Go Beyond Apps: Real English Mastery with a Linguistics Specialist for students of ages upper elementary to adults.

Career Switcher Program.

• Create customized lessons for business professionals that match their industry needs. • Utilize and implement best practices in ESL while maintaining an engaging classroom environment. • Teach customized and preplanned English lessons to adults and children. • Find creative ways to cater to student interests while staying on task and completing all curriculum requirements.

• Created interactive, high-interest lessons for students on and off-line to go along with VA SOL/ACTFL standards. • Used popular interactive applications like Kahoot, Google Slides, and Nearpod to deliver innovative teaching to students. • Collaborated with all language teachers to create exploratory lessons that develop necessary skills for continued and future language courses. • Found creative ways to cater to student interests while staying on task and completing curriculum requirements.

• Created a positive classroom atmosphere that allows students to overcome language and distance barriers and successfully learn English as a second language. • Utilized and implemented best practices in ESL while maintaining an engaging classroom environment. • Maintained an exemplary teaching record with all positive parent ratings and near perfect attendance. • Found creative ways to cater to student interests while staying on task and completing all curriculum requirements.

• Collaborated with special education teacher to modify and customize lessons and activities to include special education students in grades K-5. • Tutored students individually and in small groups. • Assisted students in meeting behavioral goals using a variety of reinforcement methods. • Assisted as directed by classroom and special education teachers to successfully maintain students with special needs in an integrated setting as determined by IEP

Taught a year-long course in General and Business English to a group of Government Auditors from Saudi Arabia. • Designed and implemented a custom curriculum for English as a Second Language with a focus on business terminology and concepts. • Created original materials for course presentation and subsequent use by other instructors. • Additional course highlights included hands-on and podium instruction in the use of the Internet, web page creation, and various current word processing software programs.