English Teacher
Rafic Hariri High School
Total years of experience :20 years, 7 months
EFL COORDINATOR for Middle and High School 2016- present
Duties:
• Providing strategic leadership skills
• Consulting with senior and departmental colleagues to ensure that developments are consistent with the school’s broader aims and policies and are in the best interests of the students
• Ensuring that departmental evaluation is effective both in terms of staff performance and the academic standards
• Producing Departmental Improvement (Development) Plans to address the identified priorities
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER September 2003 - present
Duties:
• Teaching English as a first foreign (ESL) and second foreign language (EFL)
• Teaching English Literature
• Implementing public speaking skills in class and clubs
• Planning and conducting activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provide students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate
• Adapting teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students’ varying needs and interests
• Planning, preparing and delivering lessons to a range of proficiency levels
• Preparing students for the Saint Louis University English Proficiency Examination
• Ensuring that effective tracking of students’ progress is in place with accurate intervention plan
Distant Learning course: Educators in this course who work with pre-teens (ages 10-12) and teens (ages 13-¬18) learn how to motivate students in these age groups by designing collaborative projects that involve topics critical to 21st century learners. Student-¬centered practices and opportunities to introduce student choice in the EFL classroom are modeled and applied in this course. Participants learn how to identify, evaluate, and apply a wide variety of age-appropriate strategies and how to develop students’ language and critical thinking skills through project-¬based and collaborative learning experiences. Projects created by former participants (and available for current participants to review)include the following themes/topics: •My planet/my life: environmental issues. •My friends/my community/my world: tolerance, diversity, and bullying. •My future/my way: work-readiness, entrepreneurship, and service learning.
Arabic-Fiction-Poetry-Drama- French-Translation-Reading and Listening- Linguistics – Morphology and Syntax-Poetry- Critics- Essay- Modern Poetry – Semantics and Discourse analysis – Modern Drama- World fiction – Teaching Methods …
