Alistair Frame

Experience

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  Educational Institution

  Jul 1994 - Aug 1994

  Camp Counsellor

  Teaching teenage children football, responsible for their care and safety and taking part in Theatre productions.

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  Babcock International Group

  Jun 1995 - Aug 2010

  I.T. Systems Developer

  I.T. Systems Developer, Babcock Integrated Technology (Engineering; I worked in a software development team with 5 others for the award-winning V-bridge content management system, a system which provides the capability to create, control and maintain objects and information on electronic drawings for British Royal Navy ships.

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  TANDEM

  Oct 2010 - Jul 2011

  EFL Teacher

  Telephone and one to one classes, usiness English and presentation skills.

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  Oxford University Press

  Jul 2012 - Jul 2013

  Marking on-line tutorials covering grammar, vocabulary, listening, writing and speaking. Teaching English to the business community, most of the classes with TANDEM were with managers within the Bank of Spain. One to one tuition and teaching English to groups of teenage students.

  • On-line EFL Tutor

    Jan 2013 - Jul 2013

  • EFL Teacher

    Sept 2012 - Jun 2013

  • EFL Teacher

    Jul 2012 - Sept 2012
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  Osborne Clarke

  Feb 2013 - Jun 2013

  EFL Program Director

  Working as a freelance EFL program director, I was given responsibility for developing an EFL teaching program for employees of the law firm.

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  Heriot Watt University

  Jul 2013 - Aug 2013

  Pre-sessional EAP Tutor
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  Kaplan

  Sept 2013 - Apr 2014

  Sessional Tutor

  Full-time IELTS tutor (first 3 months) then Skills for Study tutor (3 months) with 20 contact hours per week. Two classes were Foundation Undergraduate and two other classes for Pre-Masters students. Regular formative and summative assessments covering skills such as Group presentations, Academic discussions, report and essay writing.

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  Heriot-Watt University

  May 2014 - Aug 2014

  Pre-sessional EAP Tutor

  Heriot Watt UniversityFull-time teaching English for Academic purposes for 19 contact hours perweek. Conducting weekly one to one tutorial as well as daily classes of 16 students.First 6 weeks delivering Academic Literacy and Engagement lessons followed by 6 weeksPreparing students to write a mock Master's level Research dissertation.

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  British Council

  Oct 2014 - May 2015

  EFL tutor - Universidad de Alcala de Henares

  Full-time tutor 20 hours contact per week with 3 Upper-Intermediate and one Pre-Proficiency class. Duties included delivering the language program, preparation for FCE and CAE exams and running speaking workshops. Students ranged in age from 13 to 20 years olds approximately.

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  Heriot Watt University

  Jun 2015 - Sept 2016

  Assistant Course Director

  I taught on three In-sessional English courses. Two Foundation courses of ‘Read to Write’ where the aim is to improve a student’s ability to read academic texts and to write effectively in an academic style and develop the ability to read and extract information from a range of academic texts. The third, Background Studies course aims to provide students with an understanding of British culture and institutions and to develop presentation skills.During the summer, my duties involved delivering the University’s pre-sessional summer program over 10 weeks (See May 2014 – Aug 2014). For my personal development as an EAP professor I am currently working on my Associate Fellow portfolio Assessment which involves writing a personal account of my teaching philosophy which is directly related to TEAP competencies. Show less

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  The University of Edinburgh

  Mar 2016 - Sept 2016

  Dissertation Supervisor

  Temporary Contract : To provide support and feedback to 6 students working on their final dissertations for their Msc. in Education.

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  Universidad Europea

  Sept 2016 - Jul 2020

  Course Coordinator EAP/ESP Engineering Course

  Responsible for the development of an ESP course for Engineering students. My classes consisted of a mixed group which typically included a diverse range of disciplines including Aerospace Engineering, Information Technology and Mechanical Engineering students. Assessments in this course include Group presentations, Digital storyboarding, abstract writing, describing engineering processes and writing a Literature review on current topics in the field of Engineering.I also maintained the VLE(Virtual Learning Environment) blackboard system, setting up individual classes, marking coursework and updating the system with learning material.I also worked on a contract to develop an online English for Engineering course with colleague. The course consisted of 120 hours of online teaching with assessments including report writing, individual presentations and project management. Show less

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  The University of Edinburgh

  Aug 2017 - Aug 2017

  ESP tutor - Economics

  ESP teacher (summer course) Edinburgh UniversityResponsible for teaching a 4-week project based EAP course specific to Japanese students from Yokohama University. The course was aimed at developing the students´ communicative competencies through class discussions and seminars, mainly related to Economics topics. There students were also tasked with interviewing the public which led to collating data and delivering a final presentation.

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  University of Stirling

  Aug 2019 - Sept 2019

  EFL tutor

  EFL teacher for the summer program at Stirling University. My focus was on developing language proficiency in developing grammar, fluency and pronunciation with a group of Japanese students.

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  University of Warwick

  Aug 2020 - Oct 2020

  EAP tutor (online)

  Responsible for delivering the TBS (Text based studies) part of the 6-week pre-sessional course at Warwick. A blended learning course using Moodle for the asynchronous work and Microsoft Teams for synchronous live lessons. Assessments included a writing project, an academic presentation and seminar discussion.

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  Northumbria University

  Dec 2020 - Sept 2021

  Module lead for the International Foundation Program (IFP) for Computing and EAP tutor (online)

  Contracted to work for QA at Northumbria University.Module lead for the International Foundation Program (IFP) for Computing delivered fully online using the Blackboard Ultra platform. Responsible for developing the course material and assessments for two 18-week courses geared towards introducing non-native speakers of English to the fundamentals of Information Systems and Computer Programming. Assessments consisted of a computer programming project in Python or Java, a reflection on a portfolio of work, an essay on IT Systems security and a presentation on Information Systems in an organization.In addition to my main position, I was also teaching on IELTS preparation and Academic English courses. Show less

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  Oxford International Education Group

  Mar 2022 - now

  Online IT materials developer/ Moodle developer / Tutor

  Module lead responsible for the development of teaching materials using h5p on a moodle platform for the following online foundation IT course:-Web-based technologies and Digital media.and the following short courses:HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQueryIntroduction to ComputingJavaPython