Molly Exten

Experience

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  Institute of International Education

  Aug 2010 - Jun 2011

  Fulbright English Teaching Assistant

  • Taught English to university students through discussion, short stories, and current events• Facilitated English-language summer camp activities for high school students

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  American University

  Aug 2011 - Dec 2012

  Graduate Assistant

  • Edited the AU TESOL Program newsletter• Prepared and distributed program marketing material• Coordinated setup for workshops, conferences, and other program events• Revised office manuals and procedures

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  ASC English

  Jan 2013 - Aug 2013

  ESL Instructor

  • Taught English courses for academic and general purposes• Provided students with feedback on their performance and progress• Created month-long elective courses on specific topics such as colloquial English expressions and English through film

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  UMass Boston

  Aug 2013 - Jun 2020

  ESL Instructor

  • Taught over 5,000 hours of classroom instruction in grammar, writing, and speaking skills for non-native English speakers• Facilitated classroom activities focused on essential academic skills• Developed curricula to accommodate learners from different cultural, educational, and linguistic backgrounds • Helped students prepare writing portfolios to apply for undergraduate studies at UMass Boston• Created video tutorials to teach video editing skills to non-native English speakers Show less

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  General Assembly

  Feb 2021 - Jul 2021

  • Full-time fellow in an immersive program• Built responsive web applications using HTML, CSS, Javascript, and React with third-party API integration and full CRUD functionalityProjects:• flashy - Flashcard application built with React and Ruby on Rails with a PostgreSQL database. The user interface features a "study" screen and facilitates full CRUD on flashcard decks and their respective entries.• Full Stack Coffee Co. - Collaborative React & Express application that mimics an online shopping site for high-end coffee supplies. Logged in users can post new products, edit and delete them, or add them to a shopping cart.• Red Line Explorer - React application that posts and gets recommendations from users for activities near stations on MBTA’s Red Line. Homepage utilizes CSS grid to render a responsive map of the Red Line that mimics the actual Red Line map• Meal Planner - Vanilla Javascript application that searches a recipe API by ingredient, explores a randomly generated list of recipes from a category, and saves favorite recipes Show less

  • Instructional Associate

    Jun 2021 - Jul 2021

  • Software Engineering Fellow

    Feb 2021 - May 2021
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  Mabl

  Aug 2021 - now

  • Technical Writer

    Jun 2022 - now

  • Technical Support Engineer

    Aug 2021 - May 2022