Karen Saad

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E-mail: adzg8h@r.postjobfree.com or adzg8h@r.postjobfree.com Highlights

Self-motivated, results-oriented and organized. Dependable, highly motivated individual.

A quick learner and dedicated team-player.

8 years experience instructing in various sections, 8 years tutoring & working on individual basis to target specific weaknesses.

Work Experience

September 2007 – 2013 University of Balamand

English instructor

• Teach intensive courses 001- 002- 003

• Coordinator’s assistant

• Coordinate with other instructors and professors to discuss and ensure the efficiency of the adopted learning methods, books and to discuss students’ progress.

• Prepare quizzes and tests to evaluate students’ progress in all skills

• Attending workshops and seminars

• Cooperative teacher for MA students majoring in English Language. I tutor, help, observe, and assess their performance.

October 2010 – June 2011 Institute Freddy Atallah

English instructor

• Teach an English course for the class of “BT1 Informatique”

• Coordinate with the coordinator to discuss the efficiency of the adopted learning methods and discuss students’ progress with the coordinator and the students’ parents.

• Prepare quizzes and tests to evaluate students’ progress September 2006 – June 2007 International School Al-Koura English Teacher

• Teach English for Grade 4 (forth elementary students).

• Teach English as a Second Language for non- native speakers of the language.

• Coordinate with sections’ directors and Head of English Department to ensure the efficiency of adapted learning strategies and methods.

• Meet with parents to discuss students’ progress.

• Attending workshop: “Effective Methods Adopted by Teachers in a Multi- intelligent Classroom”

October 2005 – March 2006 Centre Universitaire de Technologie English Teacher

• Teach English Business course for third year Business students.

• Coordinate with Head of English Department to ensure the efficiency of adapted learning strategies and discuss students’ progress. Spring 2005 – Spring 2007 University of Balamand

Graduate assistant

• Transcribe reports

• Make interviews

• Translate documents

• Monitor students’ progress and assessment in a Computer Assistant Learning Language (CALL) course that is offered for intensive students. 22 March, 2003 – 4 May, 2004 Lady Balamand High School Student Work Experience

• Interview teachers and coordinates of different grades

• Observe grade 3 and grade 7

• Discuss students’ weaknesses

October 2001 – June 2003

Private Tutoring

• Taught and prepared a non-native speaker 26 years old for TOFEL exam. Skills included: English comprehension and fluency, English listening and speaking skills.

• Taught English, math, chemistry, and physics for a fourth grader learning in a public school and prepared her for her brevet exam which she passed successfully.

• Taught English for Grade 9 student learning in a private school and prepared him for his final exam.

• Taught and prepared a non-native speaker 18 years old for university entrance exam. Skills included: English comprehension and fluency, English listening and speaking skills.

Workshops

Participated in “Innovations in ELT Education” workshop at the University of Balamand in cooperation with Cambridge University Press and Global ELT Solutions

(Spring 2012)

Presentation title: “Blogs: Beneficial tools in an EFL classroom” Publications

Published a paper with the collaboration of a colleague in the online journal Teaching English with Technology. The Title is Blogs as a Way to Enhance EFL Reading Classes in a Lebanese Tertiary Institution, and it can be accessed here http://tewtjournal.org/issues/volume-2015/volume-2015-issue-1/ Lecture

• Perform a speech at University of Balamand titled: Feedback in Intensive English Levels during Oral Work at Balamand University (Spring 2007) Fall 2007 – Spring 2011 University of Balamand

Attended Workshops

• Teaching & assessing the writing process

• Teaching reading

• Integrating ICT in ELT (interactive white boards)

• Using debate in your language classes

• Assessing writing when it is a vehicle of assessment

• Participating in the webinar series “Shaping the Way We Teach English” sponsored by the Office of English Language Programs, Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State

• Participated in workshop titled: Helping Learners in an EAP Context Education

University of Oregon (funded by the American Embassy): completed with distinction a five-week online teaching training course in “The Landscape of English Language Teaching” (May 2014)

University of Oregon (funded by the American Embassy): completed a ten-week online teacher training course in “Building Teaching Skills through the Interactive Web” (Fall 2011)

University of Balamand: Master Degree in English Language Teaching – ELT

(Spring 2005- Spring 2007)

Lebanese University: B.A in English Literature – Linguistics (2000- 2004) Lebanese Baccalaureates: Khalil Salim High School – Lebanon (1997-2000) Personal Information

• Computer Literacy, Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, and Power Point.

• Languages: Arabic and English speaking: Fluently written, read and spoken; French: Understand spoken speech but unable to speak or write fluently.

• Hobbies and interests include: Swimming, music, reading and traveling. References

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