Aneri Patel IB English Language and Literature Facilitator
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I started my teaching career with freelance tutoring during my college days. I used to teach English as First/Second language to school students at all levels. I also tutored for IELTS for a short amount of time. After my post graduation, I worked at a college in Pune as a lecturer of English where I taught Modern Literature, Comparative literature, Feminism and Literature, Indian Literature and Elizabethan Age.

My first gig with a school was after this when I worked with an NGO called The Akanksha Foundation where I taught students from underprivileged backgrounds in government schools. I was a secondary English Teacher there. This job was followed by full time freelance tutoring a 10th grader (IGCSE). I taught her English and EVS.
This brings me to my last job which was that of English language and literature facilitator at an IB school in Visakhapatnam where I worked till November last year. I am currently serving a notice period at Victorious Kidss Educares, Pune as an MYP/DP English teacher.

I have the training and knowledge to create lesson plans. I am very creative and I have the ability to create lessons that are interesting enough to capture the attention of the students and to keep them interested in learning more. I have the knowledge to design tests and exams that will help to evaluate how well the students are learning and to make sure they fully understand the lessons before moving on. I am also qualified to put together and supervise a film club or a book and debate team.

I'm an English Language and Literature teacher who is immensely interested in engaging with students. In the times that we are living in, dialogue is becoming increasingly rare and I feel classrooms are one of the few democratic spaces that we need to protect at all costs. I love being in the middle of discussions where new ideas are popping up everywhere around me. I think I teach because it is a way of learning/unlearning for me. I'm a very curious person. Studying literature has made me think and things have never been easy since then. I know it sounds naive but this process of unfolding myself everyday has changed the entire way I look at things and taking on that sheer sense of responsibility as an individual for my own thoughts, ideas and actions ( or not "living in bad faith" as Sartre puts it) has proved to be a double edged sword for me. I'm an avid learner and reader who is always up for a brainstorming session. Since my language of study has been English all my academic life, I never really thought about it as a language I could work upon. It's only when I started developing a reading habit in my late teens that I opened up to the web of words and meanings. Initially, writing to me was scribbling poems (if I may dare to call them that) in the hinterlands that my notebooks were during my high school days. I am that classic example of a middle class Indian student turning to literature from science and well, that's the best decision I ever made. Since then, I have been tilling the grounds of academic writing which involved a lot of research. Cliché is the word that I use for myself because I guess it's very comforting to attempt to be a "thinker" or a "writer" while living in the times that we are living in and one of the things that I'm passionate about is breaking this chain. I am very vigilant about not being a political hobby-ist on the internet and thus falling for the "stranger in the train syndrome" which is cold with convinience. Writing for me is a political act which is paradoxical for allowing the author to be irresponsible and at the same time, vocal. Irresponsibility is in the act of letting go of words the moment you writes it, in a Barthes-ian sense. It's no more yours. It's a text in itself. But that doesn't mean it's apolitical and this is something I strongly abide by while writing. Nothing is apolitical in a polyphonic space. With all of this in mind, I am a teacher who appreciates interaction more than just the teacher speaking. My teaching would always be incomplete without equal participation from the students as I believe that teaching is a two way process where I get to learn as much as the students do.

Subjects

  • English Bachelors/Undergraduate-Masters/Postgraduate

  • IB English Language and Literature IGCSE-Diploma

Experience

  • IB MYP/DP English Language and Literature facilitator (Dec, 2021–Mar, 2022) at Victorious Kidss Educares, Pune
    Taught IBDP English A: Language and Literature to HL/SL students.
    Created mock assessments for MYP5 and DP2 English Language and Literature.
    Provided guidance to DP2 HL students for their HL essay.
    Created interactive lesson plans and unit plans with differentiation to reach every learner in class.
    Designed formative and summative assessments for DP1 students
  • IBDP English Language and Literature facilitator (Jul, 2020–Nov, 2021) at Oakridge international school, Visakhapatnam.
    Taught IBDP English A: Language and Literature and CIE grade 7 and 8.
    Received certification for completing IB English Cat 2 workshop which was conducted online in August 2020.
    Taught English as Second Language to IGCSE students.
    Created much of the curriculum in use for the English Department as it was their first batch of diploma programme.
    Actively engaged with online IB English learning committees to foster curriculum development and student learning.
    Assisted the IBDP coordinator during TOK lessons.
    Conducted Individual Orals for DP2 students.
    Attended child safeguarding program and various other professional development courses offered by the school.
  • Secondary English Teacher (Nov, 2019–Feb, 2020) at The Akanksha Foundation, Pune & Mumbai
    Taught 8th and 9th grade English and Social Studies (Maharashtra State Curriculum).
    Actively experimented with the teaching strategies that I learnt from the training.
    Enabled a regular channel for parents and students to communicate with me.
    Visited the students’ families as part of community visits once every week for holistic understanding of the students.
    Planned and created a curriculum with the goal of making them efficient communicators. The major focus was on improving their linguistic abilities so that English doesn’t hinder them from achieving their life goals.
    Collaborated with fellow teachers for comprehensive sex education sessions for secondary level students.
  • Visiting Faculty (Aug, 2019–Oct, 2019) at M.E.S. Abasaheb Garware College, Pune
    Taught MA (English) students
    Created interactive lesson plans to teach various papers like Elizabethan Age, Indian Literature in English, Modern Age and Drama.
    Evaluated and revised learning materials to best assist the students.
    Collaborated with the resident psychologist to spread awareness on mental health and encourage the students to seek help if needed.

Education

  • MA (Aug, 2017–Apr, 2019) from SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY, PUNE

Fee details

    ₹750–1,500/hour (US$8.84–17.69/hour)

    Classes on weekdays from 9 am to 4 pm for IBDP - 1000/hour
    Classes on weekdays from 6 pm to 10 pm for IBDP - 1200/hour
    Classes on weekends from 10 am to 2 pm for IBDP - 1200/hour
    Classes on weekends from 6 pm to 10 pm for IBDP - 1500/hour

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