Dalian University of Technology
City Institute yakobscott94@gmail.com Tel: 18342239507
Skype ID: jacobscott806
31 Tieshan Road West
KaiFaQu Development Zone
Dalian 116600

PERSONAL PROFILE
Bright, hard working, patient, sense of humor, open minded, tolerant, able to get on with people of other backgrounds and fairly well travelled. A confident communicator, have a good eye for detail, am self-motivated and a good team player.

WORK EXPERIENCE
Sept 2015- Oral English Teacher at Dalian University of Technology
Teach oral English to Major students in their freshman year. Also carry out overtime duties including business English and inter cultural communication. Responsible for planning lessons in line with the curriculum.
June – Sept 2015
Worked in various part-time and temporary positions in Derby, UK while seeking teaching in employment in China.
Moy Park: full-time factory operative in a food processing plant.
Walkabout Bar, Derby: employed as a glass collector at weekends in a buy late licensed bar.
EP Employment Agency: carried out various duties including bar work, traffic management and catering a various locations in Derbyshire area.
Sept 2010-Jan 2015 Oral English Teacher at Dalian Neusoft University of Information
Taught conversational English to college students at an IT based university.
Planned lessons in coordination with colleagues, prepared materials including printed handouts & PPTs and took about 11+ 2 hour lessons per week.
Gained experience of teacher training, teaching media studies as well as business English and
composition writing.
ESOL Tutor at St James Centre c/o Derby College Sept 2009
Taught English to speakers of English as a second language at a local community school.
Responsible for planning lessons, researching and preparing appropriate materials and executing lessons in accordance with a scheme of work based on the UK Adult Core Curriculum.
English Tutor at BKC International House Russia Sept 2007- Mar 2008:
Taught English to adult and teenage students from elementary to upper intermediate levels.
Used games and activities to encourage participation, often adapted textbook material and used own resources.
Kept a diary to monitor students’ progress, maintained discipline and marked homework and monitored tests.

SKILLS
Good IT/keyboard skills, detailed knowledge of software programs such as Word 2010. Good knowledge of smart board and PowerPoint.
Excellent communication skills & well developed organizational abilities - presentations, summaries, research.
Well-developed classroom management skills.
Wide ranging language skills: fluent in Russian and also excellent French, good German and excellent written comprehension of Portuguese. Basic knowledge of oral Chinese.

INTERESTS
Very keen interest in adapting and developing language learning activities and games common in ESOL to teaching of other modern languages. Learning Mandarin and also teaching myself basic computer programming.

EDUCATION & TRAINING
• CITY & GUILDS Preparing To Teach in Lifelong Learning Sector

(Level 3): Completed this course at Derby College. On placement at a

local ESOL centre one or two days a week teaching English to Entry

Level 2 class at a local learning centre.
• B1 DELF (Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Française): B1 proves sufficient level of French for entry to University. Gained in January 2009.
• CELTA (Certificate of English Language Teaching) Qualification: Solihull College June 2007
• B.A. Russian Studies (2:1): Birmingham University 2003-07 Credits also awarded for Russian Business & Intermediate Portuguese

Year abroad spent in St Petersburg Sept 2005-Mar 2006

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES

Wang Shan Shan
Vice Dean of English Faculty
Neusoft University of Information
Software Park Road
Dalian
mobile: 13074194599

Zhang Yin
English Department
Dalian University of Technology City Institute
大连理工大学城市学院
Tel: 18940965360