Middle School French Teacher
Resume:
Abigail K. Kaplan
Littleton, CO 80126
**********@*******.***
WORK EXPERIENCE
French Teacher, Ranch View Middle School, July 2023-present Teach beginning French to seventh-graders. Instruct comprehensible input lessons focused on reading and speaking. Create engaging cultural lessons. Focus on helping students reach proficiency. Collaborate with colleagues in PLC; contribute positively to school culture.
International Student Coordinator, Trinity-Pawling School, Aug. 2021-June 2022 Taught five levels of Mandarin Chinese. Assisted with recruiting and retaining international students. Outreached to overseas parents, planned activities; enhanced student experience. Coached C team for boys' soccer.
Chinese and French Teacher, STEM Highlands Ranch, Aug. 2019-May 2021 Taught three sections of middle school Chinese and three French through grammar and conversation. Helped students gain appreciation of foreign cultures with diverse activities.
English, Chinese and French Teacher, Highlands Ranch High School, Aug. 2015- May 2019
Instructed French and Mandarin Chinese to 9-12 students. Created engaging, project- based lessons. Worked on students’ speaking, listening, writing. Assessed students and tracked data. Created world literature curriculum for juniors and seniors. Taught diverse books.
Marketing Copywriter, Strategic Programs, Inc., May-July 2014 Assisted Marketing Director in redesigning and rewriting marketing materials. Checked all print and web content for spelling and grammatical correctness. Presented ideas in marketing meetings.
Chinese Telephone Interviewer, Strategic Programs, Inc., Aug. 2013-Aug. 2014 Made calls to overseas Chinese employees to gauge their level of job satisfaction at multinational companies. Conducted exit interviews in Chinese. Entered all data into online database.
English and Chinese Teacher, Hinkley High School, Aug. 2005-May 2014 Taught IB English, ELA classes, and journalism. Recruited students and supervised school newspaper production and layout. Taught Chinese conversation and writing to 9-12 students. Prepared students for rigorous IB test each spring.
English Language Teacher, New America School, Sept. 2004-July 2005 1
Taught English and art to freshmen and sophomores. Created project-based lessons to build grammar and vocabulary retention. Recruited and outreached to families with calls, letters and written flyers.
Software Sales Representative, Rosetta Stone, May 2003-June 2004 Demonstrated Rosetta Stone foreign language software to potential clients. Sold an average of three programs per day. Counted and kept inventory. Maintained cleanliness of kiosk.
EDUCATION
Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO, Sept. 2005-August 2007 Studied teaching and education methods. Received Professional Teacher’s License, August 2007.
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Aug. 1998-May 2000 Master’s in Journalism with a focus on news and feature writing. Awarded McClatchy Prize for in-depth magazine reporting. Regularly wrote stories for the university newspaper, The Daily Californian.
Amherst College, Amherst, MA, Aug. 1990-May 1994 Received Bachelor’s of Arts in Asian Studies. Graduated magna cum laude. Studied Mandarin language in Beijing, China, fall 1992.
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