Work Experience and Professional Development
July 2021 English Language Teacher To Present Illumine: China, Shanghai
Outline
English language teacher for grade 2 students.
Key Responsibilities
- Teaching grade 2 children aged 5 – 8 in person for a 5-week summer camp and online after.
- Created activities for the children.
- Developed an English curriculum for the summer camp and specific educational goals.
- Teaching English reading and writing.
- Encouraged a positive learning environment with excellent student-teacher interaction.
- Write student reviews to help identify their strengths and advise how to build on areas that need improvement.
2020 -2021 Middle School English Language Arts Teacher
Wenlai IIC Middle School: China, Shanghai
Outline
Middle School English Language Arts teacher for Grade 6
Key Responsibilities
- Daily Grade 6 English teacher for speaking, writing, and comprehension activities.
- Grade 6 English reading class. Helping students develop reading and comprehension skills.
- Prepared lesson plans to accommodate students with varying English proficiency levels in the same classroom.
- Prepare and Administer semester exams on all the material covered in class.
- Conducted group and individual Reading and Grammar activities in the classroom.
- Encouraged a positive learning environment and excellent student-teacher interaction.
- Write student reviews each semester to help identify their strengths and advise how to build on areas that need improvement.
2018 - 2020 Middle School English Teacher
Pinghe Bilingual School: China, Shanghai
Outline
Middle School English teacher for Grade 6 - 8
Key Responsibilities
- Curriculum development for grade 7
- Grade 6 and 7 English reading class. Helping students develop reading, comprehension and creative writing skills.
- Prepared lesson plans to accommodate students with varying English proficiency levels in the same classroom.
- Prepare and administer exams.
- Encouraged a positive learning environment and excellent student-teacher interaction.
- Participated in faculty and parent conferences.
- Communicated with other teachers at weekly meetings to improve the teaching curriculum.
2016 - 2018 English Language Trainer
Learnlight: Spain
Outline
Online English Language Trainer for Adults.
Key Responsibilities
- Business English trainer on a one-to-one basis online
- Conversational English trainer for adults online
- Nurtured students’ ability to think critically by fostering discussion around daily and controversial topics.
- Virtual Groups English Trainer for adults with shared video
- Helped students with English for Business and Presentations
- Doing level testing of new and prospective students, placing them into a suitable level, and assigning the correct level to students.
- Conducted monthly student evaluations to provide feedback on strengths and weaknesses.
2014 - 2016 Travel Agent
Pentravel: Cape Town, South-Africa
Outline
Leisure Travel Agent
Key Responsibilities
- Leisure Travel Agent: Customer service oriented
- Booking flights on Amadeus
- Deal with Suppliers and tour organizers on behalf of my clients
- Attend workshops by travel suppliers and agents for product knowledge
- In charge of marketing goods for our Pentravel shop
- Keep an ongoing relationship with clients
2013 Business English Teacher
Communicorp: Chile, Santiago
Outline
Teaching business English at companies to adults
Key Responsibilities
- Conversational English trainer for adults on a one-to-one basis
- Group Business English classes to adults.
- Prepared lesson plans to accommodate students with varying English proficiency levels.
- Conducted group and individual Reading and Grammar activities.
- Encouraged a positive learning environment and excellent student-teacher interaction.
- Nurtured students’ ability to think critically by fostering discussion around controversial topics.
- Developed management techniques to motivate students and promote proper social interactions.
2010 - 2013 English Language Teacher
BKC-International House: Russia, Moscow
Outline
Teaching young learners, teenagers, and adults (beginner, elementary and intermediate, Upper-intermediate and Advanced) English as a second language.
Key Responsibilities
- Personalized lessons conducted lessons based upon the academic needs of students to ensure student mastery of unit goals.
- Teaching an FCE preparation course
- Facilitated and trained students for the TOEFL exams
- Taught In-company Business lessons for 1 year.
- Developed management techniques to motivate students and promote proper social interactions.
- Doing level testing of prospective and new students.
- Skillfully balanced the expectations of parents, students, and management to accommodate the desires of all parties.
2010 – 2012 English Language Teacher
Native Speakers: Russia, Moscow
Outline
Teaching at a Gymnasium Zhukovka Private Grammar School to help students of all ages and levels with their English grammar and speaking.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepared lesson plans to accommodate students with varying English proficiency levels.
- Developed management techniques to motivate students and promote proper social interactions.
