CURRICULUM VITAE



CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME Sherin DARWISH-SHASH

ADDRESS 621- Katameya Heights,

5th Settlement, New Cairo, Egypt

Tel.: 2757 0891

Mob.: 0100- 119 77 77

email: sherin.shash@

NATIONALITY: Egyptian D.o.B: April 2, 1960 STATUS: Married, 2 sons

EDUCATION

Date Institution Degree

1986 St. Catherine's College, MA Honours

Oxford University, UK Modern Languages

1979-1982 Top Scholarship in Modern BA Honours

Languages, St. Catherine's Modern Languages

College, Oxford University, (Spanish & French)

England

Sept. 1976-1978 Malvern Girls' College 4 "Advanced" Levels

Worcestershire, England 1 "Special" level

Sept. 1975-1976 Malvern Girls' College 7 "Ordinary" Levels

Worcestershire, England

Primary & Secondary Different Schools of French BEPC, Brevet Elémentaire

Education education in various countries Premier Cycle (with

until 1975 distinction in French & English)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Date Employer Position

7/2013 to date AUC, Cairo, Dptmt Instructor

of Rhetoric & Composition

2009 to 2013 High School, Cairo American Full time IB-certified Spanish &

College, Egypt French teacher for grades 9 to 12 & International Baccalauréat (IB)

2011 Cairo American College K-12 Vertical Team

Curriculum coordinator

2007-2009 Cairo American College Full time Spanish teacher and

Middle School, Egypt Subject Area Coordinator

2005-2007 Cairo American College 8th grade English/ French

Middle School, Egypt

2004- 2005 Cairo American College French Teacher /

Middle School, Egypt New InterLinks® course introduced & taught (Interdisciplinary)

2003- 2004 Cairo American College English/French Teacher

Middle School, Egypt

1988- 2003 Cairo American College French Teacher

Middle School, Egypt

1986-1987 Cairo American College French/Spanish Teacher

Middle School, Egypt Middle & High school

1985-1986 Sadat Academy for English Language

Management Sciences Teacher: University level

Cairo, Egypt

ACADEMIC CONSULTING

August 2009 -11 Vertical Team Leader for curriculum Standards & Benchmarks alignment, middle and high schools for French and Spanish; Cairo American College.

June 2007 HAYAH School, 5th Settlement, Cairo, Egypt; Academic Consultant and Teacher Trainer with staff development program (6-12)

May 1998 Evaluator for Foreign Language program (K-12) and trainer for language faculty at the ICARDA International School of Aleppo, Syria, as part of in-depth staff professional development program.

AWARDS

April 1998 Honorable Mention, ISS Innovative Educational Practices Award for "Interdisciplinary Links Project: How to Incorporate an Interdisciplinary Approach through the Teaching of a Modern Language."

March 1993 Friedel & Otto Eberspacher Award for Excellence in the Teaching of a Modern Western European Language.

PUBLICATIONS: Article: Open Letter: a word of Truth; published by Al Ahram Online at  

17 - 23 March 2011, Issue No. 1039, Reader's corner: “He’s the one”

"Wadi Digla", (poem) Heliopolis, The Voice of the Community, Vol 4, May 1999

The Importance of Studying a Modern European Language. International Schools Journal, Autumn 1993, Issue No. 26 (pages 56-61)

WEBSITE for Interdisciplinary rationale:



PRESENTATIONS:

January 23, 2004 Presented conference on interdisciplinary teaching (Gr. 6-12) at the European League Of Middle Level Education, in Barcelona, Spain: “I link, therefore I learn”.

July 26-30, 1998. Presented two workshop sessions on "Interdisciplinary Links" (see below) at the Nuts & Bolts Symposium Of Middle Level Education, in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

April 3, 1998. Presented workshop (Gr. 6-12) in Bangkok, Thailand, for the Near-East Schools Association, (NE/SA): "How to Incorporate an Interdisciplinary Approach through the Teaching of a Modern Language."

