Joan Adrian Tabalanza, Online English Teacher

Joan Adrian Tabalanza

Online English Teacher

Bibo Global Opportunity, Inc.

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Master's degree, Language Education
Experience
13 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 7 Months

Online English Teacher at Bibo Global Opportunity, Inc.
  • Philippines
  • My current job since March 2015

Responsibilities:
•Delivering one-on-one online lesson to foreign students within prescribed time.
•Answering inquiries about language skills and learning strategies.
•Demonstrating good oral communication in English.
•Preparing lesson notes with key details on students’ strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement.

Achievement/s:
•Voted to be among the most popular teachers due to teaching competence and emotional intelligence.
•Commended by clients for sending “professional” lesson notes.

Academic Consultant for English at MSA Review and Tutorial Center
  • Philippines
  • February 2013 to March 2015

Responsibilities:
•Displaying expertise on a subject matter to retain clients/students (i.e. local and international exams).
•Supervising newly hired English teachers and giving feedback on their performance.
•Presenting new trends and research on English language teaching during monthly meetings.

Achievements:
•Improved client/student performance by an average of 30%.
•Enhanced students’ self-confidence in speaking as attested by them and the frequency of their speech.

English Instructor at National University
  • Philippines
  • July 2014 to November 2014

Responsibilities:
•Conducting English courses to students of engineering, architecture, IT, and dentistry courses.
•Innovating class activities and assessment methods based on latest research.
•Exhibiting content and procedural knowledge of industry-related tasks in business English context.
•Arranging consultation meetings with problematic students in order to meet the requirements of their course.
•Coordinating with the department heads to address some pressing issues involving tardiness, plagiarism, and behaviorial misconduct.

Achievements:
•Increased grades of students in long quizzes and final exams by an average of 25%.
•Recognized by Department Head for exemplary teaching after a class observation.

Assistant Teacher at Ocean Sky Chan Monastery
  • Philippines
  • October 2010 to February 2013

Responsibilities:
•Conducting a Buddhism-oriented class of mixed-age and mixed-ability grade school students.
•Developing lesson plans based on the existing curriculum and core values.
•Leading a post-class meeting to generate better ideas and activities that are student-friendly.

Achievements:
•Achieved more organization in delivering reading and grammar lessons.
•Attained more observable student participation due to reduction of language barrier.
•Recognized for having the most behaved and participative group of students.

English and Basic Math Tutor at Private Tutorial Service (self-employment)
  • Philippines
  • December 2010 to August 2012

Responsibilities:
•Diagnosing learning problems to provide better teaching solutions and learning activities.
•Creating intervention tests and exercises to boost motivation and English language development.
•Analyzing tutees’ reading problems using informal reading inventory and diagnostic test.

Achievements:
•Refined student reading skill from lexical to paragraph level.
•Aided student reading comprehension to reach evaluative level.

Education

Master's degree, Language Education
  • at University of the Philippines
  • December 2016

courses: in October 2010; ongoing. •Successfully accomplished 42 units of a total 54-unit coursework. •Carefully developed a training program for ESL teachers and a reading program for mixed–age class •Conducted seminar on motivation and teaching skills for novice teachers

Bachelor's degree, Broadcast Communication
  • at Polytechnic University of the Philippines
  • May 2007

-Consistently managed to be on a dean's list for three academic years -Learned the requisites of media production, management, and research -Honed public presentation skill through hosting gigs -Developed creative writing skill by working with student-writers in classes -Publicly recognized by a TV program for bagging the first-place award in a student documentary competition

Specialties & Skills

Public Speaking
Materials Development
Lesson Planning
Classroom Management
Classroom Instruction
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
CONSULTING
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
LISTENING
LOTUS NOTES
MEETING FACILITATION
PRESENTATION SKILLS
PUBLIC SPEAKING
QUALITY

Languages

English
Expert
Filipino
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

TESOL (Training)
Training Institute:
International TESOL Education and Consultancy
Date Attended:
June 2014
Duration:
120 hours
Understanding Assessment: Speaking (Training)
Training Institute:
Cambridge English
Date Attended:
November 2016
Duration:
1 hour

Hobbies

  • Public Speaking
    -Awarded first-place honor in an impromptu speech contest and third place honor in a prepared speech competition in March 2015 -Assigned as a secretary to update fellow members of the latest news about the club