Deborah Foote Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago Il

Performs administrative duties for Middle School Teachers and Administrators. Responsibilities include screening calls; managing calendars; meeting and event arrangements; preparing reports and financial data; training and supervising other support staff; and customer relations. Employs strong computer skills, flexibility, excellent interpersonal skills, project coordination experience, and the ability to work well with all levels of faculty, staff, and administration. Uses sensitivity with personal and confidential matters. Also maintains relationships with Middle School students and parents as primary contact for academic and school issues and concerns. Must respond to a variety of individuals with immediate and long-term demands.

Courses taught include: Composition and Rhetoric II, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Latin American Art, Music, and Literature, Spanish I, Spanish II, Spanish III, and Western Humanities. Courses created and taught include: Latin American Women in the Arts and The Simpsons as Satirical Authors. Also organized and chaperoned summer study abroad experience to Guadalajara, Mexico.

Scheduling all languages classes each semester, hiring instructors and staffing of all language classes, mentoring and resolving various issues for language adjunct faculty, responding to and resolving language students’ concerns, reviewing and maintaining divisional Scantron student evaluations, and developing new language courses and curricula.• Created and helped continuously maintained Columbia College’s on-line Spanish Placement Exam and coordinated semester hard copy Placement Exams for French and Italian classes

Ma, Romance Languages And Literatures (Spanish)

Bachelor'S Degree, Spanish Language And Literature