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The role involves speaking to, interviewing and assessing IELTS Students online via Zoom. Additional tasks include taking notes, passing on that notation, and discussing with colleagues to determine how the student should best progress.

Involves answering surveys on a variety of topical issues, offering opinions and useful data on everything from government public policy to advertising campaigns, ensuring an informed approach is taken post-public consultation.

Tasks involved creating professional phonetic sound recordings to test AI voice recognition in apps and analysing and rating the data of results from queries made on a mapping program.

Worked with Vietnamese teaching assistants to deliver English lessons to kindergarten and primary school aged children, filling in for a teacher away on leave. Responsibilities included:- Using the internal computer system at the language centre to find and produce materials for lessons.- Assessing student behaviour and grading their language learning abilities.- Interacting with students via games and other informal activities.

Role involved teaching English to all ages, both in classes and in one-on-one individual conversational assessments.- Taught and tested using Cambridge assessments such as PET, KET & IELTS.- Classes for all ages from toddlers to adult learners with lessons catered to the age and level of the learner.- Both followed text book suggestions and developed own teaching materials and methods.- Wrote up lesson plans and performed prior planning for classes.- Took part in award… Show more Role involved teaching English to all ages, both in classes and in one-on-one individual conversational assessments.- Taught and tested using Cambridge assessments such as PET, KET & IELTS.- Classes for all ages from toddlers to adult learners with lessons catered to the age and level of the learner.- Both followed text book suggestions and developed own teaching materials and methods.- Wrote up lesson plans and performed prior planning for classes.- Took part in award ceremonies, handing out certificates. Show less

A temporary role which involved teaching children and teenagers at three sites in smaller towns in rural Vietnam.

Taught at a new English centre in a small town to mainly primary and secondary aged students.- Involved teaching independently without Vietnamese teaching assistants.- Performed hosting duties with microphones for games and challenges the students took part in collectively.- Managed students of varying abilities, aiding them in their English development.

The job involved teaching a summer course organised by an English centre in coordination with a rural primary school.- Taught quite large class sizes with varied ages and abilities.- Arranged and delivered various activities and games.- Hosted a talent show on stage at the end of the course.

Taught at a number of locations part of or affiliated with the English centre as part of an ESL internship.- Taught at the main centre in the city centre; a college and at a new centre in a remote town.- Helped to establish the town's English centre, assessing entrants.- Taught a full range of students from kindergarteners to middle aged adults.- Wrote full lesson plans and sourced materials despite limitations of the remote location.

A Telemarketing position in a call centre involving direct customer contact. A friendly disposition and phone voice was offered, providing detailed information in an accessible way, handling a variety of responses professionally.

Proofread various pieces of academic work from international students up to and including a dissertation, turning around the work to be up to a high standard of written English.

Working in six different classes supporting Key Stage 1 primary school teachers in years 1 and 2, tasks involved: listening to children read and evaluating them with associated paper work, aiding pupils in their work in subjects such as English and Maths; discussing the matter at hand, encouraging the child and engaging them. This was achieved through practical demonstration, taking them through the process and positively reinforcing their efforts. Other tasks and roles undertaken included… Show more Working in six different classes supporting Key Stage 1 primary school teachers in years 1 and 2, tasks involved: listening to children read and evaluating them with associated paper work, aiding pupils in their work in subjects such as English and Maths; discussing the matter at hand, encouraging the child and engaging them. This was achieved through practical demonstration, taking them through the process and positively reinforcing their efforts. Other tasks and roles undertaken included reading stories to a class as a whole, monitored group reading, maintaining an orderly classroom through meriting and authoritative measures, playground and lunchtime monitoring duties, supervising children with special needs, attending school trips and swimming classes, basic admin, organisational & manual tasks as well as arts & craft. At the school I worked with numerous new to English pupils that had arrived in the UK recently as refugees and migrants, aiding their phonics, reading & writing. Show less