Thomas Greenaway
7 Gleeson Drive, Tel. 01926 775251
Warwick, Warwickshire,Mob. 07792 243111
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Summary- PhD student specialising in EAL, group work, and Intercultural Communication at Warwick University.
- Worked in Japan for two years as a peripatetic Assistant English Language Teacher.
- Multilingual and proactive team worker, currently organising an international academic conference in a team represented by 12 different nationalities.
Key Skills and Achievements
Effective Organisation and Administration
- Excellent ability to plan ahead and manage my time effectively, whilst working in Japan I organised and carried out a busy travel schedule, often working in five or six different schools each week.
- For every school trip I had to document my expenses and travel details for reimbursement.
- I planned lessons with limited resources to mixed ability students, each day working with a different school, with different students, resources, and with different teachers.
- At each different school I worked at I would have to adapt to working with a different team of teachers, and build working relationships quickly.
- Team-teaching included working in a foreign language with a Japanese teacher, delivering lessons to up to forty demanding children.
- As a teacher I initiated many English-themed events and activities, including a large DVD project (interviewing over eighty people) and a Murder Mystery.
- Self-funding my MSc and organising networking and social activities for members of the course.
- With wide experience of travelling abroad I have become very skilled at communicating with confidence with people who I have never met, and in foreign languages.
- Whilst in Japan I gave many presentations, training other English teachers in teaching skills and intercultural communication.
- I have had to improve my communicative competence through working with EAL students.
- My BA rigorously trained me to think critically and analytically culminating in my final-year dissertation, in which I achieved 77%
- In living abroad and analysing those experiences I have learnt to think critically and deeply about other cultures.
Personal Profile
From my first experience of teaching abroad I have been committed to English Language education, and since my experience in Japan I had become deeply interested in the role of culture in education and educational practice.
Employment History
Hokkaido Board of Education,English Language Teaching Assistant
Esashi,
Hokkaido,
Japan
2nd August 2010 to 1st August 2012
I taught English at a total of 18 schools in rural Japan to students of all ages. I also was engaged in teacher training for Japanese teachers of English.
L’Academie FrançaisEnglish Language Teaching Assistant
Cité Scolaire, Frantz Fanon
La Trinité
Martinique
30th September 2008 to 30th April 2009
I taught at a collège and a lycée to Francophone students aged between 14 and 21.
Qualifications and Academic History
October 2012 to September 2012
The University of Warwick
MSc in Intercultural Communication for Businesses and the Professions, Distinction
September 2006 to July 2010
Royal Holloway, University of London,
BA Honours in French and European Literature and Culture, 2:1
September 1999 until July 2006
Myton School, Warwick
4 A levels – English (A), History (A), French (C) and General Studies (A)
Level 4 Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 4
Other Interests
I enjoy raising money for charity, doing so for the 2011 Tsunami appeal in Japan. I also enjoy
cycling and running, journeying the length of Britain in 2008 and running the Warwick half
marathon in 2014 and raising over £2000 for charity.
References – Available on request