Jennifer Chard Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

Project Director for the Multilingual Literacy SIFE Screener (MLS) at the Second Language Acquisition Laboratory. The MLS is a semi-adaptive computerized assessment in 16 languages administered to newcomer immigrant students with interrupted schooling upon their enrollment to New York State public schools.

Greater New York City Area

Responsible for personnel and budget management, administering grant funds, and coordinating project set-up and close-out with key stakeholders including project director, funders, the Graduate Center, and the not-for-profit educational corporation that administers CUNY grants.

Greater New York City Area

New York City Metropolitan Area

Greater New York City Area

Develop and conduct recurring 6-hour professional development seminars for preschool teachers and paraprofessionals who are completing bilingual certification.Topics Taught:Advanced English as a New Language MethodologyWorking with or as an Interpreter or TranslatorCultural and Linguistic Diversity

Greater New York City Area

Work on a team to transition in-person courses into courses appropriate for engaging online learning. Major platforms used include BlackBoard and VoiceThread.

Greater New York City Area

Course Taught: Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching (hybrid format, master's level)

Bronx, Ny

Courses taught:Bilingualism (hybrid and traditional in-person format, undergraduate level)Introduction to Linguistics (traditional in-person format, undergraduate level)

Utica, New York

Planned World Refugee Day event in 2011 and 2012. Responsible for light public relations work and website maintenance. And, I was their Volunteer of the Year in 2007!

Omiya, Saitama, Japan

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics

Dissertation Project: Mandarin Assessment in Chinese-English Bilingual Preschoolers. School assessments in the U.S. are ubiquitously.

Bachelor'S Degree, Linguistics