Foundation Manager
Laureate Vocational Saudi Arabia
Total years of experience :19 years, 3 Months
• Managing in excess of 40 English/IT/MTH instructors.
• Increasing students’ teacher led extra-curricular activities by 100 %.
• Planning and delivering a yearly average of 8 in-house training sessions based on teachers’ needs following their observations and agreed development plans.
• Increasing students’ attendance and retention to 80% versus 70% through better engagement schemes and improved college journey.
• Leading the shift in assessment platforms from paper based to computer based by 100%.
• Increasing students’ pass rates in PET standardized external assessments to exceed 90% versus the lowest achievement of under 50 % prior to leading the department.
• Increasing students’ progression from foundation to Diploma.
• Creating and promoting a healthy culture of motivation, readiness to improve and enthusiasm to explore and adopt new innovation and ideas from faculty and students.
• Managing the administration of Cambridge PET exams for more than 2000 students over a period of 4 years.
• Teaching 25 hours per week.
• Better guide my team into the easiest routes of lesson planning and delivery.
• Leading the English program for engineering students to what best suits students’ needs in the marketplace post-graduation.
• Teaching English to students in different cycles aged 6-15.
• Providing Guidance and Counselling for refugee students.
• Better guiding the teachers on developing professionally being a member of the schools CPD team.
• Assisting head of school in better utilization of teachers and scheduling their timetables.
• Assisting in communicating the school’s mission and vision to PTA and representing head teacher in meetings with parents.
Assisting Palestinian low achieving students in English language through providing extra-English classes on weekly basis for a period of two years.