2018 - 2021
Online ESL TeacherDaDa - Coimbra, Portugal• Patiently and positively enabling children to communicate with confidence in one-to-one video lessons.
• Building relationships with children to encourage them to talk and learn in the natural organic manner that they gain their mother tongue.
• Emphasising confident communication as a lesson aim.
• Using stories, games and props to reinforce and practise language in a fun way.
2011 - 2018
Online ESL TeacherSelf-Employed - Coimbra, Portugal• Teaching English as a foreign language via online video lessons to children and adults of many levels and with many different aims
• Creating, adapting and using material to make lessons appropriate to the language aims of the students.
• Designing and building courseware incorporating games and activities using graphic design software.
• Creating spreadsheets to autocomplete board-game and flashcard templates from lists of key vocabulary