CV
Name; Istafanous William Istafanous Derias
E-mail; **********@*******.***
Mobile ; 002***********
Date of birth;4th March 1972
Place of birth; Luxor, Egypt
Education history
Primary stage: 1983
Preparatory stage: 1986
Secondary stage: 1989
University stage: 1989 till 1993 -faculty of Education- Assuit University (teaching English language department)
Year of graduation ;May 1993
Scholarship to UMBC (University of Maryland,Baltimore County) in 1999,a training course of new methods of teaching English as a second language
2007 Diploma in Egyptology,Ancient Egyptian History
2015: A training course called TWT which is Teaching With Technology in The New Technology Center by Egyptian Ministry of Education. It is about using new technology in teaching English as a second language also using a lot of new educational platforms in teaching.
Career History
1993-1997 English teacher in preparatory stage
1997-untill now English teacher in secondary stage
2000 More duties added to me besides teaching English for the secondary stage after coming back from the scholarship, duties like doing exams and evaluation to students to join universities,also training teachers about modern methods of teaching English through video conferences and direct meetings and trainings, finally I was chosen to help in curriculum development.
2005-2007: Diploma in Egyptology; studying tour-guiding and Ancient Egyptian religion, civilization and sightseeing. Then worked, besides teaching, as a part time job in tour guiding and organizing tours specially in Upper Egypt for different nationality tourists like US and UK citizens.
2016 until now…. After many tests and interviews by American experts in teaching besides the counselor of English language in the Egyptian ministry of Education, I was qualified to work in Stem Schools in Egypt (STEM … S for Science, T for Technology, E for Engineering and M for Mathematics), Egyptian schools run by American experts using American syllabus. Now I am the head of English department in Luxor STEM school, ( 11 branches in Egypt )
Social State; married with 2 daughters and a boy; wife (bachelor degree in science 2001 and doing Masters now) Sandy 15 years, Sarah 12 years and Shenouda 7 years. (all children are studying in New Ramses College)