ESL teacher, Happy School Qingdao, China — March, 2018 - present Responsibilities and accomplishments: · Creating a 1-year curriculum for 10 groups. Class books covered: Super Safari 1,2,3, Super Minds 2, Smart English 1,2,3,4,5,6, Genius English 4,5,8 Monster Phonics, Genki Phonics. Syllabus included: target language, activities and games, chants, songs, action breaks, handcraft activities and projects, phonics and reading activities. · Giving high quality, self-tailored, entertaining 60-minute lessons for groups of 6-9 students aged 3-12. · Giving 3-4 demo lessons a week. 7 new groups have been formed as the result. · Creating interviews for more than 35 students participating in a special “Happy School’s Broadcasting Class” activity. Wrote and recorded a 3-minute interview (both the student’s part and the teacher’s part) for each student to practice at home before the actual interview in a studio. · Participating in numerous school’s outdoor activities (museum excursions, dental clinic excursion, playground competitions, etc) · Recording homework videos (recording target language covered in class) to be sent to parents via WeChat. · Creating reusable teaching materials together with the Teaching Assistants – flashcards, games, toys, posters. · Finding and creating own PPTs and images for different topics. · Working part time in a kindergarten (9 lessons/week, all age groups covered) following the kindergarten’s syllabus based on Hats on Top class book. · Working part time giving Phonics and Story classes in different private educational institutions and libraries. PROJECT MANAGER, Ultimate Guitar Kaliningrad, Russia — 2014-2017 Responsibilities and accomplishments: · Leading a team of 3 developers and 2 UX/UI designers working on multiple web/mobile projects for www.ultimate-guitar.com and www.guitarbackingtrack.com · Project roadmap building, planning and constant task decomposition for successful project deliveries and meeting the deadlines. · Community management and collaboration with the Support deportments of the above-mentioned web resources for solving all the issues and bugs in a timely and effective manner. · More than 40 successful releases on web and mobile platforms. · Improving the KPI for www.guitarbackingtrack.com by 20% · Successful implementation of new features and tools that millions of users are using on web and mobile versions of www.ultimate-guitar.com |