Marianne Szymanski
Homeless Project Worker at Threshold Housing Link- Claim this Profile
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French Professional working proficiency
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Japanese Professional working proficiency
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English Native or bilingual proficiency
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Credentials
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Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
TEFL UKJun, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Cardiff Award (Employability Skills Development)
Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddMar, 2018- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Threshold Housing Link
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United Kingdom
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Homeless Project Worker
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Mar 2022 - Present
- Building rapport and trust with service users.- Providing advice on council housing policy, addiction recovery, physical/mental health support, financial planning, and more.- Supporting service users at every stage of their journey from rough sleeping to our resettlement properties to independent living.- Advocating for service users to the council, probation and other agencies.- Planning fundraising events.- Creating and managing social media and website content. - Building rapport and trust with service users.- Providing advice on council housing policy, addiction recovery, physical/mental health support, financial planning, and more.- Supporting service users at every stage of their journey from rough sleeping to our resettlement properties to independent living.- Advocating for service users to the council, probation and other agencies.- Planning fundraising events.- Creating and managing social media and website content.
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English Second Language Tutor
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Jun 2021 - Present
- Teaching groups of 1-4 Japanese children English as a second language, ranging from beginner to fluent.- Creating a fun learning environment in which students feel safe, encouraged, and not afraid to make mistakes.- Swiftly analysing the students’ language ability in the first few minutes of each lesson, and tailoring the level of the rest of the lesson accordingly. - Teaching groups of 1-4 Japanese children English as a second language, ranging from beginner to fluent.- Creating a fun learning environment in which students feel safe, encouraged, and not afraid to make mistakes.- Swiftly analysing the students’ language ability in the first few minutes of each lesson, and tailoring the level of the rest of the lesson accordingly.
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UK JET Programme
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1 - 100 Employee
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Assistant English Teacher
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Aug 2019 - Sep 2021
- Rotated around four elementary schools and three junior high schools.- Had sole responsibility for entire English education of several elementary classes, which included lesson planning, marking, adapting and tailoring the curriculum to my students’ ability and ensuring they met short- and long-term learning goals.- Built trust and rapport with students.- Used ‘self-evaluation’ forms filled out by students at the end of each class along with my own observations in class to identify which areas of English ability were lacking, and planned and implemented strategies to overcome them.
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Education
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Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
Bachelor's degree, French and Japanese -
Chuo University
Japanese language, Japanese literature, gender gap, psychology -
Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III
French, French linguistics, Russian, Mandarin, Ancient Egyptian, Archaeology