DATE OF BIRTH: 02 December 1979

PLACE OF BIRTH:                   Donji Milanovac

EDUCATION

-     Primary   School Vuk Karadžić, Donji Milanovac

-     Secondary   School Mile Arsenijević Bandera, Majdanpek

-     Faculty   of Philology of the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

·           Department of Serbian Language and   Literature, Group 01

·           Completed Master’s degree, thesis in   Serbian language dialectology entitled Submerged   Djerdap Toponyms. Average grade during studies 9.5

FOREIGN   LANGUAGES

                                         READING                 WRITING             VERBAL 

-       English language                      Excellent                           Excellent                           Excellent

KEY   PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

·           Effective classroom management

·           Devising, planning and teaching engaging lessons   appropriate to students’ needs and abilities

·           Ability to easily build rapport so that students feel   comfortable and at ease in the classroom

·           Enthusiastic and ‘’can do’’ teaching attitude

·           Establishing clear objectives for each student and   encouraging them to achieve their full potential

PERSONAL SKILLS

·           Passion for working with children

·           Strong sense of professional responsibility and   dedication

·           People-centred, caring, helpful and kind to individuals

·           Highly motivated, optimistic and energetic

·           Creative, flexible and positive about innovative approaches

·           Creative and musical, dancing as a hobby, playing the   piano

·           Love sport. Former athlete, trained triathlon for five   years (in secondary school and at university), nowadays running daily for   recreation, swimming, rollerblading and dancing whenever an opportunity   arises because I adore it. Every year I take part in the Belgrade Marathon   and I had an excellent score last time, having run 21 kilometres in 1 hour   and 52 minutes.

·           Excellent knowledge of most Microsoft programs and   packages.

·           Excellent knowledge of the Joomla program package for   updating and managing Internet pages.

·           Good knowledge of the Adobe Photoshop program package. 

WORK   EXPERIENCE

Tour guide, Continental Tours

9/1/1998 — 8/31/2002

Belgrade, SRB

-     Worked   as a tour guide during university studies

Teacher of Serbian and English language and literature

9/1/2002 — 2016

-     Primary   School Vuk Karadžić, Donji Milanovac, SRB. I taught Serbian and English in   Primary School Vuk Karadzic, to schoolchildren aged 7 to 14. Very interesting   experience, because my teaching methods varied according to different age   groups, raging from 7 to 14, bearing in mind the 14 year olds were more   mature and required a different approach.

-     Secondary   School Mile Arsenijević Bandera, Majdanpek, Serbia- I taught the Serbian   language there, our mother tongue, and I occasionally taught English to   students ranging from 14 to 19. Despite this experience, I would always, if   given the opportunity to choose, prefer to teach younger children. I have the   impression that my energy is more compatible with children and that, as a   teacher, I show my full potential with them.

-     A   nursery school teacher at Helen Doron in Belgrade, on several occasions, but   in continuation during the period from 2012 – 2014. I enclose a letter of   recommendation from the school principal. This is the school where I   familiarized myself with their method of teaching English to small children   and where, through songs, acting and different visual material, I managed to   combine my knowledge of English with my hobbies. I made a special effort to   make every class different, creative and easy when it came to learning new   words and concepts. My primary concern was to always choose the simplest   method so that the children would respond to it through play, with lots of   laughter, because I firmly believe that children learn faster if the teaching   process is carried out in a positive atmosphere. That is the best method to   teach children new words and expressions spontaneously, and this is also the best   way for children to memorize new teaching material. At that age children   acquire new words at a remarkable speed, so I was on a number of occasions amazed   by their ability to learn new vocabulary so quickly and their ability to   connect certain notions by themselves by being encouraged to do so. It was an   amazing experience in every respect.

-      Taking into consideration the fact that I   was at the same time doing other jobs, of a more administrative nature, the   kind of jobs that adults do for adults, doing my job at the nursery school   simultaneously with my office work has had a great impact on me, having   preserved my youthful spirit and enriched me as a person.

Proofreader, Journalist, Office of Media Relations of   the Government of the Republic of Serbia

10/12/2004 — 2008

Belgrade, SRB

-     Proofreading   all media material for the official website of the Serbian government (announcements,   activities of government members, speeches…)

Freelance work                                                                                           2008— 2012

Giving private tuition in English and Serbian, children aged from 3 to 14, as well as students,   helping    them to write papers,   prepare exams, with practising conversation and similar activities.

Babysitter, part-time   job, mostly at weekends, occasionally of children from foreign countries.   Besides looking after those kids, I also taught them Serbian through English,   taught them about Serbian customs, food, holidays.

Proofreader, copy editor and editor in the publishing   houses: Nova   srpska politička misao,( New Serbian Political Thought) Paideia, Geopoetika,   Mladinska knjiga, Laguna, Algoritam, Ciklopea, Alkemist