LAURA DORIA

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Professional Summary

I’m a qualified teacher with an extensive experience in teaching young students and mature students. I taught Italian language and culture to a diverse selection of students from undergraduates to professionals at all levels and abilities including directors, students, managers and post-graduates.

Professional Experience

LOTE Teacher (Italian), North Lakes State College, QLD, Australia Jan 2015 – Jun 2015

Responsibilities

Prepare material and teach Italian Language and Culture to Year 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 students.

History in Italian for high achiever students (Italian Immersion program)

North Lakes State College, QLD, Australia

Responsibilities

Prepare material and teach History in Italian to Year 8 high achiever students.

LOTE Teacher (Italian), North Lakes State College, QLD, Australia Jun 2014 – Nov 2014

Responsibilities

Prepare material and teach Italian Language and Culture to Year 6 and Year 8 students.

History in Year 9 and Year 10, North Lakes State College, QLD, Australia June 2014 – Nov 2014

Responsibilities

Prepare material and teach History to Year 9 to Year 10 students.

LOTE Teacher (Italian), Peregian Beach College, QLD, Australia Jan 2014 – Jun 2014

Responsibilities

Prepare material and teach Italian Language and Culture, from Prep to Year 8 students.

History & Geography Teacher, Peregian Beach College, QLD, Australia Jan 2014 – Jun 2014

Responsibilities

Prepare material and teach History and Geography from Year 7 to Year 10 students.

Pastoral Care Teacher, Peregian Beach College, Peregian Beach, QLD Jan 2014 – Jun 2014

Responsibilities

Prepare material and teach Pastoral Care to Year 7 students.

TAFE Italian Tutor, Bracken Ridge Campus, QLD, Australia Jun 2012 – Mar 2014

Responsibilities

Prepare material and teach Italian Language to adult students.

Develop teaching materials that are relevant and useable by mature students.

Founder of Mornington Peninsula Language and Culture Studies Jun 2011 – Jun 2012

Mornington, VIC, Australia

Responsibilities

Organise language lessons for kids, teenagers and adults.

Offer lessons in Italian, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, and Japanese with native speaker teachers.

Prepare material and teach Italian Language and Culture to kids, teenagers and adults.

Organise cultural events.

Organise language holidays overseas.

Promote foreign languages and cultures in the Melbourne area.

Head of LOTE, KooWeeRup Secondary College, VIC, Australia Jul 2011 – Sep 2011

Responsibilities

Prepare material and teach Italian Language and Culture to Year 7/8 students.

Member of eLearning team.

Supervise other language teachers.

Discuss and improve aspects of the curriculum.

Organise Italian events and excursions.

Order and buy language materials and resources.

Take part in meetings for the Heads of Departments.

TAFE Italian tutor, Chisholm Institute, Frankston / Berwick, VIC, Australia May 2010 – May 2011

Responsibilities

Prepare material and teach Italian Language to adult students.

Develop teaching materials that are relevant and useable by mature students.

LOTE Teacher (Italian), KooWeeRup Secondary College, VIC, Australia Jul 2010 – Jun 2011

Responsibilities

Prepare material and teach Italian Language and Culture to Year 7/8 students.

Member of eLearning team.

Tutor of Advanced Italian, U3A, Mornington, VIC, Australia Jan 2010 – Sep 2012

Responsibilities

Prepare material and teach Advanced Italian Language and Culture to adults.

Develop teaching materials that are relevant and useable by mature students.

Teacher of Italian Studies, Istituto Comprensivo di Brusasco, Turin, Italy 2008 – 2009

Responsibilities

Prepare material and teach History, Geography and Italian Language and Culture as classes and group workshops.

Mark, assess and consult with students to maximise learning engagement and performance.

Develop teaching support materials using multimedia sources, web based info and external events.

Provide input to decisions on faculty educational material, administrative and organisational proceedings.

Appointed Special Needs secondary helper.

Achievements

Proposed and appointed as specialist teacher for Italian Studies to foreign students – this included lessons to foreign language children and School-sponsored free lessons to foreign language adults.

Identified, researched and instigated a class entry for a Poetry competition with the result of achieving 2nd place nationwide out of 400 entries.

Italian Studies Teacher, Istituto Comprensivo di Castiglione Torinese, Turin, Italy 2007 – 2008

Responsibilities

Covered the same responsibilities as at Brusasco (above)

Appointed Special Needs primary helper.

Achievements

Proposed & initiated a prose challenge for a Secondary School class to discuss unique aspects of their regional environment for recitation in the Regina Margherita Hospital Children’s ward, receiving Recognition from the “Associazione Italiana Contro I Tumori Infantili”.

Maternity leave, Turin, Italy 2005 – 2007

Italian Lecturer, Inlingua Torino SRL, Corso Matteotti 40, Torino 2000 – 2005

Taught Italian Studies to a diverse selection of students from undergraduates to professionals at all levels and abilities including directors, students, managers and post-graduates.

Appointed as Italian Tutor for MBA students at Ferrero Spa.

Italian Teacher 1998 – 2000

State sponsored teacher of Italian to the African immigrant community. Sponsoring Entity: Comune di Carignano.

Teacher of Basic Italian to Kenyan adults and children at Mambrui Malindi, Kenya.

Education

Queensland Teacher Registration Card number 876157 (Full Registration).

Diploma of Teaching at Deakin University in History and SOSE, Melbourne, VIC (2013).

Master’s Degree in Italian Literature and Philosophy (“Lettere e Filosofia”) in 2004 from the University of Turin, Italy.

Numerous courses in Educational Techniques, including:

Teaching Social Behavior (“Tecniche di insegnamento e delle abilità sociali”).

Distributed Leadership (“La Leadership Distributiva”).

Learning Difficulties (Dyslexia) (“I Disturbi Specifici dell’Apprendimento”).

Multimedia Course in Italian as a Second Language (“Corso Multimediale di italiano seconda lingua”)

Additional Information.

References

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