Feb. 2, 1996. Workshop presented in Amsterdam, Holland, for the European League for Middle Level Education (ELMLE), "Around the World in 80 days".

May 1987. Academic Seminar, Cairo American College, Cairo, Egypt: "Visions in my rear-view mirror" : using poetry to teach language and culture. (Gr. 8-12)

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

1993 to PRODEC, Permanent translator/interpreter

date- Projects Development Co. Italian/Spanish/French/English

380, Corniche el Nile,

Cairo, Egypt

1995 to Professor Jeff Rosensweig, Free-lance editor for various articles

date- Director, Global Perspectives & books

Program, Goizueta business School

EMORY University, USA

1999. ICARDA Ad hoc editor for the Cairo Bureau of ICARDA, Egypt.

1990-1993 Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture: Ad hoc translator/interpreter French/Spanish/English/

Arabic

1985-1986 Fiat Agri, (Fiat Group Italy), Ad hoc translator/interpreter Cairo Office, Egypt Italian/French/ Spanish /English/

Arabic. Technical Publications & Sales Promotion

Sept. 1985 American University in Cairo Library Assistant

Jan. 1985 American Broadcast Corp. Production Assistant &Press Room

(ABC News), Geneva Informer & Translator for the Switzerland coverage of the Schultz-Gromyko talks on Nuclear Disarmament & SALT II

1984 World Health Organization Editor (French/Spanish/English)

(WHO) Geneva, Switzerland Health & Biomedical Information Program

1983-1984 WHO, Geneva, Switzerland Editor, Division of Environmental Health, Technical Advisory Committee of the Joint FAO/WHO Food Contamination Program Monitoring

1983 WHO, Geneva, Switzerland Ad hoc editor & reviewer, Intersectoral Action for Health Division of Strengthening of Health Services

1982-1983 UNICEF, Geneva Ad hoc translator & Editor, External Relations

LANGUAGES

Speak, read & write excellent French, Spanish English, excellent spoken Arabic. Understand, translate and communicate well in Italian.

COMPUTER PROFICIENCY:

Very proficient in MAC- OS and Windows; word-processing, Information retrieval. Data-base Info, moodle, POLAR…)

COUNTRIES:

Resided in Togo, Liberia, Egypt, Cambodia, Sri-Lanka, India, Switzerland, England, Spain and France. Traveled in Europe, South East Asia, Africa and the United States.

INTERESTS:

Reading on a wide variety of topics, Creative Writing, Slam Poetry (Slam Poetry Club), music, biology and medicine, family, art and museums, history and lately, trying to understand basic finance and chemistry.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & COURSE WORK:

• Strategic Planning in Education; Academy for Leadership in Education- Dr Stephen Barone (NESA Bangkok-1992 & 1995)

• Inquiry based Education Workshop, Cairo, Egypt (March 1997)

• Where Brain Science and Education Meet: a Conversation with Dr Robert Sylwester Brain Development and the adolescent brain: Whole day workshop with Dr Robert Sylwester (NESA-Bangkok-1996)

• Raising Cain; The Pressured Child; Issues on Bullying; by Dr Michael Thompson (NESA-Bangkok-1998)

• Ab Initio Teacher training 5-day workshop for Spanish (IBO organization-Berlin- July 2009)

• Workshop week with Dr Michael Thompson (Cairo American College- Jan. 2010)

• ESL: TESMC Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classes by John Polias: Unlocking the World , Australia (Cairo American College- Aug.-Dec. 2008)

• TOK International Baccalaureat training workshop, Cairo Egypt: (April 2010) by Dennis Oberg

• Memberships: Oxford University Magazine/Catz-Eye (OUP)- -International Schools Journal-Sciences & Vie- New Scientist- Brain Connections- and others

• ECIS (European Council of International Schools) Nice, France Nov. 2012

• STEM/STEAM educational conference, American Universtity in Cairo (AUC), March 2013

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