- Teaching young learners, teenagers, and adults (beginner, elementary and intermediate, Upper-intermediate and Advanced) in one-to-one classes.
2011-2012 English Language Teacher
StudyLab, Russia, Moscow
Outline
Teaching teenagers (Study Teens group). Had weekend sessions with students where the lesson is based on a fun topic and tried to make the learning process fun but very informative.
Key Responsibilities
- In charge of developing classroom materials.
- Administered implementation and design of all the lessons.
- Conducted group and individual Reading and Grammar activities.
2010 – 2011 Primary School English Teacher
Choueifat International School: UAE, Al Ain
Outline
Teaching Grade 3 and 4 English and Social studies
Key Responsibilities
- Designed and planned daily unit lessons for each class and administered tests and evaluations.
- Participated in faculty and parent conferences.
- Teaching Grade 5 and 7 Special English, this was to help students who were having trouble in their regular classes or whose English marks were not up to standard.
- Developed management techniques to motivate students.
2009 – 2010 High School English, History and Geography Teacher
Choueifat International School: UAE, Al Ain
Outline
Grades 7,8 and 9 English, Social Studies/History, and Geography Teacher
Key Responsibilities
- Teaching Grade 7,8 and 9 Social Studies/History and Geography
- Teaching Grade 7,8 and 9 English – Grammar, Literature, Anthology, and Writing
- Teaching Grade 8 and 9 Special English, this was to help students who were having trouble in their regular classes or whose English marks were not up to standard.
- Mediated issues between students and fostered a cooperative and cohesive classroom that reached its learning objectives.
- Skillfully balanced the expectations of parents, students, and management to accommodate the desires of all parties.
- Wrote lesson plans and conducted lessons based upon the academic needs of students to ensure student mastery of unit goals.
- Administered quizzes, and tests.
- Participated in faculty and parent conferences.
- Wrote student reviews each semester to help identify their strengths and advised how to build on areas that needed improvement.
2008 – 2009 English Language Teacher
Shane English school: Japan, Tokyo
Outline
English language teacher to children and adults of all levels.
Key Responsibilities
- Teaching children ages 2-13 (Beginner, Intermediate, and Upper-intermediate), my youngest students were a brother and sister aged 2 and 3.
- Teaching teenagers ages 14-18 (Intermediate, Upper-intermediate, and Advanced)
- Teaching Adults (Intermediate, Upper intermediate, and Advanced)
- Teaching Business English to Adults
- Designed and planned daily unit lessons for each class and administered tests and evaluations.
- Facilitated and trained students for the TOEFL exams
- Developed management techniques to motivate students and promote proper social interactions.
2008 English Language Teacher
UNCAN T&G Winter Camp: South Korea, Jeonju
Outline
English Winter school for primary school students.
Key Responsibilities
- Teaching children aged 5 – 16, I had morning classes with a group of 23, 6-year-old beginner students followed by afternoon lessons with teenagers aged 14 to 16.
- Had to create activities for the children.
- Developed an English curriculum for the winter camp and specific educational goals.
- Designed and planned daily unit lessons for each class.
- Encouraged a positive learning environment and excellent student-teacher interaction.
- Managed 20 students per class and supervised collaborative projects to maintain an engaged learning environment.
2007 General and Business English Teacher
(10 weeks) RMIT University: Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City
Outline
Teaching university students English to prepare them to be able to study Business Management in English– aged 18-23
Key Responsibilities
- I presented a weekly workshop on Giving Presentations and on Pronunciation at RMIT University to the students.
- Teaching a Corporate Business class for 4h a week (aged 28-45)
- Designed and planned daily unit lessons for each class and administered tests and evaluations.
- Nurtured students’ ability to think critically by fostering discussion around controversial topics.
- Conducted group and individual Reading and Grammar activities.
- Encouraged a positive learning environment and excellent student-teacher interaction.
- Administered oral tests to assess development.
2007 English Language Teacher
ILA: Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City
Outline
Teaching children ages 5-18 English as a second language (Beginner, Intermediate, Upper-intermediate, and Advanced)
Key Responsibilities
- Level testing young learners for 5h a week.
- Attended weekly improvement seminars on different teaching-related topics.
- Prepared lesson plans to accommodate students with varying English proficiency levels.
- Had weekly meetings with other teachers to improve the teaching curriculum.
- Conducted monthly student evaluations to provide feedback on strengths and weaknesses.
- Encouraged a positive learning environment and tried to create a love for the English language.
- Developed classroom management techniques.
