Experience

Centro Educativo Piaget

• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Language Arts High School Teacher

  • Aug 2019 - Present

  Centro Educativo Piaget, Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico.• Plan and deliver English lessons for grades 7-12 in a private high school in Merida, Mexico. • Student’s level of English proficiency ranged from intermediate to advanced. Responsibilities included: o Planning and giving English lessons to students with a wide range of personalities and academic needs.o Establishing supportive relationships with students on both an individual and group level.o Helping students realize and strive for the actualization of their potential.o Managing classrooms ranging from 16-36 students.o Defusing and properly managing disruptive students. o Creating weekly, semesterly and yearly teaching plans.o Creating, invigilating, and grading exams.o Planning and animating extra-curricular school activities and events.o Conducting online live classes via Google Meet due the COVID-19 global pandemic.



VIPKid

• United States
• E-Learning Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• VIPKID English Teacher

  • May 2019 - Present

  • Teaching English to students living in China through an online video chatting platform.• Students typically range from 4-12 years old and possess varying levels of English proficiency.• Typical lessons include guiding students through PowerPoint-like presentations that include vocabulary, reading and math exercises while also encouraging and engaging students in open discussion. • Teaching English to students living in China through an online video chatting platform.• Students typically range from 4-12 years old and possess varying levels of English proficiency.• Typical lessons include guiding students through PowerPoint-like presentations that include vocabulary, reading and math exercises while also encouraging and engaging students in open discussion.



Pat Roberts Developmental Centre- WIAIH

• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Animator

  • Jun 2017 - Aug 2020

  • Animator at a recreational summer camp for children with severe autism and/or an intellectual handicap as a part of the West Island Association for the Intellectually Handicapped (WIAIH).• Animate various activities throughout the day and ensure the safety of all participants (ages 12-21).• Work collaboratively with colleagues to promote a successful, safe and enjoyable summer for all participants and staff.• Follow COVID-19 guidelines to protect ourselves, campers and staff while consistently promoting good hygiene habits among our campers.

• Camp Director

  • Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  West Island Association for the Intellectually Handicapped (WIAIH), Pointe-Claire, QC. • Under the direction of Ms. Tracy Wrench.• Led and directed a summer day camp for children with severe autism and/or intellectual disabilities who cannot successfully integrate into other regional day camps.Responsibilities included: • Researching and implementing safe, creative and constructive camp conditions aimed at promoting the development and recreation of all campers. • Interviewing, hiring and training staff and volunteers.• Supervising and acting as a role model for staff and volunteers while providing relevant and timely constructive feedback.• Becoming extremely familiar with the specific needs and interests of all campers and cater to them accordingly. • To communicate regularly with parents and caregivers regarding camp related issues.• To communicate and collaborate with the “Centre de Rehabilitation de l’Ouest de l’Ile de Montreal” (CROM) liaison staff and educators with the objective of consistently meeting the needs of our campers.



Fondation de l'hôpital général juif - Jewish General Hospital Foundation

• Canada
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Research Coordinator (Dunkley Lab)

  • Sep 2017 - Aug 2019

  Research Coordinator Lady Davis Institute; Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry (ICFP), Montreal, QC.• Worked under the direction of Dr. David Dunkley. • Coordinated and was responsible for the success of two large scale research projects:• Project 1 (Feedback Study; 2017-2019): We assessed the efficacy of an innovative daily diary intervention program that provided participants with their own individualized explanatory conceptualizations of appraisals and coping mechanism tendencies that contribute to the development and maintenance of their lower mood. • Project 2 (Emotion Regulation Study; 2017-2018): A three-wave longitudinal study that examined emotion (dys)regulation measured through retrospective, experience sampling and daily diary methodologies as potential mediating strategies linking self-critical perfectionism and anxiety and depressive symptoms.• Responsibilities included: • Overseeing and coordinating the daily operations of each major research study. • Played an instrumental role in important lab decisions such as forming studies’ research design and selecting its measures and procedures.• Managing, training and mentoring a team of undergraduate students involved in data collection. • Providing updates in lab meetings regarding the progress of each research study. • Contacting, scheduling appointments and delivering in-person data collection sessions of over 200 participants. • Tracking the progress of over 200 participants throughout the course of the study. • Creating, entering data and cleaning SPSS datafiles used by lab members to create research suitable for publication.• Conduct analyses of research data used by Dr. Dunkley to make important lab decisions.



McGill University

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant (Dunkley Lab)

  • Sep 2016 - Aug 2017

  • Worked under the direction of Dr. David Dunkley and Julie Prud’homme (Lab Coordinator).• Was responsible for contacting, scheduling appointments and running in-lab data collection sessions with 152 participants in the second year of the aforementioned three-year longitudinal study. • Worked under the direction of Dr. David Dunkley and Julie Prud’homme (Lab Coordinator).• Was responsible for contacting, scheduling appointments and running in-lab data collection sessions with 152 participants in the second year of the aforementioned three-year longitudinal study.



Montreal Institute of Swimming

• Canada
• Spectator Sports
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Swim Instructor

  • May 2013 - Aug 2017

  • Mentored and trained new swim instructors to provide dynamic and effective swimming lessons to children of all ages.• Provided the necessary tools and support for new instructors to experience a smooth transition into an independent work environment.• Gave goal-oriented private swimming lessons to students ranging in age from 2-12 years old. • Mentored and trained new swim instructors to provide dynamic and effective swimming lessons to children of all ages.• Provided the necessary tools and support for new instructors to experience a smooth transition into an independent work environment.• Gave goal-oriented private swimming lessons to students ranging in age from 2-12 years old.

• Research Assistant (Heath Lab)

  • Sep 2015 - Apr 2016

  UCOPE Study, DAIR research lab, McGill University, Montreal, QC• Worked under the direction of Dr. Nancy Heath.• Responsibilities included: • Collecting data in McGill lecture halls for a study that investigated coping mechanisms used by first year university students during their transition to university. • Entering participant’s responses into a Master SPSS datafile.StressOFF Study, DAIR research lab, McGill University, Montreal, Qc• Worked under the supervision of PhD candidate Amy Shapiro.• Involved in a study that examined the effects of an experimental mindfulness stress-management program in English high schools across the island of Montreal.• Responsibilities involved travelling to local high schools and collecting data in classrooms across four different time points. DAIR research lab, McGill University, Montreal, QC.• Worked under the supervision of PhD candidate Melanie Joly.• Responsibilities included: • Conducting a literature review that identified 20 qualitative studies relevant to non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents. • The methods, results, strengths and weaknesses of each article were assessed and summarized into an excel sheet which was later used by Melanie Joly as an aid in the development of her doctoral dissertation.