OBJECTIVE: Teacher

PROFILE
• 8 years’ experience in education industry, including teaching and tutoring at the university level
• 9 years’ experience writing and editing in multiple mediums and faculties, including academic research and PhD thesis editing and graduate level tutoring particularly teaching scientific writing to graduate students
• Possesses ACE-TESOL certificate
• Curriculum planning, materials and assessment design, development and implementation
• Teacher coordinator with experience managing people with various needs, facilitating meetings, utilizing decision making abilities, and assisting with project administration
• Professional communicator with a track record of contributing to publications, teaching, evaluating, and critically approaching and managing content from multiple mediums
• Able to work co-operatively within a team
• Sensitive to students' learning, language, and emotional challenges
• Familiar with academic protocol in regards to plagiarism and authorship, essay and report writing, and referencing styles
• Understanding of second language learning and knowledge of conventions used to teach language
• Able to screen for learning needs, preferences, and learning disabilities
• Ability to change instruction style based on culture and language group of students
• Experience with student recruitment
• Low- intermediate knowledge of Chinese language

WORK EXPERIENCE
ESL Teacher (Jan. 2016 – Jan. 2017)
London International Academy
Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu, China/ London, Ontario, Canada

Lecturer (Feb. 2015 - Aug. 2015)
Guilin University of Electric Technology/Guilin Institute of Information Technology Guilin, Guangxi, China

Lecturer, Curriculum planner, Foreign Teachers Co-ordinator (Feb. 2014 - Jan. 2015)
Yulin Normal University, Yulin, Guangxi, China

Writer
China Daily, Shanxi Daily News Building, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China (July 2015)
Imprint Newspaper, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada Jan. (2011-Sept. 2014)
The Record, Kitchener, ON, Canada (Dec. 2012- Mar. 2013)

Lecturer (Aug. 2012)
ESL Department, Renison College, Waterloo, ON, Canada

EDUCATION
Master of Arts, Cultural Analysis and Social Theory (2011)
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada

ACE-TESOL Certificate (2008)
Renison College, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Bachelor of Arts, English Rhetoric (2007)
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada