hala Al-Khomous, High School English Teacher

hala Al-Khomous

High School English Teacher

Al-Resala Bilingual School

Location
Kuwait - Al Farawaniyah
Education
Master's degree, Translaton
Experience
12 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :12 years, 1 Months

High School English Teacher at Al-Resala Bilingual School
  • Kuwait - Al Ahmadi
  • My current job since August 2016

- Teaching English - High School- Department of English.
- Teaching different English Language skills (reading - writing - speaking - listening) following and applying Common Core Curriculum and Standards to meet the international standards of education.
- Teaching students how to critically analyze literature and compose and edit different types of essays.
- Train students to improve and enhance their listening and speaking skills through applying different communication activities.
- Plan the lessons according to Common Core International Standards. The lesson plan shows how to meet the curriculum objectives.
- Deliver lessons and facilitate a class discussion among students to strengthen their communication and debating skills.
- Ensure lesson plan objectives comply with international standards
- Connecting with students using compassion and interpersonal skills.
- Use smartboard to display slideshows and enhance lessons with multimedia.
- Teaching in an interactive learning environment to promote differentiated instructions and activities according to the individual needs of the learners.
- Follow the flipped classroom model and have student-based classrooms in which students take the lead in the learning process.
- Apply different forms of formative and summative assessments to help the teacher assess the students’ achievement and performance in order to modify and change the methods of teaching and learning accordingly.
- Change the unit plans according to the results of the assessments.
- Participate in department staff meetings on weekly basis, usually under the leadership of the head of the department. Collaborate on teaching strategies and curriculum endorsement.
- Being an active member in the central domain of expertise: developing and renewing the school’s curriculum and assessing its quality and effectiveness to the highest of professional standards.
- Being an a co-chair and an active member in different committees (administrative- teaching and learning- curriculum) to get and maintain a CIS Membership to become a CIS Accredited School.

English Instructor at University of Jordan
  • Jordan - Amman
  • My current job since February 2014

Teaching students different types of courses such as professional writing (writing for business:like how to write a cv-resume-employments letter- complaint letter- invitation letter-proposal- job offer letter...etc)
Teaching students business English that is a course of using English in the working environment. Enabling the students to conduct professional interviews, getting involved in meetings, taking minutes of meeting, how to conduct a business discussion in English to reach to a bargain. learn the necessary vocabulary for business environment. learn various techniques of how to make an appointment and cancel another and writes different types of selling and purchasing letters using the appropriate English to put all that in a professional business style
Teaching students a course of scientific research and academic papers including writing a proposal, out-line, thesis, explaining how to do different types of questionnaires, populations, samples and how to use and document references.

English Instructor at Arab Open University
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • February 2013 to August 2014

Teaching students writing, speaking, listening and speaking skills making use of all possible aspects and prospects of educational modules in order to take the students to a higher level in English.

English Instructor at Gulf University for Science and Technology
  • Kuwait
  • September 2010 to June 2011

Teaching writing and oral skills in English

Education

Master's degree, Translaton
  • at Yarmouk University
  • January 2011

I wrote a thesis on how to render the emphasis in different types of figures of speech into Arabic in a group of Barak Obama's speeches depending on the Relevance Theory in Translation as a theoretical foundation for the research.

Specialties & Skills

Teaching
Teaching Writing
English
Writing
using different computer programes
swimming

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Jordanian Translators’ Association
  • Translator
  • January 2011

Training and Certifications

CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Langauges) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2017

Hobbies

  • Swimming