Curriculum Vitae

Daniel Hazen Stebbins Sharjah, UAE +971 50 464-5002 Education TESOL Diploma Candidate TEFL International, January 2012 – Present 240 hour online TESOL Diploma program

CELTA Higher Colleges of Technology Sharjah Women’s Campus Cambridge ESOL Level 5* Certificate in Teaching English to

Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA) (QCF) Leadership in English Teaching Dubai Men’s College, February 2010 – October 2010 120 hour online professional development course sponsored by

the US State Department & the Higher Colleges of Technology. http://www.hct.ac.ae/ Train the Trainer Certificate British Council Dubai, February 2008 – May 2008 On site teacher mentor course.

http://www.britishcouncil.org/me-uae.htm Teacher Training Certificate International House Barcelona, June 2008 On site teacher training course. http://www.ihes.com/bcn/ Business English Certificate TEFL International, Phuket Thailand, November 2007 60 hour distance learning course which is internationally certified by IATQUO Chief Examiner Alan Moller, PhD. http://www.teflcorp.com/affiliations.htm TESOL Certificate TEFL International, Phuket Thailand. Nov. 2003 – Dec. 2003 Four week, on site 120 hour intensive course which is certified by IATQUO Chief Examiner Alan Moller, Ph.D. http://www.teflcorp.com/affiliations.htm Diploma of Technology College of Geographic Sciences, Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia,

Canada. May 1992 – July 1992 Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems. http://www.cogs.ns.ca/Programs/Geomatics/AdvGeoSci_RS.asp Certificate of Technology College of Geographic Sciences, Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia,

Canada. September 1991 – April 1992 Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems. http://www.cogs.ns.ca/Programs/Geomatics/AdvGeoSci_RS.asp Bachelor of Arts University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge Alberta, Canada. January 1986 – May 1991 Environmental Planning and Resource Management. http://www.uleth.ca/

Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience Instructional Leadership Coordinator – Madares Al Ghad Project, http://www.moe.gov.ae/

Ministry of Education, the United Arab Emirates, August 2008 - Present After a restructuring of the administration of the Madares AL Ghad program I was given a new title which included the same responsibilities of the previous role, as Team Leader, as well as more school level administrative duties which were previously the responsibilities of the Principal Advisor position, which was eliminated under the new MAG administrative restructuring. New responsibilities include strategic planning, promoting school, parent, community relations, school accreditation, student extracurricular and co-curricular programs and remedial and elite student programs.

Team Leader – Madares Al Ghad Project, http://www.moe.gov.ae/

Ministry of Education, the United Arab Emirates, October 2007- July 2008 I was responsible for implementing a new educational reform pilot project for the Ministry of Education in the English Department of a boys’ secondary school in Sharjah, UAE. Duties included teacher training, teacher mentoring, teacher evaluation, professional development as well as implementing the English curriculum and assessment.

Seminar Director – TEFL International, Phuket Thailand.

August 2004- January2006, http://www.teflcourse.net/ As a Teacher Trainer my responsibilities included teaching and grading the grammar component of the TEFL certification program as well as giving lectures on teaching skills, English for Specific Purposes, examination preparation (IELTS, TOEFL, TOIEC & Cambridge ESOL exams: PET, KET, FCE), internet resources and teaching methodologies. We used Cutting Edge, Reward, New Headway and New Interchange series of ESL textbooks.

Visiting Professor - Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of South Korea.

January 2004 – June 2004, http://language.chonnam.ac.kr/ Responsibilities included teaching Introductory English for the mandatory freshman Global English program using the New Interchange curriculum. I also taught Business English for the graduate level Masters of Business Administration program which was a mandatory requirement to satisfy their graduation requirements. I was part of a team which wrote the curriculum for an upper intermediate level debating class using CNN for current events.

Head English Teacher - YBM ECC English Academy – Pohang, Republic of South Korea.

Nov. 2002 – Nov 2003. Responsibilities included teaching 30 hours, 6 days a week to children ranging from 5 years old to 18 years old. Classes included all levels and sizes including teaching free speaking classes and one on one classes. I also taught TOEIC and TOEFL preparation classes. As head teacher I was in charge or reviewing lesson plans and creating additional classroom materials. Although ECC provided proprietary teaching material I introduced New Headway, New Parade and New Interchange as supplementary resources.

References available upon request.