English Language Instructor
King Saud University
Total years of experience :9 years, 0 Months
•Training with the KSU preferred teaching materials and delivery methods that consist of the four language integration skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening.
•Providing classroom presence and put students first by demonstrating energy, vision and creativity.
•Teaching general, academic English and English for specific practice, and in this case medical.
•Instructing students in the language arts including reading comprehension, writing, listening and speaking.
•Implementing quality teaching and prepared learning materials to ensure that effective learning is taking place in the classroom.
•Demonstrating high-quality classroom teaching skills and successfully employing flexible, adaptive approaches and constructive strategies to allow students to reach their full potential
•Applying student learning processes & resources throughout my teaching to promote effective learning.
•Recording and monitoring students’ attendance.
•Preparing students for external examinations.
•Managing students’ behavior in the classroom.
•Administrating examinations.
•Accustomed to working under GMP/GLP regulations within the pharmaceutical industry
•Extensive knowledge and experience gained in the synthesis of crosslinked and linear polyurethane polymers for drug delivery applications
•Polymer processing using injection moulding and extrusion techniques
•Polymer characterisation using tensile testing, rheometry, DSC, FTIR, GPC, TGA, DMTA, SEM, midIR, shore hardness and solubility testing in organic solvents.
•Basic knowledge of analytical experiments for dissolution and drug permeation analysis
•Responsible for the set-up of the new R&D store, purchasing orders for required research materials, Health and Safety representative
•Supervision of summer placement students
•Served as a teacher for one to one or a group of 4 English language lessons for students of various ages and levels. Class size was between 22 to 25 students’ and their age between 17 - 40, learners’ background varied from Spain, France, Poland, Russia, Brazil, Chili, Somalia and Iraq.
•Prepared individual or group lesson plans and homework to fit each student’s ability, and was reliable and flexible to provide assistant for other teachers
The course consists of both theoretical and practical elements that include: •120 hours in class ESL certification •Unknown Language Journal – a log of my experience in undergoing tuition in a language that is totally new to me •Language Awareness – a series of theoretical awareness in grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation •Integrating the four language skills: reading, writing, speaking and listing •Introduction into the main aspects of English grammar, lexis and phonology •Classroom Management and Language-teaching Methodology •Observation of ESOL Teaching by Experienced Teachers •Lesson Plan Practice – with myself and tutor evaluation and feedback •Teaching Practice - with real learners of English, including evaluation and feedback from six one-hour lessons at different levels •Student Profile - preparation of a simple linguistic profile of an individual learner Key Skills I am creative with passion to teach English language. My experience of learning an unknown language helped me to reflect on the beginner English language learner’s point of view. I have been given an opportunity to convey educational concept through innovative approaches and to create my own teaching materials as a form of practical project in order to help me with my teaching experience.
Subjects studied included; Organic, Inorganic, Physical, Analytical and Forensic chemistry, Handling Chemical Data, Electrochemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Stereochemistry, Bonding and Symmetry, Photochemistry, Surface Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, and Kinetic and Mechanism, and Laboratory work in all Chemistry areas. My final year project, entitled “The Growth and Characterisation of Native Oxide and Sulphide Films on CdxHg(1-x)Te (CMT)”, involved the examination of the growth of the oxide and sulphide films on CMT by an electrochemical method. The layers of the film formed were characterised using various techniques such as electroanalytical, linear and non-linear optics.
