Kristina Asan Email & Phone Number

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Structure a classroom environment to target all foundational skills that need to be developed.• Intervention plans assessed continuously to see growth of each student.• Monitor all progress by taking anecdotal notes of students daily.• Map scores reflect intervention plans to assist in student’s progress.• Develop lesson plans that are aligned with the targets set on the PYP program.• Creating lessons that are innovative in teaching students the targeted goals that are set.• Use of Direct Improvement and Reflection time.• Designing continuous provision plans that target areas of skills in the classroom environment.• Strong focus on personalized learning instruction for students in curriculum areas.• Use of Tech to guide instructional lessons. • Developing specific Summative and formative assessments to assess attainment of students knowledge.• Able to lead and develop teaching practices by observing, modelling and team teaching in order to enhance the classroom environment.• Able to manage and facilitate effective and purposeful transitions between lessons.• Use of next step to enhance student’s progress and ensure optimal growth.

Abu Dhabi, Uae

• Structured lesson plans that incorporated bi-lingual teaching, centering on literacy, English, Mathematics and Science.• Use of content-specific information, through literacy skills of reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and presenting to acquire and retain content knowledge and content-specific abilities.• Ongoing Professional Development and KPIs based on new and up-to-date research, emerging technologies for the classrooms and new curriculum resources.• Planned a range of individual and group activities, including letter recognition, numbers and an awareness of science and nature.\• Instructed extra-curricular activity (Drama) – school plays, role play, singing and dancing.• Use of the gradual release strategy, model-apply-practice to ensure the learning of all students.• Use e-sis software as a form of communication to inform faculty and parents about student’s progress.• Established well supported teacher and parent communications through meetings, student’s information books and or eBooks, and phone conversations.• Organized a range of individual and group activities, including role play, movement, dance, singing, games, arts and crafts activities. • Creating and implementing lesson plans based on group differentiation strategy.• IB PYP instruction strategy used to teach students necessary life skills and develop a shared common ground of understating/communication, which promotes equality and responsibility to the world we live in.• Incorporated phonics material to help promote students awareness to letter and sound recognition.• Planning indoor and outdoor activities aligned with student learning outcomes to promote a positive and safe learning environment.• Strategically assessed students based on the new school model; hands on learning and specific instructional methods consisting of lecture, group discussion, role play simulations and multimedia presentations.

Dubai, Uae

• Working with mixed age groups in a classroom setting.• Planned a range of individual and group activities, including letter recognition, numbers and an awareness of science and nature. • Organized a range of individual and group activities, including role play, movement, dance, singing, games, arts and crafts activities. • Extensive observation of children to develop lesson plans to support a student’s ability.• Incorporated phonics material to help promote students awareness to letter and sound recognition• Established well supported teacher and parent communications through meetings, student’s information book, and phone conversations.• IB PYP instruction was implemented to teach students necessary life skills and develop a shared common ground of understating/communication, which promotes equality and responsibility to the world we live in.• Structured lesson plans that incorporated bi-lingual teaching centering on literacy and mathematics

Abu Dhabi, Uae

• Worked in a Montessori school where students ranged from ages 3-5 yrs. old.• Involved in the afterschool program where I tutored student’s in different areas of the curriculum. • Took part in summer program where I developed lesson plans set up for fun exciting summer themes and projects.

• Taught a class consisting of 20 children with a diversity of cultural and language backgrounds.• Used bloom’s taxonomy to incorporate higher-order thinking questions to challenge students.• Used multiple intelligences to create lesson plans that centered on a student’s strength, to promote self-confidence in other subject areas. • Encouraged character education promoting kindness, respect, trust, self-confidence etc. in lesson plans to nurture and succeed in developing a student’s life skills.• School’s environment centered on both education as well as religious importance.• Incorporated the awareness of world events that caught the interest of students in all categories of the curriculum.• Instructed Turkish students to learn the English language through teaching the curriculum.• Monitored after school program and tutored various students in all grade levels.• Taught recreational activities including, soccer, poetry writing, etc.

• Head Teacher of 2yrs9mths-3yrs6mths. 1-15 ratio of students with assistant.• In charge of implementing the days schedule consisting of paper work and activities.• Assessed the children based on their performance.• Constant interaction with parents on their children’s performance.• Constructs daily routine of the days schedule.• Implementing projects that focus on letters.• Phonics is used to teach the children letter recognition.• Use of auditory and perceptual learning in classroom.• 20 hours workshop experience

• Pre-School Teacher in charge of 1–15 ratio of students. Consisting of 2-5 year old children.• Designed curriculum for future teachers to follow. • Full authority over the curriculum.• Administering weekly lesson plans.• Constructed class seating and arranging the rooms within the school.• Monitored the infants as well as the 2 to 4 year olds.• Preparing children for kindergarten work.