Maria Simkova

Maria

Šimková

Academic Writing Expert
English Teacher

Profile

Certified English Teacher with 10 years of experience teaching children and adults both one-on-one and in groups.

IELTS expert (IELTS overall band 8.5), author of academic writing courses for students and teachers.

Personal Info

Phone: +420605261768
Email: simkova.maria.a@gmail.com

Skills

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Development of curriculum
  • Individual and group counseling
  • Informal and Formal Assessments
  • Classroom management
  • Ability to give constructive feedback
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Project management
  • Proficient in Word, PowerPoint, Zoom, Skype
  • Advanced user of online educational platforms and tools, e.g. Google Classroom
  • Public speaking and presentation
  • Sensitivity towards cultural differences

Languages

  • Russian: Native speaker
  • English: C2
  • Czech: B2

Work Experience

Director of Studies

Valeria Klimova ESL | Sep 2020 – Jul 2021

  • Responsibilities included creating academic writing courses, developing educational programmes and materials for the courses as well as managing the education process.
  • Additional duties: creating educational and promotional content for social media (webinars, workshops, Instagram posts etc.)

Academic Writing Expert

Valeria Klimova ESL | Mar 2020 – Sep 2020

  • Analysed and corrected students' academic essays
  • Developed materials for an academic writing course
  • Mentored and trained new tutors

Freelance English Tutor

Self-employed | Jan 2016 – Jun 2021

  • Performed needs analysis and developed personalised programmes for adult learners
  • Planned and delivered classes in General English, Business English and English for specific purposes one-on-one and in small groups
  • Combined various English teaching methods and techniques to help students improve their results

English Teacher

Star Talk | Sep 2015 – Jan 2016

The responsibilities included:

  • Teaching English to adult learners both in groups and individually (Communicative approach)
  • Carrying out proficiency assessment and advising on a suitable language course
  • Lesson planning
  • Students assessment
  • Completing classroom documentation

English Teacher

Юниум | Aug 2012 – Dec 2015

The responsibilities included:

  • Teaching English to schoolchildren using the communicative approach
  • Carrying out proficiency assessment and advising on a suitable language course
  • Lesson planning
  • Students assessment
  • Completing classroom documentation
  • Communication with students' parents

Certificates

IELTS (Band 8.5)

British Council, IDP Education, Cambridge Assessment English

Aug 2020

TKT Modules 1, 2, 3 (Band 4)

Cambridge English Language Assessment

Jun 2014

Teaching Russian as a foreign language

Moscow State Linguistic University

Jun 201

Education

PhD, English Linguistics

Masaryk University | Sep 2016 - Current

Publications:

  • ŠIMKOVÁ, Maria. Attitude and Graduation as resources of masculinity construction in YouTube vlogs (in press). Brno Studies in English. Masarykova univerzita, 2021, roč. 2021. ISSN 0524-6881.
  • ŠIMKOVÁ, Maria. Hegemonic and Inclusive Masculinities in American and Czech YouTube Vlogs. Academic Journal of Modern Philology (AJMP). Wrocław: College for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Wrocław, 2019, roč. 8, č. 1, s. 183-190. ISSN 2299-7164.

Master's Degree, Theory and methods of teaching foreign languages and cultures

Moscow State Linguistic University | Sep 2010 - Jun 2015