Rebecca Dobson Email & Phone Number

Fukuoka, Japan

Tenjin

I am part of the Global Solutions team, formed in 2017 as part of a new group venture, which aims to support foreigners living and working in Japan. As well as supporting foreigners through jobmatching, we also work with local web design companies to provide translations in multiple languages, mostly for tourism with some technical.I am one of the main English translators and help to coordinate and recruit translators for other languages.As part of a young and still developing project, I have also been involved in a range of duties in the interest of promoting and exceling our business venture, such as creating the website for our project, making flyers and talking at job fairs and seminars.Notable skills developed in my current role include:- Japanese to English translation- Wordpress / website creation and management - SEO and content marketing- Logo and vector design (photoshop)- Coaching and presentingNotable Projects and Achievements:- Three years of translation experience from Japanese to English, mainly for famous tourist attractions (including the websites of a major airport and famous castle)- Teaching Business English workshops for group staff, and for ground staff workers for the Rugby World Cup- Creating websites and logos for third party clients

Fukuoka City, Japan

At Amity I have enjoyed implementing new teaching techniques such as computer software based learning, as well as building on my knowledge of TPR and Child Centered Learning, successfully combining my new trainings with my former knowledge to create even better lessons for my students.I have been successful in helping the company to meet monetary goals through communicating recommended materials and extra classes to customers.I have been able to deepen my understanding and practice of Japanese business etiquette and customer service in an all Japanese staff environment.Following a lesson demonstration at the company's follow-up training I was highlighted by trainers as an exemplary teacher, and following on from this I was made 'Native Teacher Area Assistant' - taking on the added role of mentor and representative for the company's native teachers in the Kyushu area.

Nagasaki City, Japan

At Playday I was able to build further on my teaching skills, encouraged by my boss and mentor who shared theory books on teaching. I discovered and began to implement teaching concepts such as Child Centered Learning, TPR, and Emotional Positioning, which changed the way I was teaching, and allowed to me understand how to tailor my approach for different age groups. I became experienced teaching not only school age children, but toddlers and adults.Small class sizes and an array of resources and textbooks gave me so much room to exercise my creativity, and I worked under pressure to learn the frameworks of various textbooks and teaching styles in time for classes and kept a dynamic schedule, working various shift patterns at school base as well as commuting two mornings per week to teach original lesson plans at a private elementary school. Along with my fellow staff I took part in the organization and execution of events and worked to keep up the quality and freshness of the school and lesson contents, regularly taking time to create new props and school decorations by hand.

Nagasaki, Japan

The JET Programme allowed me to dip my toe in to the world of teaching for the first time, while living and working in a culture so vastly different from my own, as the only English speaker in a Japanese staffroom, exposing me to a variety of pressures and challenges, but ultimately becoming the working experience which would not only make me more flexible, tolerant, patient and better equip to handle the unknown, but helped to solidify my present day values which center around international relations.Working at around 10 different schools over five years gave me the opportunity to team teach with many different teachers, sometimes having them as a guide and at other times using the internet and my wits to come uo with lesson ideas on the spot, training me to work under pressure and feel comfortable with making mistakes as I deepened my understanding of what it means to be a good teacher. Over the years, I became preoccupied with the absence of phonics education in Japanese public education, and vowed to learn more about it. I began to work with Japanese teachers to incorporate phonics in to lessons at my own schools, and in 2015, I was called upon by the Board of Education to move to a new elementary school where I taught Japanese teachers how about phonics, and later demonstrated a phonics lesson for around 100 teachers in Nagasaki city.In 2014, I became ALT Advisor, helping new ALTs with their translation to life in Japan, visiting their schools to watch lessons and give advice and support.I have been an enthusiastic member of my school communities outside of the classroom, eating lunch and playing sports with students, cheering them on at sporting events, training students for speech contests and Culture Festival performances.

United Kingdom

Mananaged time effectively to handle a large volume of inbound calls from customers relating to product queries, order placement, delivery scheduling, returns and complaints.Adept at problem solving and conflict resolution, often times acting as a middle man between customers, carriers and suppliers, working to fix problems and offer customers the best solution. Taking on a managerial role after my first year, I became skilled in dealing with escalated calls, solving more complex problems for customers, often having to think outside of the box and look outside of protocol to maintain great customer relations. Responsible for giving instructions to front line advisors, requiring an in-depth and up-to-date knowledge of business processes.