شذى خلف

- Teaching Arabic & English (online tutor)

- Adults, Students, children

• Coached team members, providing feedback and encouraging them to reach their highest level.
• Responsible for the subject team’s success in improving students’ attainment and progress.
• Ensuring excellence in the quality of education, review and development and teaching and learning programs.
• Ensuring that staff resources are managed equitably and efficiently across the School and managing school’s daily affairs.

Taught Arabic Language for non native students
of MYP - grades 6, 7, 8 & 9
Taught UAE Social Studies for the students of grades 6, 7, 8, 9
• Prepared all teaching material and ensured academic syllabus was completed in time.
• Kept classroom sessions interactive and thought-provoking, ensured introvert students also contributed in group sessions and used innovative learning tools and techniques to convey knowledge.
• Practiced effective and results oriented teaching styles, used the latest tools and methodologies available that can provide maximum learning benefit to the students.

• Taught English to students- English courses to all levels.

• Evaluated the course-work and curriculum for English as defined by TESL, prepared teaching material and conducted classes accordingly.
• Provided guidance and advice to the class, identified weaknesses in learning among students and utilized creative methods to facilitate their understanding of the language.
• Consistently monitored students’ performance and progress across various lessons gave feedback for improvement and improved their learning curve.

Key Responsibilities
• Taught English for secondary stages as per the curriculum, maintain high level of student engagement during classes, and developed effective teaching material.
• Developed lesson plans and finalized teaching techniques and tools to be used, prepared and implemented classroom activity plan for all sessions.
• Encouraged students to discuss their opinions about the lessons taught, helped improved their thought processes and spoken language skills.
• Gave daily homework assignments and ensured completion by next day, discussed these assignments in class and resolved difficulties faced by the students.
• Enhanced linguistic abilities of the students to enable them to converse properly in international work environments.
• Monitored and evaluated improvements, conducted tests and rendered helpful feedback; coordinated with other colleagues to implement best teaching practices.
• Used various proven instructional techniques and strategies to meet different learning needs of students, and ensured significant progress in learning among them.

• Fostered and maintained a highly conducive environment for learning English language for intermediate and secondary students.
• Prepared and implemented teaching schedules and plans, and ensured all topics as outlined in the coursework of the languages were duly covered in learning sessions.
• Designed innovative techniques to help effective understanding and progress as per the students’ levels of learning, helped them work around learning difficulties.
• Conducted interactive and participative sessions, finalized interesting activities and challenges for the class that further enhanced language skills.
• Conducted assessments and provided oral and written evaluation of performance to students, provided suggestions for improvements where needed.

Previous Assignments
• Nov 1993 - Oct 1999: Translator & HR Officer, Al-mustanseriah University, Iraq, Baghdad