Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Affiliations
Languages
Accomplishments
Certification
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Yoko Kawai

Mamaroneck,NY

Summary

Highly-motivated person with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assistant Teacher

Doors International Nursary School
Sughinami Ward, Tokyo
01.2020 - 07.2021
  • Helped maintain a safe and orderly learning environment.
  • Organized instructional materials, bulletin boards, displays, and demonstrations.
  • Arranged age-appropriate activities to help children develop interests based on own experience as a mother.

Assistant Teacher

Sughinami School district
Sughinami Ward, Tokyo
04.2019 - 03.2021
  • Assisted elementary school classroom teacher in developing and implementing lesson plans.
  • Provided one-on-one help to struggling students during class.
  • Interacted positively with children to encourage development and involvement in activities, treating each child with dignity and respect.

English Teacher

Sumida community learning center
Sumida Ward, Tokyo
06.2007 - 03.2012
  • Taught adult and seniors travel English, Children's literature and grammar.
  • Created lesson plans, handouts, and other materials for teaching English grammar, reading comprehension, and creative writing skills.
  • Explored different approaches to help students improve their reading comprehension skills.

Service Staff Manager

Benesse Corporation
Tama , Tokyo
05.1997 - 04.2001
  • Maintained service by communicating our corespondent staff to the children who are mostly house wives at home working remotely from home.
  • Participated service/product development Project from staff management side.
  • Dealt with extremely sensitive cases that staff members are not able to handle such as our client member(correspondent student are committing to suicide and facing bury etc )

Education

Teaching Certificate - Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL)

Heart Step College
Tokyo
06-2005

Bachelor of Arts - Public Affairs and Public Policy Analysis

Keio University
Fujisawa, Kanagawa,Japan
03-1996

Skills

  • Curriculum Design
  • Special Education Support
  • Teaching strategies
  • Student and faculty communication
  • Lesson Planning
  • Document organization
  • Office Management
  • Research

Affiliations

  • Having Lived in various countries, such as Italy, Germany,Singapore and Japan (with supposes job reason), has cultural interests and acceptance.

Volunteer experience

-Docent at Asian Civilization Museum in SIngapore

-Served as a chair person at Rye Neck International Committee under the district's PTSA

-active volunteer at Harrison Library

Languages

Japanese
Native/ Bilingual
Italian (CILS LV3)
Professional
German
Limited
Korean
Elementary

Accomplishments

  • Being a proud and supportive mother of many theater award winner son.

Certification

  • JSHINE (Japan Shogakko Instructors of English)- teaching certificate for elementary school ESL teacher in Japan
  • Toy consultant
  • Japanese drivers License

Timeline

Assistant Teacher

Doors International Nursary School
01.2020 - 07.2021

Assistant Teacher

Sughinami School district
04.2019 - 03.2021

English Teacher

Sumida community learning center
06.2007 - 03.2012

Service Staff Manager

Benesse Corporation
05.1997 - 04.2001

Teaching Certificate - Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL)

Heart Step College

Bachelor of Arts - Public Affairs and Public Policy Analysis

Keio University
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