English Language Assistant
Centro de Estudios CEI
Total years of experience :14 years, 11 Months
Planning, development and successful delivery of English classes using the Communicative Approach and being also in charge of monthly assessments to track their progress.
Development and delivery of teaching and learning to meet student needs effectively and efficiently and thereby raise preparation and success.
Key Responsibilities:
• Conducting private tuition for students appearing for Cambridge exams, implementing teaching and learning programs accordingly. Providing activities and materials that engage and challenge the students intellectually.
• Utilizing appropriate teaching methods to enhance verbal and written skills of students by empowering them with language tools (grammar, idioms, vocabulary).
• Preparing assignments, weekly / monthly tests to assess students' learning levels. Utilizing both formal and informal methods of teaching, like debates and discussions.
• Organizing multiple teaching methods that included visual, tactical, and auditory materials to reinforce or simplify complex concepts.
• Teaching learning skills: how to write a research paper, time management, speed reading and similar skills, understanding the diverse background students come from, their strengths, weaknesses and areas of interest.
• Handling various translation projects, translating and summarizing material from one language into another, demonstrating excellent command over English, French, Spanish and Italian.
Key Responsibilities:
• Planned teaching methodology for 2nd and 4th grade students, designed and implemented strategic learning modules to optimize performance, class quality and learning outcomes.
• Taught all areas of the primary curriculum, developed schemes of work and lesson plans in line with curriculum objectives.
• Established a proactive rapport with students to enhance and bolster learning in a stress free environment. Developed and fostered the appropriate skills to enable the optimum development of children, according to age, ability and aptitude.
• Responsible for the progress of a class of primary-age pupils. Communicated effectively with students, ascertained deficiencies and provided required support to negate identified deviations from achievement.
• Organized the classroom and learning resources and created displays to encourage a positive learning environment. Prepared pupils for examinations.
• Maintained discipline and highly conducive atmosphere for learning and development, encouraging healthy competition, challenging and inspiring pupils to help them deepen their knowledge and understanding.
• Assessed and recorded progress, conducted parent-teacher meetings, provided feedback to parents on pupil's progress.
• Established positive relationships with students, parents, fellow teachers and school administrators/staff.
• Kept abreast with changes and developments in the structure of the curriculum.
Key Responsibilities:
• Directed and coordinated department activities in a private aviation school. Prepared long-term teaching programs as well as daily lessons in accordance with the guidelines of the institute's system.
• Taught English to students of all levels, assisted students to prepare for Cambridge and Trinity exams. Designed course material, instructed, supervised, and facilitated student learning.
• Recognized the needs of individual students and group at large. Offered support as needed using flexible groups, workshops, compacting and other differentiation models.
• Interviewed applicants for teaching positions, ensured right people with the desired level of competence are brought into the organization.
• Researched and developed new material. Carried out functional assessment activities whilst monitoring each student development.
• Drafted monthly reports of all the different department’s areas and submitted to the company's national central base.
Working for this prestigious and fastlyexpanding academy gave me the opportunity to teach English using a different methodology created by the owner of the schools. On a daily basis, I had to teach English to groups of all levels and ages. Exams for the University of Cambridge and the Trinity College are prepared all through the year.
Key Responsibilities:
• Translated all kind of documents, reread original texts to ensure that translations retain the content, meaning, and feeling of the original material.
• Acted as interpreter in many different environments, facilitated effective communication between two parties that did not speak similar language.
• Received accolades from all the clients for the outstanding work of translation and interpretation.
• Checked translations of technical terms and terminology to ensure that they are accurate and remain consistent throughout translation revisions.
• Referred to reference materials such as dictionaries, lexicons, encyclopedias, and computerized terminology banks as needed to ensure translation accuracy.
Previous Professional Experience:
• January 2013 - April 2013: English Teacher, Academia Bi, Murcia, Spain.
- Prepared students from the age of 3 for Cambridge exams at all levels.
• April 2010 - May 2011: English Teacher, Fluency Idiomas, Spain
- The school have branches in many regions, students are prepared for exams from the University of Cambridge and the Trinity College all around the year and students always get high marks.
• September 2005 - May 2011: Freelance English Teacher, UK
- Proffered private English tuition to students coming from Europe and the Middle East. Also taught Italian and Spanish.
• February 2007 - May 2007: Secretary (Degree Placement), Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A, Italy
• September 2006 - February 2007: Trainee Translator (Degree Placement), Sinergo International Srl, Italy
Other Trainings and Certifications: • CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching for Adults), University of Cambridge.
Received Scholarship from the British Government. - BA (Hons) Modern Languages with Translation and Interpreting broad based degree covering, EFL (English as a Foreign Language), Italian, linguistics and also translation and interpreting. - Specialized in medical translation and also commercial and political EU interpreting in the final year.