Teaching

Professional

Intensive English Program Instructor

English Language Institute, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
August, 1996-August, 1999.

Taught international students enrolled in eight-week intensive sessions.
Taught all core skills (reading, writing, speaking and structure) and all levels
(beginner to advanced).

• Taught reading through skills such as skimming, scanning, prediction and so on;
• Taught a course based on the Holocaust and Elie Wiesel's Night in the highest level of Reading and Writing.
• Taught writing through a process approach of freewriting to final revision;
• Taught speaking through a communicative syllabus.
• Participated in preview, selection and development of curriculum materials.
• Assisted in testing and placement of new students each session.
• Taught integrated-skill optional courses such as American culture, Pronunciation, TOEFL preparation and Web Page Design.
• Responsible for syllabus design for each core and optional course.
• Served as coordinator for the structure curriculum.
• Taught speaking and writing courses in external programs designed specifically for EFL groups from countries such as Brazil, Korea and Japan.
• Taught academic writing skills to international graduate students.
• Taught Teaching methods in the International Teaching Assistant Program (ITAP)
• Evaluating SPEAK tests and micro-teaching in ITAP.
• Supervised MATESL students doing internships in the English Language Institute.
• Participated in extracurricular student activities as an adjunct to the language learning/taught process.
• Advised students from all areas of the world.
  
• Served as coordinator of the the English Language Institute's Lab and Resource Center.

EFL Instructor

Gymnazium Tetovo, Macedonia. August, 1995-June, 1996

Fellow, the Soros Foundation Professional English Teaching Program

• Designed syllabi consisting of integrated skills (reading, writing, speaking, structure) for high school native Albanian speaking and native Macedonian speaking EFL students.
• Taught beginners to upper-intermediate.
• Initiated an English language student newspaper, and advised students in all areas of the newspaper.
• Wrote a grant proposal for funding for the newspaper.

EFL Instructor

Gymnazium Bohumin, the Czech Republic, August, 1993-June, 1995

Fellow, the Soros Foundation Professional English Teaching Program

• Used ESL Communicative Competence principles.
• Designed and implemented advanced speaking course syllabi.
• Proposed and supervised the restructuring of students into groups based on ability levels--the first such program in any Czech Gymn½zium.
• Designed and administered the placement test.
• Monitored students' progress under the new structure.
• Participated in Faculty meetings and informal methodology discussions.
• Participated in extracurricular activities with students.
• Acted as chaperon on an international trip to Switzerland and France.

EFL Instructor

Gymnazium Hrabuvka, Ostrava, the Czech Republic, August, 1992-June, 1993

• Developed syllabi for integrated courses.
• Designed and taught upper-intermediate speaking courses.

Business English Course Instructor

Minet Insurance, Inc. Ostrava, The Czech Republic, September 1992 to June 1994

Designed a basic course in business English for a small adult Czech group working in an international company.

EFL Instructor

Ostrava, The Czech Republic, October 1993 to June 1994

Designed and taught a survival English course to Vietnamese adult beginners.

Workshops/Seminars

Technology Training

Designed and delivered 3-hour courses for University of Alabama Faculty, at various times at the Faculty Resource Center:

Acrobat 3.0/4.0

(http://susanlucas.com/acrobat.pdf)

Teaching points include creating pdf files through primary programs and then modify files by adding multimedia, forms and annotation.

(http://susanlucas.com/dreamweaver)

This seminar covers the basics of building a web site with Macromedia DreamWeaver. Participants are introduced to basic web page construction, including adding tables, text and multimedia.

(http://susanlucas.com/dreamweaver)

This seminar covers the advanced features of DreamWeaver, including Cascading Style Sheets, Templates, and Library items.

(http://susanlucas.com/HTML)

An introduction to hard-coding web pages. Instruction includes tables, multimedia and text manipulation.

(http://susanlucas.com/HTML)

Learning objectives include tables for page layout, cascading style sheets, forms, frames and the head elements.

A basic overview of what elements WebCT has to offer and how best to teach with these elements.

Participants learn how to add content, modify the syllabus and calendar, change the look and feel of the course and work with the grade book.

More in-depth knowledge of WebCT including the creation of quizzes and tests and the management of students and teaching assistants.

(http://susanlucas.com/introweb/index.html)

Participants are introduced to the basics of making a web page, including technology vocabulary, program basics, and equipment needed.

(http://susanlucas.com/pedagogy/index.html)

This workshop discusses implementation, as well as the constraints and benefits involved in online instruction.

(http://susanlucas.com/ftp/ftp.html)
The theory and practice of File Transfer Protocol

The basics and more advanced elements of using web browsers effectively.

The DreamWeaver workshops modified for online delivery.

The HTML workshops modified for online delivery.

Other Workshops

(http://susanlucas.com/shelton) presented to Shelton State Community College Faculty Inservice, February 22, 2002.

presented to the Minority Journalism Workshop at the University of Alabama, July 16, 2001. Two-hour seminar on the basics of making a web site graphically pleasing and appealing to a large audience.

November, 2000 for Tuscaloosa Dietetic Association.

presented to the Alabama Scholastic Press Association Summer Camp, July, 2000.

English Language Institute, 1998-1999. A six-week course on the basics of HTML coding, taught multiple times.