Robin Smart
Atlanta,GA
Summary
Energetic, empathetic, and highly motivated teacher with strong desire to improve the professional and personal success of students through language. 10+ years educating students ages 6 and up both virtually and in person. Focused on encouraging students with a wide range of learning abilities to be productive members of society by mastering effective language skills.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Online ESL Teacher
Cambly
04.2023 - Current
- Educate students from a variety of cultural backgrounds, spanning across 29 countries, teaching them basic as well as advanced business english skills
- Maintain consistent 100% positive student satisfaction rates
- Teach advanced business vocabulary and communication strategies through role plays, discussions, and simulations in high-pressure business situations
- Develop engaging lesson plans and activities to enhance English language learning for students
- Enhance student grammar and conversational skills by incorporating role play assignments
- Conduct simulated IELTS question sessions to familiarize students with test format and evaluate their performance
- Integrate technology into the curriculum when appropriate for enhanced learning opportunities
- Utilize various online tools to create a virtual classroom environment
- Teach lessons encompassing range of skill-building activities for speaking, writing, reading and listening
- Employ kinesthetic, visual and auditory approaches to make lessons interesting and interactive.
Volunteer Teacher
Volunteer Work - Atlanta, GA
01.2010 - Current
- Delivered 70-85 hours of virtual and in-person instruction monthly, teaching life coping skills to students aged 6+ in English and Mandarin
- Built and strengthened positive relationships with students
- Customized instruction by adapting existing lesson plans to accommodate varying student skill levels
- Implemented a combination of technology integration and hands-on learning strategies to elevate lesson plans and meet common core objectives.
Customer Service Desk
TIAA-CREF - Charlotte, NC
12.1999 - 01.2009
- Develop and train departmental employees on internal software systems
- Prepared custom training course materials and presentations for training
- Teach customers productivity methods to reduce frequent call backs
- Maintain composure and patience in face of difficult customer situations, applying de-escalation techniques and positive customer support.
Education
Bachelor of Arts Language Arts Education -
USILACS Florida
12.2022
Associates Occupational Studies - Computer Science and Industrial Electronics Technology
Technical Career Institutes New York, NY
01.2002
Skills
- Certified ESL Instructor
- Curriculum Implementation
- Lesson Planning
- Professional Development
Certification
- Certified TEFL Teacher, 120, 2024
- Certified TESOL Teacher, 120, 2017
Accomplishments
- Contributor - proofreading contributor with mention for published Learn Chinese manual on the Amazon top 100 list. Meticulously review content, identifying and correcting grammar, spelling, punctuation, and syntax errors. Ensure 500-page book content is free of typographical, grammatical, spelling, punctuation, syntax, formatting and other such errors.
- Spokesperson - major advertising campaign for Technical Career Institutes, New York. Advertisements ran from 1998 – 2001 on all NYC public transportation and in Daily News and NY Times.
- Instructor - local TECH CONNECT program for various high schools concentrating in refurbishing PC programs
- Mentor - high school “Women in IT” mentoring programs
Languages
- English, Native/ Bilingual
- Chinese (Mandarin), Limited
Timeline
Online ESL Teacher
Cambly
04.2023 - Current
Volunteer Teacher
Volunteer Work - Atlanta, GA
01.2010 - Current
Customer Service Desk
TIAA-CREF - Charlotte, NC
12.1999 - 01.2009
Bachelor of Arts Language Arts Education -
USILACS Florida
Associates Occupational Studies - Computer Science and Industrial Electronics Technology
Technical Career Institutes New York, NY
- Certified TEFL Teacher, 120, 2024
- Certified TESOL Teacher, 120, 2017
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