Sarah Thyssen

Así es Sarah

Hello madrid!

I have just moved to this wonderful city and look forward to a new chapter in my life.

Besides a lot of teaching experience, my strongest qualities as a teacher are probably enthusiasm, patience and the ability to make students comfortable and excite...

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Freeance teacher barcelona and madrid.
Academic english teacher at pompeu fabra university.
Skype / online lessons to prepare for the speaking/ writing exam for ielts, toefl and cfe/cae

Business english one to one and group lessons

Group ielts preparation classes.


Freelance teacher, cairo, egypt
Developed an english immersion course for a relocation company 2014 – 2015
English for social integration into the expat community with practical lessons

New cambridge, bangkok, thailand 2006 – 2011
(maternity leave may-sep 2009)
Teaching: ielts preparation courses from band 4 to 8 and corporate english
Materials development: ielts writing 36hr course and speakwrite 50hr course
Testing: co-wrote ‘nctest’ – an entry exam for many bangkok universities

International house, dubai, u. A. E.
Senior teacher 2005 – 2006
Operations: timetabling, set up course procedures and teachers' handbook, payroll,
Created server, recruited new staff, delegated admin to fulltime staff, ran teacher meetings
Responsible for networking, sales and proposals, held initial client meetings
Courses/quality: developed esp material/ intensive business skills courses, level testing,
Certificates, monitored tests/reports, handled student complaints, observations/feedback
Teacher development: induction training, set up buddy system and ran teacher workshops
Business english training: shangri-la hotel, hsbc, nbd, emirate airlines, jumeirah hotels

Speakwell - consultores de linguas, lisbon, portugal 2001 – 2005
Assistant director 2004 – 2005
Business development: networking, implemented telesales strategy,
Sales presentations, negotiated contracts, costing courses, needs analysis,
Level testing and class grouping, timetabling, wrote programmes,
Database upkeep, financial reports
Teacher development: induction training, ran idea sharing workshops
Course development: 'english for hotel industry' and e(ffective) learning (microsoft)


Summer school director (400students) summers 2004 + 2005
St. Julian's international school, carcavelos, portugal
Carlucci american international school, lisbon, portugal (2004)
Speakwell porto manager 2003 – 2004
Set up porto branch: publicity, sales presentations, contracts, recruitment

Business english trainer & junior efl teacher (material development) 2001 – 2005
One to one/groups/e(ffective) learning/intensive/business skills/bec exams at
Microsoft, danone, ericsson, pfizer, pricewaterhouse, sheraton, bmw, etc.
Young learner, ket, pet exam preparations, curricular and extra curricular at
International schools - integration, portuguese private and public schools

Starwood hotels and resorts, customer contact centre, cork, ireland 1999 – 2001
New hire reservation and sales supervisor, induction & systems training

Celebrated café & foods, maplewood, new jersey, u. S. A 1997 – 1998
Hostess, receptionist, house function catering

Estudios

My best study was from the university of life. I have lived and worked in the middle east, south east asia, china, south africa, egypt and now here in spain. Having integrated into diverse cultures with different languages, i have been both the student and the teacher. Living and learning :-)

1994 – 1998
Economics & german degree
University college cork
Ireland

1998 - 2000
Travel & tourism management diploma
College of commerce
Cork, ireland

2001
Celta teaching certificate
International house
Lisbon, portugal

Idiomas

I speak english (native without accent), dutch and portuguese fluently.
Conversational spanish, french, german (now rusty arabic and thai)