Thanamalar IGCSE English Teacher
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My name is Thanamalar. I am 48 years old. I am presently residing in Chennai, India. I was born and brought up in Singapore. I completed my education in Singapore and pursued my tertiary education in Australia. I have a B App Sc (Disability Studies) from Flinders University of SA. I started my career as a special educator in 1994. However in the last 20 years I have explored teaching in both mainstream and special education in Singapore, Australia and India,
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Over the past four years, I have been teaching English as First and Second Language at a Cambridge international school in Chennai and ever since have been upgrading, equipping myself with the knowledge and fundamentals of teaching FLE and ESL English.

I have completed certification courses in English, thus now I am a certified TEFL and Business English Trainer. I am also a Speaking Examiner with Cambridge.

I have a flair in teaching creative writing focusing on narrative and descriptive styles of writings and my students have enjoyed and succeeded in producing good writings.

I am currently running Spoken Language and Creative Writing classes for teens as well as Reading programme for primary, middle school and lower secondary students via Zoom.

I like to meet people, learn as well as share learning experiences. There is so much of opportunities out there that are worth exploring and I am hoping to travel round the world to fulfill my aspirations.

Subjects

  • TEFL Beginner-Expert

  • Special Education for Special needs Grade 2-Grade 7

  • Spoken English for kids Beginner-Intermediate

  • English (IGCSE)

  • English & Personalilty Development Beginner-Intermediate

Experience

  • English Teacher (Jul, 2018–Present) at Hindustan international School Chennai
    I teach FLE to Grade 7 to 10 Students. Als,o I am the Dept Head so I mentor my faculties .
    I am part of the school Editorial Team and assist with the content writing of all articless and press meet write ups for the school. I do enjoy writing scripts for events or occasions and train the syudents for special performances.
    At present, I am also one of the certified Cambridge Speaking Examiiner and since my school is a Cambridge Examination Centre, we do conduct Cambridge endorsed programs.
  • Primary School Teacher (Jun, 2008–Jul, 2010) at Ministry of Education Singapore
    I was a mainstream Teacher with one of the Primary schools (Government), teaching core subjects English, Math and Science to Grade 2-3 students. There I was part of the Laibrary commitee and Editorial Team too.
  • Head of Department (Jun, 2000–Dec, 2007) at Rainbow Centre
    I was a trained Special Educator in charge of Early Intervention Program that was run by the Organization. I was teaching special needs students who were 1-7 years of age. being the head I had to mentor the team of teachers under the Dept. I had also worked with students who were in the ASD and students with physical needs before and after my training / study period.

Education

  • Business English Teacher Training (Oct, 2021–Dec, 2021) from Asian school of teachers
  • TEFL (Jul, 2021–Sep, 2021) from Asian College of Teachers,
  • B Applied Science (Disability Studies) (Feb, 1998–Dec, 2000) from Flinders University, Adelaide

Fee details

    ₹400–600/hour (US$4.72–7.07/hour)

    Depends on the timing and Grade level of the student

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