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Oversee corporate-wide security awareness programs including security communications and instructor-led and computer-based trainings across multiple businesses.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Develop and expand online course offerings at PCC by working with other faculty to develop courses and learning outcomes using appropriate media, tools, learning activities, and assessments.

Southeast Center - Portland Oregon

Serve as the Vice-Chair of PCC's Learning Assessment Council and serves on the Arts & Letters Discipline Subject Area Committee (DSAC), General Education and Assessment Subcommittee (GEARS) and deeply engaged in PCC’s Yes to Student Success initiatives (YESS).Planned, taught, and assessed all 5 levels of reading, writing, communication courses.

Portland English Language Academy, Portland Oregon

Extensively trained and certified to carry out writing and speaking assessments for the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). Experience in analyzing language with highly detailed assessment criteria. Familiar with and proficient in implementing stringent quality control procedures in standardized testing.

Portland, Oregon

Visiting Instructor in prestigious Academic English Skills (AES) program for international students; taught courses in IELTS preparation and academic communication skills.

Portland, Oregon

• Supported Academic Director by drafting reports and instructional budget, ordering instructional materials, completing all registration procedures, scheduling room and teacher-class assignments, and developing ILPs for.
• Coordinated and conducted monthly in-service trainings on topics ranging from best practices in assessment and strategies for teaching language skills. Increased staff engagement (8 instructors out of 18) in presenting.
• Designed high-quality center-specific orientation program for new instructors to supplement corporate onboarding procedures with locally relevant resources..
• Implemented the Vocabulary Enrichment, Reading & Writing, and Speaking and Structure Practice curriculum launches (2012-2013) and leveraged corporate funding to support instructional staff during curricular adoption.
• Collaborated directly with instructors to identify and solve issues related to administrative duties, assessment procedures, and maintaining ELS's rigorous educational standards.
• Wrote curriculum to expand course offerings including Grammar for Writing, Dictionary Skills, and Collocations Extra.

Portland, Oregon

Taught all levels of students in all programs offered at ELS. Chaperoned youth camps from Japan and Panama. Worked with VIP students for 1-to-1 lessons in business English.

Istanbul, Turkey

Instructional Responsibilities - taught all levels of learners in group settings as well as private lessons. Taught General English, Business English, IELTS exam preparation and young learners courses. Worked for many of Turkey's top companies including Sabanci, Hurriyet, Efes, and Turk Telekom.Teacher's Representative Duties: facilitated dialogue between.

Istanbul, Turlkey

Masters In Education, Teaching English To Speakers Of Other Languages

Bachelor Of Science, Geography