing a logical pathway to all tasks. Attained the desired results through proper planning and organisation
• Applied A Level oral examination procedures for student’s final test (timing, recording, questioning appropriately)
• Overall, set up goals and objectives in accordance with the establishment’s rules. Students engaged in building solid teams upon the solid basis of proven contextual linguistic and cultural exposure. Trips and technology have been valuable to that effect.

Additional Job Summary

Abicare – Trained in Healthcare as front line worker, during the Covid lockdown

DHL – LS; Administrator; responsible for international shipping and customs.

Developing Initiatives Supporting Communities, Charity - Single Point of Contact

1. Blue Arrow Recruitment - Customer Service (Leeds Beckett University and DHL Courier Services)
2. De Vere Hotels - Multilingual Conference and Events Coordinator

Oxford Berlitz Language Centre – Business Modern Foreign language Tutor for an Oxford-Based Harley Davidson Motor Company at the Oxford Business Park.

Language Technology Education Services - Seminar Leader of Foreign Languages for Business

Modern Foreign Language Services - Independent Language Teacher and Translator

New York University, (U.S.A.) School of Arts - Lecturer in Italian Language and Culture (T.A.) at the Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo’.

Oxford Brookes University (OBU) School of Business (Merit)

Dual degree with the Master Grande Ecole du Commerce, Department of Marketing, Groupe ESC Dijon-Bourgnogne, France.

PgCert; the Oxford School of Hospitality Management..

University College London (dept. of Italian) and the New York University (NYU) School of Arts, 

Department of French and Italian

Italian Language and Literature.

Specialised in diaspora and researched 19th Century intellectuals in exile.

Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece (ΑΠΘ), School of Philosophy. (1st Grade)

BA 1st in Italian Language and Literature with French and translation studies.

Scholarships and Awards:

• The I.K.Y. State Scholarship, Greece. Annual recipient of the State Scholarship Foundation Award, following written examination. I qualified to study in the U.K. the Italian Language and Literature.
• Universita Statale di Milano.Certificato. Seminar attendance of arts and culture in Italy.
• NARIC comparability awarded
• QTS, UK Qualified Teacher Status

Institut Francais d’ Athenes, (I.F.A.). Certificate [Certificat de Langue Francaise]

CPD in Behaviour management

CPD in Crisis Management [Certificate]

Additional Information

• Board member of the Hellenic Red Cross with voting rights
• Member of the Oxford Hospitality Alumni Bacchus Society
• Ex board member of the Athens Benaki museum for Intellectual heritage and of the Goulandris’ Natural History Museum
• A systematic Writer and Public Speaker on literary subjects for the Sifnos and other newspapers
• Ex representative of the island of Sifnos on behalf of the Cycladic Women Organisation (Charity).
• P.T.A volunteer at the Independent St.Catherine’s British Embassy school and of the Byron College, Athens, Greece
• Enthusiast of the family-founded [Nicolas Kouzoupis] ‘Association Franco-Hellenique’, for cross-cultural and historical awareness, in Lyon, France