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IRYNA SAMCHUK
TESOL Certified Online Teacher: Teaching English as a Second Language

Sex: female
Age: 34 y.o.
Date of birth: 30/11/1991
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PROFILE
I am a highly passionate, self-motivated and creative English Teacher with extensive hands-on experience in online as well as offline teaching and a contagious burning desire to constantly expand my knowledge while thinking out of the box and standing out of the comfort zone.

SUMMARY:
Teacher, Translator and Writer
• TESOL Certificate (2016);
• App. 10 years of experience in Teaching (mostly online);
• Over 1 year of experience in Translation;
• 1 educational & 1 social project abroad (Germany);
• Autobiographical book in English (“Thirst for Life”);
• Active improvement of teaching skills (websites: Coursera, TED talks, Futurelearn)

SKILLS
LANGUAGE COMPETENCE
Mother tongue – Ukrainian
Second language – Russian
Foreign languages:
• English – fluently
• German – C1
• Polish – basic skills (University Certificate A2)
• Spanish – basic skills (university program as a third foreign language)
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
• Good public and presentation speaking skills gained due to the experience during internships at schools in Germany and Ukraine;
• Good communication skills obtained while working as a Management Assistant.
ORGANISATIONAL/ MANAGERIAL SKILLS
• Team skills achieved through the participation in the project “Imp@ct” (Karlsruhe, DE) and during an internship in “RYL!” (Stuttgart, DE);
• Managerial skills practiced and improved throughout the whole career in teaching
COMPUTER SKILLS
Competent with some Microsoft Office programs (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook), Zoom, TeamViewer, Time Doctor Lite, ClassIn
TEACHING SKILLS
1. Visited webinars:
• “How to help your students improve their listening skills?”
• “How to vary your lessons with online resources?”
• “How to help students learn new vocabulary?”
2. Completed course: “Teach English Now! Theories of Second Language Acquisition” (https://www.coursera.org/learn/language-theories)
3. Online Conference “Teaching for Success” (organized by British Council). Visited talks:
• “Remote teaching for success”
• “Stop, look, listen: peer observation”
• “Discussion forum: 21st century skills/core skills”

EXPERIENCE

ONLINE & OFFLINE TUTORING September 2014 – now
Offline: home office
Online (using Skype and Zoom)
Role: Private English Tutor
Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments:
• Guiding on-line & offline lessons for people of various language levels and age groups with the help of the best teaching resources and my contagious enthusiasm.
• Preparing schoolchildren for their final exams.
SKILLS: English language, Communication, Personal Development, Internet surfing, Skype/Zoom, Teaching Techniques/Methods.

Hochschwarzwald District High School
(Titisee-Neustadt, Germany)
October 2022 – December 2022
Role: German Teacher for refugees
Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments:
• Group instruction (face-to-face instruction);
• Teaching different age groups (6 to 16 years) and levels (A1-B1);
• Working with Ukrainian refugees and helping to solve children's problems at school
Company website: https://www.kreisgymnasium-hochschwarzwald.de/

"Speak Up" (Ukraine, Kyiv) November 2019 – March 2020
Role: English/German teacher
Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments:
• Individual and group lessons (face-to-face lessons);
• Lessons for different age groups (from 7 to 65 years) and levels (A1-C1);
Focus: English and German language, training/schooling/lessons, personnel development, lesson structure and lesson preparation.
Company website: https://speak-up.com.ua/

1. Language School “English-Natali” March 2016 – December 2016
(Online teaching)
2. “ABC School” (English for Corporate Communication)
Lviv, Ukraine (offline)
Role: English/German Tutor
Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments:
• Ensuring the effective and interactive learning process of each student and tracking their progress;
• Developing and improving myself as a professional in teaching while visiting webinars and exchanging creative ideas with other teachers;
• Inputting the database information showing my personal timetable and availability, writing the feedback for each student after classes.
SKILLS: English/German languages, Training/Education/Teaching, Personnel Development, Skype, Internet Surfing.
1. Company web site: http://www.english-natali.ru/
2. Company web site: http://www.abc-center.com.ua/

