Aleksandr Pronin, Teacher, Teacher trainer, Learning Designer

Tbilisi, Georgia

+995595474469

hamekoski@gmail.com

linkedin.com/in/alexander-pronin-85507a73a

Summary:

• 20+ years of experience in adult education, teacher development, learner experience design and curriculum design.

• 7+  years of experience as self-employed/freelance;  good self-leadership skills; can work independently and in a team.

Key skills:

• Teaching, teacher-training, learning design, knowledge sharing, curriculum design.
• Public speaking, storytelling and creative writing, narrative analysis.
• Video-editing, image-editing (Photoshop, Articulate Storyline, Camtasia, Sony Vegas); UX Design, Figma, Adobe XD.

Education, training, certifications:

• 1999 – State Pedagogical University, St-Petersburg, Russia (Teacher of Physics and English)
• 2008 – Cambridge TKT, Band 4.
• 2011 – Teaching Writing, online, US Dept. of State
• 2015 – Creative Writing, online, University of Iowa
• 2021 – GMAT, overall score – 690; 94 percentile in the Verbal Section
• 2022 – Google UX Design Professional Certificate, Google on Coursera
• 2023 – Visual Design using Adobe Photoshop – Adobe Certified Professional
• 2023 – Google Project Management Professional Certificate, Google on Coursera
• 2023 – Python Core by JetBrains Academy

Experience:

2022 – 2023 Senior ESP trainer at ‘English by Yandex.Practicum’ (English for software developers). 

• Took part in launching the pilot project in English for IT specialists.
• Selected and modified suggested instructional materials for more effective skill gap closure with respect to the needs of IT practitioners in an international working environment.
• Conducted classes and provided feedback on the usability and effectiveness of the course materials and procedures.

2018 – 2022 Curriculum designer, learning experience designer, teacher of English; self-employed.

• Developed and implemented curricula for groups and individuals aimed at boosting communication skills in English.
• Designed meaningful learner experiences built around authentic video narratives.

2017 – 2018 Designed a multi-level online English language course; freelance.

• Conducted competitors’ audit, created user journey maps, designed functional features of the future product, selected the input material.
• Compiled lists of requirements for the IT developers to implement in the form of interactive activity templates; checked the templates for functionality.
• Uploaded the content to the web platform using the tools and mark-ups created by the developers.

2017

• Translated a collection of scientific (Physics, Chemistry, Measurements) reports from laboratories and subsidiaries of the Research Institute of Metrology.

2014 – 2017 Curriculum designer, learner experience designer, trainer; self-employed. 

• Designed and delivered group-set educational experiences for raising self-awareness through narrative practices.
• Designed and delivered public workshops dedicated to more satisfying and productive approaches to learning English.

2007 – 2014 Director of studies, teacher of English; a private language school. 

• Built a strong team of teachers with shared attitudes and values.
• Designed and facilitated teacher-training workshops on implementing modern educational approaches to teaching.

2002 – 2007 Teacher of English; a private language school. 

• Achieved the highest client retention rate among the staff in both adult and teenager groups.