Education and Work Experience Timeline

  • BA Fine Art and Dip. Psych

    Bachelor Fine Art, Painting & Diploma of Psychology.Monash, Melbourne and Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara
  • Arts Access

    Support worker for Arts Access, Melbourne. On Arts day south and west I supported artists offering art and drama activities to students with physical and intellectual disabilities . On the Footscray House Music Project I assisted in offering music activities at a residential care centre for clients with long-term psychological health disabilities
  • Arts Education

    Disability Development and Support Officer, North Melbourne TAFE-Co Facilitator of Visual Art Group. I Assisted clients with access to community arts venues including the National Gallery of Victoria, Malthouse Theatre and Collingwood children’s farm. In addition I assisting clients in identifying and achieving individual learning goals.
  • CELTA, Certificate English Language Teaching Adults

    CELTA, Certificate English Language Teaching Adults. English as an Additional Dialect, Flying Teachers, Zurich.
  • Grad Dip. Art Therapy

    Post Graduate Diploma of Art Therapy La Trobe, Melbourne
  • Supercomm Languages, Zurich

    Supercomm Languages, Zurich. I specialised in teaching Cambridge BEC Preliminary, Vantage and Advanced Exams and designed courses to meet the specific needs of clients businesses. As part of this job I Worked as a mobile English teacher visiting companies including Allianze Insurance, UBSand Mitsubishi.
  • Multicultural Woman's Art Group, Switzerland

    In this group I ran a 4 week painting course to introduce a group of foreign woman living in Switzerland.
  • CATS Certificate of Advanced Teaching Skills

    CATS, Certificate of Advanced Teaching Skills,English as an Additional DialectHull’s School/ International House, Zurich
  • Access Sprachschule

    Access Sprachschule, Sempach. At this school I was the primary exam specialist teaching Advanced, First Certificate and BEC Cambridge English Exams. I also Offered non exam based courses ranging from beginners to advanced. Lastly I facitated a course for a young women with Asberger’s Syndrome. My job involved programming, lesson planning and developing learning materials. Lastly one of my responsibilities was maintaining the school library.
  • Castles English Language Institute

    Teaching Advanced Cambridge Exam
  • Grad Dip. Practicum 1

    Practicum 1, Public Independent School. In this practicum I taught year 8-12 Visual Art and facilitatied mentor group.
  • Grad dip. Practicum 2

    Private all boys schoolTeacher of years 7,9 and 10.In this practicum I taught Visual Art and year 8 literacy Curriculum Enrichment
  • Grad Dip Education

    Graduate Diploma of Education, The University of Western Australia. Major: Visual Art & Minor: Special Education
  • KAPLAN International Language School

    KAPLAN International Language School, Perth Here I taught English as an Additional Dialect to groups of 10-15 mixed nationality students. I ran Specialist courses in Business English- and was job club coordinator, assisting international students to find Australian jobs.
  • Curtin University Centre for English Language: Present employer

    Curtin University Centre for English Language Centre (CELC) provides courses for students with a rance of abilities. I have been mostly with the Academic Bridging Course, which prepares students for mainstream university. The course is structured around academic skills training. These include: researching, giving presentations and writing essays. For this course I have developed several materials includunging an informative lecture on Australian Culture for students who are new to the country.
  • Loftus Community Art Centre

    I programmed and taught watercolour short courses to beginning and intermediate students. This job involvved preparing and cleaning up art space as well as organizing and promoting course
  • Studying Ma Sec. Teaching PT. Graduation 2013.

    Masters of Secondary Teaching, The University of Western Australia