“BERKELEY ENGLISH” September 2015 – February 2016
Beijing, China (online – using Zoom)
Role: English Teacher (kids)
Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments:
• Having master-classes on how to organize and conduct lessons for the Chinese kids: preschool (3-4), kindergarten level (5-6), and primary level (7-13) with the help of BrainPOPs;
• Mastering my teaching methods and techniques, and broadening my cultural perspectives;
• Facilitating and encouraging learning of English using own creativity, passion and working skills.
SKILLS: English Language Training / Education, Staff Development, PowerPoint presentation, Zoom.
Company web site: http://www.berkeleyenglish.com/teacher.html
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Online English Schools April 2015 – August 2015
“Skyeng” & “Sherwood”
Russia; Ukraine
Role: English Teacher
Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments:
• Coaching the learning process of students from different countries and helping to improve the level of their English knowledge (via Skype);
• Visiting webinars, developing teaching methods, techniques, and working skills.
SKILLS: English language, Communication, Personnel Development, Internet Surfing, Teaching Structure.
Company web sites: “Skyeng” http://skyeng.ru/
“Sherwood” http://sherwood.org.ua/

AU-PAIR November 2014 – January 2015
Primstal, Saarland, Germany
Description: social project
Responsibilities:
• Looking after the child, organizing various activities together, plunging into a German culture, practicing as well as upgrading its language.
SKILLS: German language, Cultural and personal development, Communication, Problem solving, Discipline.
Company website: https://www.aupairworld.com/en

Kovel High School November 2013 – December 2013
Internship
Kovel, Volyn region, Ukraine
Role: English Teacher
Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments:
• Passive internship: visiting English and German lessons of other school teachers and learning different methods and techniques of working with pupils;
• Active internship: teaching English that combined developing language skills of pupils (of the age 10-17), trying to gain their confidence and respect, finding an individual approach to everyone using my own communicative skills.
SKILLS: English and German languages, Personal development, Teaching structure, Communication.
School web site: http://kovelgim.at.ua/

“Carl-Engler-Schule” June 2012 – July 2012
Karlsruhe, Germany
Description: social project
(via international organization “AIESEC”)
Role: Volunteer
Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments:
• Having workshops on team-building
• Presenting Ukrainian lifestyle, culture and traditions with the help of different visual displays and national attributes
• Organizing English literature lessons at school in a form of discussion and analysis
SKILLS: Communication, English and German languages, English Literature, Training / Teaching, Teamwork, Personal Development, Presentation.
School web site: http://www.ces.karlsruhe.de/hp/

EDUCATION

GLOBAL TESOL COLLEGE: ADVANCED TESOL CERTIFICATE, 2016
In addition to a specialization in Teaching Adults, the courses focused on both Pedagogy and Andragogy as well as Philosophy of Teaching, TESOL approaches and Methodology, Lesson Planning, Classroom Management, Student Assessment, Teaching Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary and Spelling, as well as strategies for using tools and technology in the classroom.

Specialty, degree
Year
University/ Institute
Translation
2009 – 2010
National Pedagogical Dragomanov University
Department of Foreign Languages
English Language and Literature, German Language, Translation
Bachelor

2010 – 2014
Ostroh Academy National University
Department of Foreign Languages
English Language and Literature, German Language
Master
2015 – 2016
National Ivan Franko University
Department of Foreign Languages

Kovel High School with expended foreign language study (English and German)
(1998 – 2009)

PUBLICATION
“The Informational Content of English Linguistic Cliches ‘the Expression of Gratitude’ ”
University scientific blog (http://naub.oa.edu.ua)
Link to the publication: http://naub.oa.edu.ua/2012/informatyvnist-anhlijskyh-movnyh-klishe-vyrazhennya-vdyachnosti/

MY STRENGTHS ARE:

• Teamwork, self-confidence and autonomy;
• Good communication skills;
• Spontaneous creativity as well as analytical thinking;
• Very dedicated and result-oriented, reliable and flexible;
• Willingness to learn new areas of responsibility;
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic.

MY FREE TIME ACTIVITIES:

• Reading foreign literature and books (philosophy, traveling, psychology);
• Yoga, meditations;
• Foreign language/culture study; Stretching.