Sharadha Ramanathan Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

CONTENT DEVELOPER:MARKETING COLLATERALS:Content for brochures, flyers, pamphlets, banners, corporate presentations and websites.ACADEMIC BOOK SERIES:English, Value Education, Computer Science and Environmental Studies (EVS).• Teaching and learning resources to develop LSRW (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) skills.• Instructor guides – teacher manuals, lesson plans, individual & group activities and supplementary exercises.• Student guides – flash cards, tutorials, practice exercises, online references and other supplementary learning resources.• Assessments (formative and summative) – question banks, workbooks and practice papers.CONTENT EDITOR:Responsible for technical editing, language editing, copyediting and proofreading.• Edited the book “Quality Management in Higher Education” (Sage Publications India Private Limited, 2016) written by Prof. Marmar Mukhopadhyay, Chairman, ETMA (Educational Technology and Management Academy), Gurgaon, Haryana.• Edited the novel “11 hours” (2018) a national best-selling romantic thriller & “In Loving Memory” (2021) by best-selling author Daniel Paul Singh.• Edited academic journals for premier institutes.EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES:Program Designer and Trainer for an NGO-sponsored Rural Education Project in Tamil Nadu This project aimed at inculcating the "Spoken English" culture by improving English communication skills among the children and teachers in the village school and showcasing their learning by organizing an annual Spoken English Exhibition (the first of its kind in the district).Teaching MS Office and Spoken English through Experiential Learning Was involved in an educational development program with an NGO in developing the curriculum, course outline, storyboarding content for learning modules, assessments, instructor manuals and student guides for teaching MS office and Spoken English to children through experiential learning.

Bangalore

• Responsible for planning, creating and editing content for academic books for English, Value Education, Computer Science and EVS.• Developing teaching and learning resources – to develop LSRW (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) skills for digital and print media.• Developing assessments (formative and summative) – question banks, workbooks and practice papers.• Key resource in promoting the Computer Series by conducting workshops for teachers.

LANGUAGE & SOFT SKILLS DEVELOPMENTCommunicative English, Business English and IELTS (both Spoken and Written) based on proven teaching-learning strategies.TRAINING EXPERTISE:• Conducting 1-1 classes, group classes and mega sessions.• Using pedagogical and andragogical practices to handle children and adults of different nationalities and language levels (beginner, intermediate and advanced).• Customized lesson plans based on the learner’s needs.• Experienced in handling special training needs – interview skills, public speaking as well as participating in debates and discussions.TRAINING DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT RESPONSIBILITIES:• Conduct Training Needs Analysis to design learning interventions and desired outcomes.• Design interactive and engaging learner experiences to improve language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing), proficiency and fluency.• Develop training materials with detailed and well-designed lesson plans, presentations, activities, practice worksheets and assessments applying standard design principles.• Encourage learners’ interactions (individual, pair and group) and simulate role-plays based on common situations in personal and professional life • Develop confidence in language usage and comprehension – sentence formation, grammar and pronunciation. • Assess learners’ progress throughout the training programme by closely monitoring performance and handling error corrections and feedback.• Conduct assessments and collate learners’ feedback at the end of the training to measure tangible results and make improvements in the training materials at the end of every cycle.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Conducted customized English sessions (Spoken and Written English) for adults and children on a 1-1 basis.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Conducted 1-1 Communicative English (Spoken and Written) for students and adults wherein sessions were customized to the learning needs and learning styles of the students.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Responsible for conducting English lessons in live mega sessions online to multiple batches of Grade 4 to Grade 10 students of all boards.

Singapore

Conducted 1-1 sessions to improve Academic English and Language Skills (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening). Lesson plans were customized to the learning needs of the students.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Conducted 1-1 sessions and group sessions for adults and children to teach Spoken English - Communicative English and Business English.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Vetted questions for VARC (Verbal and Reading Comprehension) Assessments

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Conducted Communicative and Business English classes (Spoken and Written) to children, college students and adults for Anagha Info Services Pvt. Ltd. - A franchisee of Aptech Ltd.

Tamil Nadu, India

Course designer, Curriculum developer and Trainer for Spoken English for children and parents.Conducted Spoken English Exhibition - 2 years in a row - the first of its kind in Pulivalam, Thiruvarur, Tamil Nadu.

India

WEB DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT:• Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - Material Research Centre, Department of Physics, nanoelectronics Group and Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CENSE)• Indiancivils.com – An online IAS Academy for UPSC examinations.• Allbankspo.com – An online coaching centre for bank examinations.• Texas Instruments (JK Quiz), Bangalore.ANIMATION PROJECTS:• Developed a 50-minute multimedia (animation) presentation for the launch of the book “Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems” by UNESCO Publications, Paris in the Frankfurt Book Fair (2004). • Developed a walkthrough presentation to teach ToolBook II Instructor online at Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL), Tiruchirappalli.

Postgraduate, Instructional Design

Certified Instructional Design Specialist (CIDC), Certified Digital Content Writer (CDCW), Articulate Storyline training, Adobe Captivate.

M.Sc (Tech), Information Systems