My Profile

ESL teacher

2019- Al Aqsa International School- Istanbul

December 2019 to Current

• Work with students from different grades who have difficulties in learning (English Extra Course).

• Use of smart board and OHP

• Use of varied methods that fit the different profiles and types of learners

• Work with Overactive students

• Make additional efforts to provide psychological support to the students who are assigned in the course; most of them don’t accept the idea that their level of English is different than the rest of the students.

• Provide thorough profile reports for each student in the course (type of learner/behavior/weaknesses/strengths’/best ways to engage them...). These reports were helpful for both the classroom teachers and the parents.

• Teach Grammar and Literature to 9th Grade using the American curriculum (My Perspectives, McGraw-Hill).

• Work on Agriculture Project (Life Skills)

• Help organizing the “English Book Fair” Project

ESL instructor (Evening classes)

2019- Dilko Language School

November 2019 to Current

• Plan lessons using TTT, PPP and Guided Discovery methods through techniques that are both rigorous and creative.

• Use of OHP and Google slide to present every lesson.

• Write a daily self-reflection about the lessons and take some class videos to self-reflect on it.

• Cooperate with colleagues (because there is always two English instructors for each class).

• Focus on monitoring and try divers’ techniques of feedback. Also working on improving lesson planning and class performance.

Receptionist

Agency for the Development of National Heritage and Cultural Promotion, Kairouan

May 2010 to September 2010

Informed and advised tourists on how to organise their visit, offering information on tour guides, hotels, restaurants, and artisanal shops. 

· Sold tickets to tourists wanting to visit the historical monuments of Kairouan.

Freelance Translator

freeelance

August 2014 to Current

Resonance FM documentary – What Does a Revolution Sound Like? Worked with two British journalists over a period of 6 months to translate interviews and songs for a documentary on new Tunisian music. Worked efficiently and with great cultural sensitivity. Assisted on the documentary itself with simultaneous translation.

· BA Thesis on Tunisian Rap Working to translate numerous rap songs for an American student currently researching a thesis on Tunisian rap. Work with meticulous attention to detail, giving side-by-side translations as well as detailed explanations of idiomatic language. Advise the student on potential directions for the project. 

. kannouta  working with a stuff to produce a local documentary about illegal immigrantion to Europe in Tunisia , responsible of translating and encrypting idiomatic local Tunisian dialect . 

. Life Skills working on the translation and encrypting of a 21 minutes lenght documentary depicting the initiative of promoting and including various life skills within the national education program . The initiative was a collaboration between the Tunisian Ministry of Education ,  UNICEF organisation and the Ministry of health .

Tutor of Classical Arabic / Tunisian Dialect

American Association of Tunsi Nurturers and Potential Nurturers

August 2012 to Current

Using the 'Growing Participator Approach' by Dr Greg Thomson  and working to tutor a number of visiting foreigners in the Tunisian Dialect and Classical Arabic, some consistently over a several year period, and others short term.

• Work with a 5-phase method , moving from teaching the basics of grammar and vocabulary, to encouraging advanced students to use their own skills of communication.

• Combine traditional and innovative teaching methods, sensitively and dynamically adapting to suit each student. For example, I combine grammar exercises and reading tasks with narrating cartoons, watching TV shows, or taking students on excursions to cafes. 

• Have received exceptionally positive feedback and recommendations

Teacher of English

Kallaline Private School , Tunisia

May 2014 to Current

Combining fun and instructional methods and working  with 4th Grade class (10 years old kids) assisting workshops and teaching singing and guitar.

'jujutsu club' is a fun idea that i ve started with the kids ; teaching them Jujutsu throught simple and fun drills .