Maria The Coach
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About Me
My biggest passion in life is languages. Any language is a living unlimited system that allows you not only experience the whole world around you, but to transfer your ideas through words to the message you deliver.
So I've chosen linguistics as my major to be able to learn foreign languages and use them in my life. In 2008 being a junior student I started my career with teaching General & Business English. I've always been result- and student-oriented that's why I applied individual approach not only for every student of mine but to every program I taught. In 2012 I started working as an interpreter and had projects on developing individual programs for ESL learners.
Having 16 years of teaching experience I came to my own teaching method based not on textbooks but on meeting students' needs and personalized content.
What I Do As a Coach
- Analyse your personal needs
- Choose a roadmap that suits you best
- Select materials (individually); that means I’ll look through news articles, TED TALKS, YouTube, TV shows or TV series to quench your thirst for real spoken English
- Adapt the materials to your level, develop the system of communicative activities, grammar tasks, pronunciation tips (only for your personal flaws)
- Grammar is trained in context of the topic under discussion: questions are asked to make you use the grammar we train, thus lead to learning in action
- There’s something outdated in the textbook? We don’t really care, cause we updated it for the context of now
- Revision; if your eyes start twitching at this point, no worries! Revision is on me and done in the most harmless way - a situation where you have to speak using what you’ve learned before. No muss, no fuss, no tests, no stress!
About the Project
The inspiration and the primary reason for this project is my students – over 2.5k different people entrusted me their mind, career, and hopes for future. They showed me how big the gap between theory and practical skills is, that can't be filled with bunch of books.
And as the modern world is fast and we are not limited to just sit in the classroom, there should be the flexibility to build the skill set meeting the concrete needs.
COVID-19 turned us all invert and showed how much could be done online with the right tools and instructions.
Zoom allows to record a lesson, use a whiteboard, screen share materials in just one go. Breakup rooms allow to spend learning time effectively without waiting for your turn to speak, and your coach monitors you at every point. Zoom gives both chats: group and private one (which is handy in any way).
Additional materials: there are quizlet flash cards for training new words, everything we’ve gone through, exercises for both training and revision! And all of that is at your fingertips at any device you prefer!
Train your mind to boost your skill set in a quick intense and effective way! I'm your coach!