Директор на Центарот за Јазици

Mr.Henry Bryan Dixon

Dzumajska 22 Kozle 1000 Skopje, Macedonia Tel: +389 70 691 203 Email: henrybd@yahoo.com

Born: October 10, 1963 Montréal, Canada USA citizen

EDUCATION

1998 to 2001 Graduate Studies (part time)
Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

• Courses: Spanish Composition and Oral Expression 1, Spanish Translation and Interpretation, Spanish Prose 1; Social Foundations of Education, Advanced Educational Psychology

1993 to 1994 MASTER OF ARTS, June 1994, in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics
University of East Anglia, Norwich, England

1990 (Spring) Graduate Studies (part time)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.

• Courses: Teaching Writing (K -12), Sociolinguistics
• Courses: (1987 to 1988): Chinese 1, Chinese 2, Chinese Literature of the Sixteenth Century

1982 to 1986 BACHELOR OF ARTS, May 1986, in English Literature
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.

WORK EXPERIENCE

September 2004 to present
Director of the Language Center
South East European University, Tetovo, Macedonia

November 2001 to August 2004
ELT Advisor to the Language Center
South East European University, Tetovo, Macedonia

Visiting Lecturer, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.

• As part of a team of English language teaching advisors on the USAID funded US-Macedonia Linkage Project, working with local staff to establish the Language Center of South East European University. Main responsibilities include hiring and training English teaching staff, designing and overseeing the implementation of curricula, selecting and purchasing course materials, and training and working with administrative staff. Currently teaching a course in English Language Teaching Methodology to third-year students in the Teacher Training Faculty.

September 1998 to November 2001
Student Support and ESL Specialist
Pennsylvania Migrant Education Program, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

• Advising and working with secondary school English as a Second Language (ESL) and content area teachers on ways to accommodate the needs of non-English speaking pupils in their classes; advising and working with migrant students and their families regarding their educational rights and responsibilities; teaching ESL to children in kindergarten through tenth grade in the Migrant Education Summer School.

January and Teacher Trainer and Course Administrator (June/July 1998)
Intensive 4-week TEFL Certification Program, Centro de Estudios Interamericanos

• Designing, teaching on, and administering intensive, month-long teaching certification programs in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL).

March 1997 to December 1997
Language Instructor
Centro de Estudios Interamericanos, Cuenca, Ecuador

• Teaching general English language classes to adults.

October 1996 to January 1997
Language Instructor
Universidad Católica de Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

• Teaching general English classes to undergraduate students.

October 1995 to February 1996
Language Instructor
Canadian-American International School, Zhaoqing, People’s Republic of China

• Assisting in the establishment of the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program for children in Kindergarten through eighth grade; teaching EFL to third, fifth, sixth and eighth grade pupils.

September 1994 to June 1995
Language Instructor
Durham Technical Community College, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.

• Teaching intensive ESL courses to adult immigrants; administering placement tests to and interviewing incoming students.

August 1992 to June 1993
Language Arts Instructor
Anglo-American International School, Sofia, Bulgaria

• Teaching sixth, seventh, and eighth grades.

September 1991 to July 1992
Test Center Supervisor
Prague, Czechoslovakia

• Running the regional testing center; organizing the supervising the administration of all available Educational Testing Service (ETS) standardized tests, including TOEFL, GRE, and SAT; administering the Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB).

October 1990 to July 1992
Language Instructor and Program Director (1991-1992)
English Courses, University of Agriculture, Prague, Czechoslovakia

• Teaching EFL to undergraduate students; as program director, supervising the scheduling of classes, the hiring of new teaching staff, and the maintenance of teaching material and records.

September 1988 to June 1989
Language Instructor
Xi’an Foreign Languages University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China

• Teaching EFL to first year undergraduates in the Tourism Department.