Me! Resume, C.V.

Portfolio building…

Hopefully this will become an accessible online professional documentation of career-related milestones.

As a beginning, below is a current-as-of-July-2008 resume and qualifications list:

Holly Dilatush  

 

holly@dilatush.com    http://www.abavirtual-learningcenter.org; http://blogblossoms.edublogs.org  

2575 Milton Hills Drive Charlottesville, VA  22902

home: (434) 295.9716  cell: (434) 960.7177

 

 

    Whatever Holly Dilatush sets her mind to, she does with compassion, dedication, very high standards, and a fine balance of fierce idealism and grounded pragmatism; she is a communicator, a networker, and a contributor to every group or community she joins.”                       (Pat Russo, Ph.D., Oswego; reference letter quote)

                      

 

Profile:     Creative, efficient, resourceful, competent lifelong learner with multi-faceted professional experience, including:

 

2007 – ongoing:  Private tutor adult learners: pronunciation, cultural awareness, business English, writing, test preparation, more – online and face-to-face

 

2001 – 2007:  Distance Learning and Volunteer Coordinator, Instructor of various ESL classes; Charlottesville City Schools Adult Education Program, Charlottesville, VA

 

2004 – 05:  Visiting Professor of English, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, South Korea

 

2002 – 03:  Elementary ESOL Teacher, Albemarle County Schools, Charlottesville, VA

 

2000 – 01:  Program Coordinator/Administrative Project Assistant, Office of African-American Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

 

1975 –2000: Multiple jobs and experiences: insurance claims representative and supervisor; floral shop owner and designer; weekly newspaper office manager; teachers’ assistant; active volunteer in various service organizations

 

EDUCATION    

 

Graduate work:

·         Currently completing Masters of Adult Education and Training Program,  University of Phoenix Online, current GPA 3.87

·         Partial coursework with SUNY Oswego, University of Virginia, Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center

·         TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Principles and Practices of Online Teaching Certificate, Leadership courses

·         Multiple professional development conferences, seminars, workshops, courses

 

BS Education and English Literature, December, 1998 summa cum laude,

 State University of New York, Oswego, NY  GPA 3.87


Holly Dilatush

    Holly@Dilatush.com    http://www.abavirtual-learningcenter.org

    2575 Milton Hills Drive, Charlottesville VA 22902

    home: (434) 295.9716    cell: (434) 960.7177

         

I am a creative, efficient, resourceful, competent, enthusiastic lifelong learner with multi-faceted professional ESOL-related experience

 

Ø  Instructor, facilitator, online English practice using Moodle course management systems and WiZiQ web-based platform

 

Ø  Facilitator, weekly English Conversation group, International Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2007

 

Ø  Board member, Virginia Association for Adult and Continuing Education (VAACE), 2006 – ongoing

 

Ø  Producer and storyteller for Charlottesville Public Access TV program, Tales from Around the World

 

Ø  Piloted several online course management systems for English conversation classes, used with blended classes, meeting face-to-face twice weekly, online additional times per week, 2005 – ongoing

 

Ø  Directed a group of fourteen Korean students in the planning, choreography, pronunciation, practice and performance of a partial rendition of the musical Grease, Catholic University of Korea, 2005

 

Ø  Successfully completed TESOL’s Principles and Practices of Teaching ESL Online Certificate, 2007

 

Ø  Piloted a successful English conversation class designed specifically for older adult students at The Catholic University of Korea, 2005

 

Ø  Developed and implemented Dialogue Café, an intentional space and time for English Speakers of Other Languages adult learners to meet and converse with native English speakers, sharing cultures, asking and answering questions and networking resources, celebrating diversity, improving listening skills in a friendly and supportive environment, 2003 – ongoing

 

Ø  Presented at several conferences: regarding Dialogue Café, Volunteering programs, Distance Learning programs and more 2004 – ongoing

 

Ø  Published articles relating to piloted programs and lesson planning

 

Ø  Actively participated in several of TESOL’s 2004 through 2008 pre-conference Electronic Village Online class opportunities

 

Ø  As volunteer coordinator for Charlottesville City Schools Adult Education program, instituted orientation/information sessions for incoming volunteers, drafted program’s first Volunteer Handbook, coordinated volunteer recruitment, retention and recognitions; program’s volunteer database grew from 19 to over 75, 2003 – 2007

           

Ø  ESL instructor, classes and one-to-one tutoring, face-to-face and online, public and private – ESL Writing, Pronunciation, Conversation, Workplace Literacy, English for Specific Purposes, GED

 

Ø  ESOL teacher, Albemarle County Schools, Kindergarten through third grade, 2002 – 2003

 

Ø  ESL tutor, volunteer, International Rescue Committee – family tutor for three newly-arrived refugees from Afghanistan ~ no formal education in their native Dari language,   2002 – ongoing

 

Ø  ESOL Volunteer, Teaching Resource Center, University of Virginia; Literacy Volunteers of America, International Center, others

 

“No matter what our attempts to inform, it is our ability to inspire that will turn the tides.”