August 25, 2004: Headlines: COS - Ethiopia: Secondary Education: African Studies: Governance: Economics: History: Personal Web Site: RPCV Jason Mosley successfully designed and taught daily, weekly, and yearly ESL lesson plans for 135 Ethiopian grade 10 students

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RPCV Jason Mosley successfully designed and taught daily, weekly, and yearly ESL lesson plans for 135 Ethiopian grade 10 students

RPCV  Jason Mosley successfully designed and taught daily, weekly, and yearly ESL lesson plans for 135 Ethiopian grade 10 students

RPCV Jason Mosley successfully designed and taught daily, weekly, and yearly ESL lesson plans for 135 Ethiopian grade 10 students

Jason Mosley

5 Blakeney Close

London, England

NW1 0BR

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Qualifications Summary

Graduate coursework in African governance & politics, economic development, and history. Work experience and training in ESL instruction, curriculum design, and testing methodology in Africa and in the USA. Proficient with MS Office suite. Familiar with MS Development environment, Visual Source Safe, and MS FrontPage. Basic skills in Python, Perl, and Html. Conversational in Amharic, fair in French, Spanish, and Modern Standard Arabic.

Education and Training

* M.A. African Studies, 2004 (expected), University of London, School for Oriental and African Studies, London, England.

* Additional graduate coursework in African history, University of Maryland (College Park), 2002-3. B.A. Linguistics and History, 1997, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.

* Peace Corps Training, Ethiopia (6/97 - 2/99)

Intensive training in TESL, community development, Amharic language and cross-culture. Additional training in small project design and management, gender awareness and understanding, feedback technique, and community content-based instruction.

Internships/Voluntary Experience

International Alert 6/04 - Present

RESEARCH CONSULTANT London, England

* Researching and writing a 25-page report for the Business & Conflict unit, 'A Profile of Corporate Actors Currently Engaged in the DRC.'

Foreign Affairs (published by the Council on Foreign Relations) 4/02 - 6/03

RESEARCH INTERN Washington, DC

* Assisted with the maintenance of the periodical's web site content. This included data entry, assignment of key words, and ad hoc research.

Experience

United States Peace Corps/Ethiopia 6/97 - 2/99

ESL EDUCATION VOLUNTEER Wereilu, Ethiopia

* Successfully designed and taught daily, weekly, and yearly ESL lesson plans for 135 Ethiopian grade 10 students in a culturally and ethnically diverse setting. Reorganized and updated grade 10 syllabus to incorporate student needs and current health and gender issues. Designed and implemented additional conversational English lessons for 300 students, grades 10-12.

* Planned and facilitated district workshop for 30 primary, junior and senior secondary school teachers to introduce student-centered teaching methodologies and needs evaluation techniques.

PEACE CORPS TRAINER Ambo, Ethiopia

* Modeled ESL teaching methodologies and lesson planning for 38 Peace Corps trainees.

* Successfully taught and encouraged cross-cultural awareness and sensitivity techniques.

Primus Knowledge Solutions, Inc. 7/99 - Present

HOSTING SPECIALIST London, England

* Maintaining and updating enterprise customer implementations of Primus® software on behalf of clients.

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST Washington, DC

* Developed and implemented process for maintaining, testing, and increasing effectiveness of Primus Answer Engine® software on Primus corporate website.

* Responsible for QA and tracking of all lexicon changes, in addition to previous responsibilities.

* As part of original linguist team, responsible for lexicon expansion and enhancement. Participated in project design, documentation and implementation. Developed training materials and facilitated training of new linguists. Designed and maintained linguist intranet resource pages.

Publications

* 2004. 'Gender and Daily Life in Ethiopia.' The Contemporary Review. Vol. 285, No. 1663 (August). 97-101.





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