Amanda Catron Email & Phone Number

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

Gainesville, Florida, United States

Contracted for projects in computational linguistics, natural language processing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI, programming, transcription, image/text validation in semantics, audio/text native speaker validation. Companies include DefinedCrowd, Outlier, and more.Contracted for projects in research, content writing, article writing, thesis/dissertation editing, textbook writing and editing.

Contracted for resume, CV, and cover letter writing and editing. Contracted for interview skills training, mock interviews, and salary negotiation.Contracted for social media content creation, administration, and marketing in the form of acting administrator (admin/moderator) for The Professor Is Out Facebook group (30,000 members) by Dr. Karen Kelsky.

Gainesville, Florida Area

My tutoring approach provides a language learning experience unique in its incorporation of strategy building including reducing foreign language anxiety, building agency, and developing self-regulated learning skills. My aim is to help learners reach their second language goals through not only language teaching, but student empowerment as well. During tutoring sessions, I work towards helping students realize and build their own agency, resulting in a self-actualized, relaxed, and engaged learning environment. Through this one-of-a-kind coaching method, success is having students end tutoring feeling that they are competent, intelligible, and composed speakers of the target languages, with as much passion for learning as me.

Gainesville, Florida Area

Coordinated and developed the professional development workshop series, facilitated Preparing Future Faculty program, curated and prepared the biweekly professional development newsletter, sent to over 20,000 students, and created and launched new website,. Created content for the graduate school's professional development program, including promotional materials, website content, and social media. Collaborated with students on campus and off campus partners to identify and maintain positive relationships with units, faculty, staff, student groups, and more to develop professional development programming.Demonstrated success:Created, managed, and evaluated over 5 new, stakeholder-focused, semester-long training programsDeveloped and facilitated summer workshop series, "Managing Stress and Anxiety as a Graduate Student" including presenting workshops on time management and resource searches.Developed and launched modern website to improve access to curated content for ~18,000 stakeholdersIncreased training attendance by 346% in 6 months through novel promotional emails and social media

Gainesville, Florida Area

Leading EAP courses for adult learners. Employing apprehension reduction techniques into group discussions and individual conferences to promote long-term student growth and success.

Gainesville, Florida Area

Teaching ESL online with a Chinese Company to children ages 4-12 in groups of 4. Main pedagogical techniques required include TPR (Total Physical Response) and strong negotiation of meaning (immersion teaching). Platform includes engaging lessons developed with Cengage and National Geographic. Each lesson aims to increase student empowerment in the classroom.

Gainesville, Florida Area

Teaching formal and informal English to beginning and advanced learners of English from various language backgrounds. All four language skills taught: listening, speaking, reading, and writing to classes containing students from low/mid/high backgrounds in the level. Learning strategies and study skills coached during each lesson in addition to formal language learning. Promoting student agency and foreign language anxiety reduction in the classroom daily.

Gainesville, Florida Area

Providing customized action plans for ESL and French students focusing on increasing perceived self-efficacy, agency, and lowering foreign language anxiety. Truly providing a one of a kind tutoring experience that includes life, academic, and career coaching as well! Roster up to 20 students.

Gainesville, Florida Area

Planned, organized, executed, and evaluated five weekly foreign language classes of beginning French to students from a variety of backgrounds. Promoted immersion education and used a variety of modern teaching methods to address as many individual difference among learners as possible. To coincide with my dissertation topic, I included the teaching of self-regulation learning skills throughout the semester and openly discussed ways for students to develop more agency as learners in the foreign language classroom throughout the semester as well.

English Language Institute

Teaching beginner to low intermediate children in China English via TPR, Phonics, and a unique online platform. An innovative company with which to work!

English Language Institute

Teaching academic and informal English to international students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds at the English Language Institute at the University of Florida, accredited by the Commission on English Language Accreditation. Primary language skills taught include listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Specializing in high-beginning and low-intermediate level students and the instruction of self-regulation, anxiety reduction, and student agency skills and strategies.

Gainesville, Florida Area

Conducted research on the implicit and explicit acquisition of binomial expressions and to what extent they represent a psycholinguistic reality for native speakers of English as well as advanced English language learners. Duties included assisting in the development of research materials, administering multiple treatments of the experiment, analyzing cloud-based video recorded materials of learners during a grammaticality judgement task of frequent binomials for any and all examples of cognitive regulation such as private speech (silent, abbreviated and aloud) as well as manual gestures and cursor pacing. Finally, assistance was provided to the principal investigator during quantitative and qualitative analysis of final data as well as creation, revision, submission, and presentation of results.This competitive assistantship for first-generation college students was awarded by the University of Florida's McNair Scholar program to encourage continuing education beyond the undergraduate level.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Supported president and sales team by researching potential leads for new clients, tracking communication with clients, and prospected new clients via phone conversations. Supplemented calls to potential clients through dynamic e-mail applications. Demonstrated invaluable sales and customer service skills through the maintenance of high-profile client relations. Created, managed, and maintained Microsoft documents and spreadsheets with sensitive client information for the president. Prepared correspondences, arranged travel plans, and prioritized tasks to increase overall efficacy of the company.

