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Kristen T. Phillips 1108 Wharton Drive Newark, DE 19711 610 - 751- 4479 kphillips03@hotmail.com http://www.udel.edu/fllt/grads/ktphil OBJECTIVE     To obtain a full-time teaching position in French. EDUCATION  Masters of Foreign Language Pedagogy - French, The University of Delaware, Newark, DE. May                           2003.Granted a teaching assistantship and chosen to participate in year-long teaching exchange with a                           university in Caen, France. M.A. Pedagogy Exam: Passed with High Honors. GPA. 3.0/4.0                       Bachelor of Arts in French Education, with FLES option. The University of Delaware, Newark, DE.                          May 2000. Foreign language methods courses and placement experiences in secondary and elementary                          education. Student teaching semester targeting both age groups. Excellence in Student Teacher Award.                          Magna Cum Laude. GPA 3.9                       Study Abroad : La Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III, Fall Semester 1998.                         Program sponsored by the Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures at U. of DE. Lived with                          a French host family in Paris. All courses taught by native speakers. Frequent group excursions within                          France and personal travel throughout Europe. TEACHING EXPERIENCE                         French Teaching Assistant: The University of Delaware, Newark, DE  (2000/01, 2002/03).                          Currently team teaching with UD faculty in intermediate French courses; 4 semesters. Responsibilities                           include preparing daily lesson plans from a team-created syllabus, preparing and scoring assessment                           measures of all types: oral, written, discrete point, and holistic, supplementing textbook resources, evaluating                           the course and making improvements to the syllabus. 2000/01, worked in the Foreign Language Media                           Center helping faculty and students with educational technology.                          English as a Foreign Language Teacher: The University of Caen, France. (2001/02)                          Taught English as a foreign language for both the Dept. of English and for the university’s medical school;                           solely responsible for all aspects of courses taught. These included Oral Expression in English for first-year                           English majors and English for third-year medical students. Gained valuable insight into targeting a                           specific: language skill: oral production, teaching a foreign language through content material: using                           medically-related articles, advertisements, videos, and scenarios, and teaching language for a specific                           language need: medical assessment and treatment.                          French Teacher: Bayard Elementary School, Wilmington, DE. (Summer 2001)                          Taught a six-week summer foreign language immersion camp sponsored by the DE DOE and funded by a                           federal grant. Extensive curriculum development and organization, lesson planning, and development of                           pedagogical materials specifically targeted to the elementary-aged language learner. Submission of materials                           to DE Dept. of Education for use in national conference on foreign language education and grant renewal.                       FLES Student Teacher: Townsend Elementary School, Appoquinimink School District, Townsend, DE.                          (March – May 2000). Taught French in a pilot program for first-graders. Participated in curriculum and                          materials development as well as student assessment. Submitted lesson plans and observations to UD                          faculty who presented the program at a national conference.                        Secondary Ed. Student Teacher: Cab Calloway School for the Arts, Red Clay School District,                           Wilmington, DE. (January – March 2000). Taught French I, II, III, IV courses in a magnet school for the                            performing and creative arts. My team teacher was hired to revamp the school’s fledgling French program,                            therefore my experience included extensive curriculum planning, entrance and exit skills assessment, and                            remedial instruction in addition to the daily duties of a teacher..  PROFESSIONAL  DEVELOPMENT     •Currently developing a placement exam for incoming French students at The        University of Delaware as an independent study project sponsored by the French and        Foreign Language Pedagogy faculty and mentored by the sequence supervisor of UD’s        beginner and intermediate French programs.                          •Completed a Multimedia Literacy course for educators during my M.A studies. Created a                            Multimedia presentation promoting study abroad programs and wrote a research paper on the                            rights of professional educators to use Internet resources. Both projects are on the Internet and                            linked to this website.                        •Wrote follow-up evaluations of pilot programs for elementary-aged foreign language learners.                        •Attended workshops at the Northeast Conference for Foreign Language Teachers, April 2000                        •Interned and then worked seasonally for Inlingua, a language training and translation firm with                          offices in DE and PA. Duties included teaching ESL and proofreading English/French                          translations, and culminated in the creation of a PowerPoint presentation on the need for and the                          potential benefits of FLES programs in the U.S.    CERTIFICATION:   French K-12 : PA, MD, DE   SKILLS:  Language: Bilingual English /French.                 Computers: Proficient user of Windows operating system, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, the Internet.                                     Experience with Netscape Composer, Excel, Adobe, Photoshop, Macintosh.    HONORS    Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society                  Pi Delta Phi, French Honor Society                  Dean’s List – all semesters   REFERENCES Available upon request.