Raquel Coelho Email & Phone Number

Lisbon, Pt

Lisbon, Portugal

Do you want to celebrate life and love in picturesque Portugal? Do you want a celebration that is authentically you? Then, I am your celebrant! I will craft a bespoke script that shines your light into the world in a memorable way.

Writer, editor, producer and host of the podcast Anxiety My Friend - Ansiedade Minha Amiga. A podcast about all things anxiety, love and learning, from a user's perspective.

Lisbon, Portugal

I am an eclectic and multipassionate educator who loves to co-design learning experiences. I have 20 years of experience in a wide range of schools around the world. I love using design thinking to solve problems collaboratively, building a better future right now.

Lisbon, Portugal

Educational designer and coordinator of a series of MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses) developed in the context of a government programme #InCoDe2030, which is an initiative that is integrated into public policies dedicated to improving digital skills in society.

United Arab Emirates

- Designed and delivered teacher training sessions about Seesaw (app), blended learning, EAL strategies, wellbeing for teachers, students, and the wider community.- EAL leader, sharing good practice, surveying teachers' attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours regarding language learning in our school, to inform future action plans. - Taught ICT to years 1 and 2.- Taught Mental Maths and Problem solving to years 1 and 2.- Taught Emiati Social Studies and Moral Education to years 1 and 2.

Porto Area, Portugal

Brunei Darussalam

Coaching primary English and Maths teachers to support them in improving learning and teaching in state schools. This involved designing and facilitating PD sessions (Department, Schoolwide, Cluster Group, and Countrywide), 1-to-1 coaching and liaison with stakeholders.Working alongside principals and senior management to develop Action Plans and Intervention Programmes.Observations of teachers and Heads of Department (English).

Brunei Darussalam

Central America

In August, my husband and I embarked on a 5-month travel adventure, with the aims of relaxing, reading, catching up with friends, meeting new friends along the way, and embracing the wonderful magic of having time. Initially, we had planned a year off, but Brunei Darussalam decided to design an incredible coaching programme to support teachers throughout the country, and I just had to be a part of it! So our year off got shortened to 5 months off.

Fujairah, Uae

Teaching all subjects to a year 3 class in a British International School

Fujairah, Uae

- Teaching ICT to all classes from Year 1 to Year 4, primary section of the school- Small group tutoring of Year 5 and 6 students, in preparation for SATS exams (English, Science & English)- Benchmarking - Reading tests to assess students' levels.

Guyana

- Literacy & Numeracy Advisor for the MoE, Guyana- Designed, developed and delivered in-service training courses- Teacher Trainer - Nursery, Primary, Secondary teachers- Fundraising- Project Management

Lisbon, Faro & Madeira Island

- Primary teacher of children with learning difficulties in 2002/2003- Sub primary teacher in 2003/2004- 3rd grade Primary teacher in 2004/2005- 1st grade teacher in 2005/2006- 1st grade teacher in 2006/2007- 2nd grade (same students) teacher in 2007/2008- 3rd grade (same students) teacher in 2008/2009

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Teacher Trainer for the Ministry of Education in Portugal - Working with teachers of English a Foreign LanguageThe courses focused on language learning and teaching strategies, as well as curriculum management.

Portugal, Several Locations

Oral Examiner for the Cambridge ESOL Young Learner exams.

Lisbon, Portugal

- Talking with the clients, in order to help improve their competency to communicate in English, mainly the productive skills: writing and speaking - Preparing practical exercises based on a grammar book and the news.

Lisbon, Portugal

- Teaching a grade 1 class all the Primary subjects, in a school in Lisbon.- While working in this school, I participated in a Comenius Seminar in Istambul and presented a proposal for a project I would like to work in. I met a group of very interesting teachers with who I wrote a Comenius project which was approved.

- Taught primary classes, ranging from 5 to 14 year old children- Coordinated the EFL section- Co-coordinated the ICT section

São Vicente, Portugal

- Teaching children which had some learning difficulties in a state school in Madeira Island. I designed an informal project through which those children visited the mainland.

- Taught English to children from the age of 5 to the age of 11 for 2 years during the weekends.- On the second year I was in charge of a preparation course for the Cambridge ESOL Young Learners Exams and the children took these exams. Although this was the first time the children did these exams, the grades were very good.

São Vicente, Portugal

Supply teacher covering all subjects: Portuguese, Maths, Topic, Arts and Crafts, Music, French, PE, etc.

Funchal, Portugal

- Taught English for the Hotel Industry, in a course for receptionists, financed by the Social European Fund.

with a colleague with several state primary schools. Our job was to help teachers use ICT in their classes, by: training them informally at their schools, working directly with their students, providing software, etc. I had to leave early, because I was called to teach in Madeira Island.

Intermittent translating

Master Of Arts (Ma), Tesol, Merit

My dissertation was about a practitioner inquiry using an exploratory practice approach designed to enhance learner autonomy.

Licentiate Degree, Primary Education

Activities and Societies: Co-founder of the student association

Certificate, Educational Sciences

Intensive tailor-made course entitled Train the Trainers, with the aim of training Primary English teacher trainers.

Participated, Theory And Development Of The Curriculum

Activities and Societies: I had to quit after a semester, because my work and class schedules were not compatible.

Erasmus, Primary Teaching & Fl Teaching

Activities and Societies: Designed a course based on TPR in order to teach Portuguese as a FLSócrates-Erasmus Programme

Certificate, Coaching

Levels 1 and 2 of Coaching Training Level 1 - Introduction, completed February 2019 Level 2 - Advanced skills, completed May 2019

Certificate, Psychology - Acceptance And Commitment Therapy, 93

Activities and Societies: FACT - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Brief Interventionhttps://app.psychwire.com/courses/woo5ec/about