KATE BOBBY

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Kew Gardens, NY 11415

646-***-****/acu0lq@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATIONAL TRAINING

EDITORIAL TRAINING

Hunter College: MA, Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), K-12; GPA: 3.979 (Kappa Delta Pi member)

New York University: BA, Journalism/Minor, Spanish; GPA: 3.3/Dean’s List

ADDITIONAL TRAINING & SKILLS

Language Skills: Proficient in Spanish (writing, speaking, and reading); Mandarin (reading, writing, and speaking, novice level)

Computer Skills: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint; SMART Board, WordPress, Moodle;

Additional Education: Up-to-date Best Plus certification; Level 1, Mandarin, Fast Learning Chinese

New York, NY (Summer 2014); Intermediate Conversation, Spanish,

Queen Sofia Institute (Summer 2011)

ESOL TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I .1199 SEIU Funds

New York, NY, 9/10/15-Present

Provide high-level beginners with a contextualized curriculum for home health aide. Key goal: strengthen communicative competency for workplace and better, future employment opportunities. Responsibilities include: daily attendance-taking and lesson planning; help students plan and design a themed poster and presentation for an annual health fair; correct homework; maintain student files; track student progress; work to maintain retention.

II.The CUNY Research Foundation:

A Cuny Language Intensive Program (CLIP) Hostos Community College

New York, NY; Summer and Fall 2016

Scheduled to teach two classes of Level One English Language Learners (ELLs).

B. The SPELL Program, Hunter College

New York, NY;1/22/14- Present

Teach ESL beginners for this Saturday adult education program of the CUNY Research Foundation. Responsibilities include: administering the Best Plus; conducting needs analyses; augmenting and/or creating contextualized curricula to help meet students’ educational goals; maintaining student portfolios; conducting exit interviews and skills assessment profiles; teaching basic computer skills (e-mail, document creation, web-based research); correcting student work; guiding the students in group and project-based work; completing up to 15 hours of professional development.

C: Adult Learning Center, Lehman College

The Bronx, NY; 10/2013-6/15/2015 * Stopped working there because I night class I’m taking conflicts with working there.

Teach ESL beginners for this Saturday adult education program of the CUNY Research Foundation. Responsibilities include: administering the Best Plus; conducting needs analyses; augmenting and/or creating contextualized curricula to help meet students’ educational goals; maintaining student portfolios; conducting exit interviews and skills assessment profiles; teaching basic computer skills (e-mail, document creation, web-based research); correcting student work; guiding the students in group and project-based work; completing up to 15 hours of professional development.

D. The Center for Immigrant and Education Training, La Guardia Community College

Long Island City, NY; 9/2012-6/2013

Taught English at the low-intermediate level to immigrant parents. Responsibilities included: adapting and augmenting context-based,

CUNY-approved curricula in response to needs-analyses & initial assessments; using technology (the SMART Board, a computer lab, a listening lab) to heighten student engagement; guiding differentiated cooperative learning groups through completing project-based assignments; develop course outline; participate in annual program fairs; attend up to 15 hours of professional development. Additionally, helped students prepare for parent-teacher conferences and other meetings. This involved delivering targeted instruction in context-related vocabulary; guiding creation /rehearsal of role play scenarios and showing students how to access relevant data from the DOE website.

II. Long Island Business Institute

NY, NY; February 2012-to Present (subbing)

Teach ESL certificate and for-credit classes for all proficiency levels. Teach classes in: academic reading and writing, speaking and listening skills, grammar, and interpersonal communications. Additional responsibilities include: crafting curricula based on assigned texts; designing periodic assessments to gauge progress; tutoring those in need of extra help; maintaining portfolios of student work; completing up to 30 hours of professional development workshops; using Excel to maintain student attendance records and grades; attend staff and departmental meetings; participate in campus-related student-retention initiatives; submit student assessment reports to Guidance Department; teach students how to research topics using the Internet and creating a bibliography, participate in leading ESL Club activities.

III. American Language Communication Center (ALCC)

NY, NY; 2005-Present * (now as a sub)

Teach ESL students of varying levels of proficiency at this accredited institution. Have worked here, on and off, as a full-time and part-time instructor. Also, work as a substitute during the summer season.

FREELANCE FOR:

Newsday, The New York Post, The Bergen Record (a New Jersey daily newspaper), The North Jersey Herald & News (a daily newspaper), The Queens Times-Ledger, The New York Resident, Show Business Weekly, City Limits, and The Independent Film & Video Monthly.

EDITORIAL STAFF EXPERIENCE

I. Times-Ledger

Full-time Arts Editor

Queens, NY; 1998-2000

Promoted from freelance writer to full-time reporter, then editor to create the arts section for this publisher of weekly newspapers. As arts editor, duties included:

Planning and assigning all content;

Assigning stories to freelance writers, photographers and interns;

Helping design and format the arts section using Quark Xpress and Adobe Photoshop;

Fact-checking and copyediting;

Compiling a weekly events calendar;

Writing various features as well my own weekly film review column;

Assisting with the creation of content for various special sections.

II. North Jersey Newspapers

Full-time Managing Editor

Bergen County, NJ; 1993-1997

Promoted from the job of freelance writer to a managerial position at this publisher of weekly newspapers. Duties included:

Filling in as a senior-level editor for a supervisor on vacation;

Managing team of writers and photographers;

Editing and copyediting using Quark Xpress;

Assisting the production team every week with re-sizing, headlining, cutting and adding copy as needed.

Writing backup copy and my own weekly film review column;

Writing advertorial copy for special promotional sections;

Selecting and paring down ‘Letters to the Editor’;

Representing the company at community events.

EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE

I. Barron’s Educational Series

Freelance Manuscript Reviewer

Hauppauge, NY; 2006-Present

Reviewed and made detailed recommendations for updated editions of Barron’s texts on the: TOEIC test, the TOEFL bit Test, and the IELTS test. Also worked on Barron’s English Grammar Made Easy as well as various texts about improving pronunciation.

Additionally, wrote reader reports with suggestions for the publisher’s Graphics Classics series. Worked on adaptations of: Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights; Gulliver’s Travels, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Hamlet; Macbeth; and Great Expectations.

II. Book Links

Educational Publishing Intern

Astoria, NY; 2007-2008

Worked with this curricula publisher on a California state textbook as well as a textbook pitch.

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