Toledo, Ohio

Built relationships with a diverse, non-traditional, online associate degree seeking student population through motivation, support and encouragement. Supported students' academic, career, and personal success through weekly phone meetings and showed continued support with engaging follow-up e-mails. Aided students in setting reasonable goals and creating action plans to further their success in higher education.Guided students through problem and conflict resolution and helped students connect with online support services and other resources. Maintained accurate student records by projecting, assessing, and reporting on student achievements and deficits. Maintained satisfactory persistence rates, successful outcomes, scheduling goals, and referral goals. Contributed to a positive overall student experience potential for student success in higher education through academic advising, life coaching, and career planning.Successfully retained position as a success coach through three successive rounds of lay-offs (ending in a reduction of 90% of employees) by the company sans seniority due to unparalleled hard-work, extraordinary motivation and positive attitude, as well as the relentless success of student and company outcomes.Transitioned to role as admissions advisor in final round of lay-offs by company. Quickly and deftly mastered new skills of student acquisition and customer service via phone. Successfully communicated all necessary information about the online Masters degrees offered by the university and profoundly construed the importance of the emerging science of Big Data leading to higher numbers of enrollment than previous semesters.

Athens, Oh

Planned, organized, executed, and evaluated four weekly second language classes of French to beginning level undergraduate college students through immersion. Advised and promoted student self-regulation, responsibility, and agency individually outside of the classroom through multiple mediums such as e-mail and social media. Consistently used a variety of modern teaching strategies, multi-media presentations, and assessed student needs to result in unique, engaging, and unforgettable lessons resulting in higher student retention in future language classes and successful completion of language requirements as well. Later on, acted as a leader, mentor, and trainer to first year graduate students aiding in their professional development as modern, creative foreign language teachers with exceptional classroom management and student development skills.

Avignon Area, France

Interviewed and was rewarded position based on merit and personality characteristics to accompany undergraduates abroad. Provided direction, planned events focused on diversity, and counseled students for three months. Regularly resolved roommate conflicts, aided students in overcoming culture shock, and created a team-like atmosphere in order to lower anxiety while speaking in the target language and increase willingness to communicate with professors, host families, and native speakers.

Tours Area, France

Actively engaged new and beginning-level students between the ages of six and ten in learning the English language. Created unique and individualized resources to supplement lessons. Successfully acquired efficient teaching pedagogy without engaged mentors or classroom supervision. Met students at their level through the use of games, songs, and arts and crafts in an immersion environment resulting in effective second language acquisition. Balanced and coordinated six weekly lessons for over 200 students and competently assessed student performance in the target language following individual classroom objectives.

Dublin, Oh

Acquired extensive knowledge of car brand, features, and trouble-shooting techniques in two weeks. Provided extraordinary customer service to highly valued customers and regularly changed vocal registers and jargon per company standards to maintain brand image for BMW, Mini, and Rolls Royce. Regularly engaged in creative thinking, research, and critical analysis of available resources to answer customer questions to the fullest extent possible in a fast-paced call-center environment.

Athens, Ohio

Was awarded additional book-keeping and organizational responsibilities for the Resident Director due to outstanding past performance as a resident assistant. Continually updated social media platforms and aided the Resident Director in encouraging, counseling, and tracking the progress of students.

Counseled, mentored, and coached students to improve college experience and success, increase retention rate, maintain academic and personal excellence. Organized active, relevant, and creative educational programming for a diverse population of international and domestic student. promoting health, safety, citizenship, scholarship, and development. Exceeded expectations as a student leader, maintained a positive and public work-life balance, and provided outside resources for students regularly. Methodically planned triple the number of required programs each semester to encourage community among the undergraduate students. Demonstrated successful study and life strategies as a role model to 30 students each semester in a live-in environment.

Dublin, Oh

Consistently provided excellent customer service while performing cashier duties accurately and with unparalleled speed. Earned awards for both speed in aiding customers and being informed, polite, and agreeable on a daily basis. Quickly was promoted from base cashier duties to guest service desk duties in order to take advantage of quick and effective critical thinking, problem solving, and crisis prevention skills. Demonstrated extraordinary patience during fast-paced, high-pressure work times.Supervised and trained colleagues in the absence of a manager.Routinely invited back to same position during summer and winter breaks from higher education due to high efficiency at cash register and ability to provide unexpectedly outstanding guest service.

C.Phil Of Phd, Linguistics

Activities and Societies: American Association of Applied Linguistics, Florida Foreign Language Association, University of Florida.

Master Of Arts, French

Activities and Societies: Regular presenter of original research at local conferences: Ohio Foreign Language Association Ohio Valley.

Bachelor Of Arts, French, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: McNair Scholarship Program Award (1st Generation College Student) Conference of Ohio University Linguistics.