2004 - 2012 ESL Instructor in Cooperative Education Program
St. Gabriel Adult Learning Centre, Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board

• Planned and delivered daily lessons to foreign trained
professionals from CLB 5 to 12
• Carried out needs and formative assessments throughout the
course
• Designed own classroom material using newspapers,
magazines, movies and radio shows to teach vocabulary,
idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms
• Improved students’ communicative competence through
every day and work related tasks following the CLB guidelines
• Implemented different teaching techniques and meaningful
classroom activities that engaged students in real negotiation
of meaning
• Prepared students for the Test of English for International
Communication (TOEIC) and for The Test of English as a
Foreign Language (TOEFL)
• Administered the official TOEIC test (pencil version)
• Instructed job interview skills and conducted mock job
interviews
• Planned and implemented lessons to improve students'
telephone skills
• Attended staff meetings and professional development
activities offered by the board

2003 - 2004 ESL Instructor
Meadowvale Centre, Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board

• Taught a multilevel conversation class with continuous
enrollment
• Planned activities that involved discussions, role playing and
presentations
1994- 1995 Spanish Teaching Assistant
University of Richmond, Virginia, USA

• Developed lesson plans and taught Advanced Spanish
Writing skills to university students
• Assessed students at the end of semester oral exam
• Lived for a year at the International House on campus